|
List Of Australian Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Australia or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Anita Aarons (1912–2000), sculptor *Prue Acton (born 1943), fashion designer * Yilpi Adamson (born 1954), textile artist, painter *Hoda Afshar (born 1983), Iranian born, photographer * Alison Alder (born 1958), screenprinter * Joyce Allan (1896–1966), scientific illustrator *Micky Allan (born 1944), photographer * Beverly Allen (born 1945), botanical artist *Davida Allen (born 1951), painter, filmmaker, writer * Mary Cecil Allen (1893–1962), painter, writer * Lily Allport (1860–1949), oil painter, watercolourist *Edith Susan Gerard Anderson (1880–1961), painter, artist's model, writer *Ethel Anderson (1883–1958), painter and writer *Daisy Andrews (c. 1934/1935–2015), painter *Jean Appleton (1911–2003), painter, print maker * Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (1940–2013), painter *Kerry Argent (born 1960), illustrator * Elizabeth Armstrong (1859–1930), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Aarons
Anita Aarons (6 November 1912 – 3 January 2000) was an Australian-Canadian artist. Life Born in Sydney, Aarons studied at the East Sydney Technical College and the National Art School in Sydney before moving to New York City, where she graduated from Columbia University in 1964. She exhibited work in venues in the United States, Canada, and Australia. She taught sculpture and crafts in a number of institutions, and designed stained glass windows, furniture, and jewelry, in addition to working as a sculptor. Collections which include examples of her work include the Charlottetown National Craft Collection and the National Collection of the Canadian Craftsmen Guild in Toronto. On 25 June 1951, Aarons was invited to attend a meeting of the City of Sydney's Health and Recreations Committee to discuss her submission to erect a piece of sculpture in the children's playground of Phillip Park. The Council approved the submission on 2 October 1951. The sculpture was removed on 2 Apr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Armstrong (artist)
Elizabeth Caroline Armstrong (28 September 1859 – 21 February 1930) was an Australian artist and art teacher. She was the first in a long line of influential female art educators appointed to the South Australian School of Design. According to one art historian, she was the first woman to hold a teaching post in a major Australian art school. Early life and training Armstrong was the second daughter of James Armstrong, a mail guard, and his wife Mary Ann (née Stickley). The family lived at 141 Wakefield Street, Adelaide. In her early twenties, Lizzie Armstrong (as she was then known) was praised for watercolours entered in the Adelaide Exhibition in the Adelaide Town Hall in 1881. From 1882 she studied under Louis Tannert, head of the School of Painting. Her works were among those chosen to represent the school in the 1887 Jubilee Exhibition in Adelaide and in the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition in 1888. Under Harry Pelling Gill, head of the School of Design, she took cour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronwyn Bancroft
Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Aboriginal Australian artist, and among the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris. Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, and trained in Canberra and Sydney, Bancroft worked as a fashion designer, and is an artist, illustrator, and arts administrator. In 1985, Bancroft established a shop called Designer Aboriginals, selling fabrics made by Aboriginal artists, including herself. She was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative. Art work by Bancroft is held by the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Art Gallery of Western Australia. She has provided art work for more than 20 children's books, including ''Stradbroke Dreamtime'' by writer and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal, and books by artist and writer Sally Morgan. She has received design commissions, including one for the exterior of a sports centre in Sydney. Bancroft has a long history of involvement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Marian Ellen Bale
Alice Marian Ellen Bale, known as A.M.E. Bale, (11 November 1875 14 February 1955) was an Australian artist. Early life and education Bale was born in Richmond, Victoria, on 11 November 1875 ''Victoria, Australia, Cemetery Records and Headstone Transcriptions, 1844–1997'' the daughter of Marian and naturalist William Mountier Bale. She was an only child, and her family had houses in both Kew and Castlemaine. She studied art under Frederick McCubbin and Lindsay Bernard Hall at the National Gallery School 18951904. Career Bale came to prominence as an artist in Melbourne in the 1920s and 1930s, developing a reputation as one of Australia's pre-eminent flower and still life painters. Distancing herself from her fellow female artists who were more aligned with the suffragette movement, Bale preferred to work hard within the constraints of the traditional structures of the art world, and never left Victoria. An active member of the Pickwick Club of Kew, she would gather w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Claire Baldenweg
Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 27 March 1954) is a Swiss-Australian contemporary artist. Life and work Marie-Claire Baldenweg was born in Switzerland. Since the early seventies almost all of her oil paintings feature the motif of a plastic shopping bag. Her style is a mix of photorealism and pop-art. She lives in Byron Bay, is married to musician Pfuri Baldenweg and is the mother of three children. Shows *In 1988 thPowerhouse Museum(Hyde Park Barracks) hosted a 6 months solo exhibition called "Carried Away". *In 2003 the Swiss Stock Exchange hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her work "Global Market – Bagflags of the World". *In 2005 the Australian Stock Exchange hosted a museum-like solo exhibition of her work "Global Market – Bagflags of the World". Quotes *''The queen of plastic bag art, Marie-Claire Baldenweg.'' (Sunday Telegraph, Australia, 02/2005) *''Marie-Claire could be thought of as working in a kind of latter-day Pop art style both celebrating the poss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maringka Baker
