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Carington Smith, Jack, b. 1908
Prolific mid 20th century painter based in Hobart and Sydney. Jack Carington Smith won numerous awards and prizes including the 1949 Sir John Sulman Prize ...
Cullen, Adam, b. 1965
Adam Cullen delighted in confronting both his fellow artists and the establishment with his works that explored crime, masculinity and cowboy culture through a lens ...
Dobell, William, b. 1899
William Dobell came from a working class family in Newcastle to become one of Australia's most loved artist and the creator of fashionable portraits. He ...
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Giacco, Francis, b. 1955
painter and art teacher. As a portraitist, Giacco is notable for the influence of genre painting which pervades his work. Giacco won the Archibald Prize ...
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Harding, Nicholas, b. 1956
painter, sketcher, printmaker, illustrator and animator. After studying art in the mid 1970s, Harding travelled through Europe, then returned to Australia, where he developed a ...
Lambert, George, b. 1873
Influential painter and illustrator.
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Looby, Keith, b. 1940
Contemporary Sydney painter and illustrator known for his work 'Black-and-White History of Australia.
Macleod, Euan, b. 1956
Euan Macleod is a painter who has exhibited widely in Australia and New Zealand since 1980 and who is in many private and important public ...
Maestri, Guy, b. 1974
Sydney-based painter Guy Maestri won the 2009 Archibald prize for his portrait of Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.
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Molvig, Jon, b. 1923
Apart from being one of Australia's major figurative expressionist painters, Jon Molvig became a significant inspiration for the art scene in Brisbane when he settled ...
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Murch, Arthur James, b. 1902
Painter and sculptor, assistant to George Lambert, and in World War II the War artist who captured images of the bombed city of Darwin. Later ...
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Olsen, John, b. 1928
John Olsen's exuberant paintings, which were first exhibited in Sydney in the 1950s, are often celebrations of Sydney, Majorca, marine life, good food and sunshine. ...
Pidgeon, William Edwin, b. 1909
Popular mid 20th century Sydney cartoonist, illustrator, painter, sculptor and art critic. Pidgeon won the Archibald Prize three times - in 1958, 1961 and 1969, ...
Quilty, Ben, b. 1973
Although he came to public attention with his paintings of cars, Ben Quilty is best known for his deeply impacted expressionist portraits. .For four years ...
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Robinson, William, b. 1936
Queensland artist William Robinson's work ranges from whimsical self portraits to sublime landscapes. In recent years he has turned to a more domestic scale, painting ...
Ruddy, Craig, b. 1968
Craig Ruddy was best known for his striking portraits of Aboriginal Australians. He came to fame after he was awarded the Archibald Prize in 2004 ...
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Shead, Garry, b. 1942
Film maker, cartoonist and Archibald and Dobell Prize winning artist Garry Shead's work is held in most major public collections in Australia. He has created ...
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Smith, Joshua, b. 1905
Painter, predominantly of traditional portraits whose sitters included fellow artist Lloyd Rees. Smith, who also worked as an art teacher, won the Archibald Prize in ...
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Storrier, Tim, b. 1949
In 1968, at age 19, Tim Storrier became the youngest artist to ever be awarded the Sulman Prize. Since then he has gone on to ...
Wann, Harry, b. 1897
Early 20th century caricaturist. Harry worked for The Sun Newspaper as an illustrator until 1952. Contributed to the Reveille front cover page issue December 1934 ...