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Olday, John, b. 1905
Mid 20th century European political painter and cartoonist who lived in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne in the 1950s and 1960s.
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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. ...
Parr, Robert, b. 1923
The construction of Robert Parr's whimsical sculptures in metal and fabric is informed by his original training as an engineer.
Peirce, Augustus Baker, b. 1840
Widely travelled Colonial era American-born sketcher, comic illustrator, caricaturist, painter, scene-painter, professional photographer, sailor, theatrical performer and entrepreneur.
Philp, Michael, b. 1966
Michael Philp is a Minjungbal man, a tribe of the Bundjalung nation. His paintings explore what it is like for younger Aboriginal people today living ...
Porter, Robert Field
A painter, shipowner and merchant, Porter settled down in New Zealand in 1841 after a brief stay in Australia. Exhibited with the Auckland Society of ...
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Preston, Margaret, b. 1875
Margaret Preston specialised in still life subjects, seeking to reinvent the genre, with inspiration from Aboriginal art and Australian native flowers, but she also made ...
Quayle, Jack, b.
Mid 20th century Hobart, Sydney and Adelaide cartoonist.
Radford, Wanda, b. 1896
Illustrator and Cartoonist, 1920s. Radford's subjects were social events like the David Jones' Ball. Appears to withdraw from public life and work in the 1930s
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Reddington, Charles, b. 1929
Chicago-born abstract expressionist painter who has exhibited in Australia and overseas since the 1950s.
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Redgate, Jacky, b. 1955
Sculptor, photographer and installation artist, Jacky Redgate has been exhibiting for over 25 years. Throughout her career she has received a number of grants and ...
Salmon, William, b. 1928
William Salmon described his art as emerging from the landscape. He trained initially in graphic arts at Swinburne Technical College and worked as a textile ...
Scott, James Fraser, b. 1877
A New Zealand born artist who had early success as a student in Europe, then worked as a war artist for Australia before setting up ...
Searle, Ken, b. 1951
A self taught artist, Searle's early paintings celebrated Kangerigars, an Australian mythological hybrid. Later he painted large celebrations of Sydney's urban landscape, and he has ...
Shaw, G. Gayfield, b. 1885
Commercial gallery director, Gayfield Shaw was one of the most prominent members of the Sydney art scene during the early boom period in Australian visual ...
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Sievers, Wolfgang, b. 1913
German-born Australian photographer whose subject matter consisted primarily of Australian architecture and heavy industry. Sievers arrived in Australia in 1938 and died in Victoria in ...
Sinclair, Henriette, b. 1868
Henriette Sinclair is an example of the pottery students who transferred L.J. Harvey's teaching methods from Brisbane's Central Technical College interstate. She continued to produce ...
Skottowe, Elizabeth, b. 1912
Elizabeth Skottowe, illustrator and writer, was born in Adelaide. She studied at the South Australian School of Art, Adelaide and worked as an illustrator in ...
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Smart, Jeffrey, b. 1921
With a career lasting over sixty years the Adelaide born artist Jeffrey Smart was an expatriate realist painter best known for his depiction of isolated ...
Southern, Muriel, b. 1890
Muriel Southern was born around 1890. She was a painter, art teacher, occasional china painter and craft worker who in 1935 organised the Perth Arts ...