Maringka Baker is an Aboriginal artist from central Australia. She lives in the Pitjantjatjara community of Kaṉpi, South Australia, and paints for Tjungu Palya, based in nearby Nyapaṟi.Maringka is known for her paintings. Maringka paints sacred stories from her family's Dreaming (spirituality). As well as the important cultural meanings they carry, her paintings are known for being rich in colour and contrast. She often paints the desert landscape in bright green colours, and contrasts it against reds and ochres to depict landforms. She also uses layers of contrasting colours to show the detail of the desert in full bloom. Maringka was born in outback Western Australia around 1952. She was born at Kaliumpil, an old ceremonial and camping site on the Ngaanyatjarra lands. Her mother and father died when she was a young girl, and Maringka was brought up by Anmanari Brown and her other relatives. She went to primary school on the mission at Warburton, but ran away to join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannie Baker
Jeannie Baker is an English-born Australian children's picture book author and artist, known for her collage illustrations and her concern for the natural environment. Her books have won many awards. Biography Baker was born in London, England on 2 November 1950. She studied graphic design at Croydon School of Art and Brighton Polytechnic, earning honours in art and design, before making her home in Australia in 1975. In the early 1980s, she lived in New York on an Australia Council Visual Arts Board residency. Her book, ''Home in the Sky'' (1984), was developed there. Baker developed the illustrations for her first book, ''Grandfather,'' during her final year at Croydon School of Art. Baker uses a variety of textures in her works. "When I can, I like to use textures from the actual materials portrayed, such as bark, feathers, cracked paint, earth, knitted wool and rusty tin… so that their natural textures become an integral part of the work". Baker’s collages illustrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narelle Autio
Narelle Autio (born 1969) is an Australian photographer. Autio is a member of the In-Public street photography collective and is a founding member of the Oculi photographic agency. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke, with whom she often collaborates. Autio began exhibiting in 2000, collaborating with her husband Parke on ''The Seventh Wave''. This was followed in 2002 by the series ''Not of this Earth''. Her solo show in 2004, ''Watercolours'', continued her exploration of Australians at leisure. She followed this in 2010 with the show ''The Summer of Us,'' a document of what is left behind on the beach, naturally and by humankind. She has won two Walkley Awards for journalism, and two first prize World Press Photo awards and the Oskar Barnack Award for photography. Career Autio was born and raised in Adelaide, completing her Visual Arts degree at the University of South Australia. She began her career as a photojournalist at the Adelaide Advertiser before leavin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Poster Collectives
Australian poster collectives were artist collectives established in the late 1960s, 70s and 80s in the capital cities of Australia, largely led by women and focused on various forms of political activism. There were also such collectives in the 1990s, such as RedPlanet. History and description The collectives were formed mainly in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, but also in other Australian capital cities, during the period from approximately 1965 to the 1980s. The collectives were formed by artists concerned with social justice, women's rights, political activism, anti-Vietnam war protest, environmentalism, LGBT rights and Indigenous Australians' rights. Collectives made posters for concerts, bands, marches and community groups. Feminists were active in the collectives and some were women-only collectives. Women were leaders in the poster collective movement, establishing groups, providing training, opening the groups up to other women and decision-making by consensus. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Audette
Yvonne Audette (born 22 April 1930) is an Australian abstract artist. Life Audette was born in Sydney in 1930 and after attending art classes whilst still attending the prestigious private school Ascham, she and her American-born parents were persuaded to have her trained as an artist as it was considered she showed 'promise'. Audette benefited early from travel to the United States in 1948 and as an attractive young woman, she became somewhat of a spokeswoman for the American fashion she had seen on her visit. As early as 1949 it was noted her 'pet ambition was to become a painter'. She had enrolled at the Julian Ashton Art School but she became tired of the uninspiring teaching. The main teacher was Henry Gibbons who was nearing retirement. In 1951 his duties were taken over by John Passmore who was returning to Australia. Passmore became the main teacher at this private school. One of his favourite students was Audette. She compared his return to the school as "like Mose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Atkinson
Caroline Louisa Waring Calvert (; 25 February 1834 – 28 April 1872) was an early Australian writer, botanist and illustrator. While she was well known for her fiction during her lifetime, her long-term significance rests on her botanical work. She is regarded as a ground-breaker for Australian women in journalism and natural science, and is significant in her time for her sympathetic references to Aboriginal Australians in her writings and her encouragement of conservation. Life Louisa, as she was generally known, was born on her parents' property "Oldbury", Sutton Forest, about from Berrima, New South Wales, and was their fourth child. Her father, James Atkinson, was the author of an early Australian book, ''An Account of the State of Agriculture and Grazing in New South Wales'', published in 1826. He died in 1834, when Louisa was only 8 weeks old.Jessie Street National Women's Library (2004) Louisa was a somewhat frail child with a heart defect, and so was educated by her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mireille Astore
Mireille Eid (Astore) (Beirut, 1961) ( ar, ميراي عيد اسطوري) is an artist and a writer. She left Beirut during the Lebanese civil war in 1975 to live in Melbourne, Australia. She studied the Sciences at the University of Melbourne where she graduated before becoming a full-time artist and writer. Influenced by continental philosophy, her art draws on autobiographical notions of Representation (arts), representation and the ''unheimlich''; where the conscious intersects with the unconscious. Through her art and her writing she "explores human emotions" and "asks what it is to be human". Mireille Eid (Astore) attained a PhD in Contemporary Arts from the University of Western Sydney (2008). She was Research Affiliate (2009–2013) at Sydney College of the Arts, the Visual Arts Faculty of the University of Sydney and Research Fellow (2011–2012) at the American University of Beirut. Exhibitions Mireille Eid (Astore)'s artworks have been exhibited and screened at the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
