This is a list of Australian artists.

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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 gra ...

(1912–2000): sculptor * Harold Abbott (1906–1986): painter *

Ian Abdulla Ian Abdulla (1947–2011) was an Aboriginal Australian contemporary artist. A Ngarrindjeri man who grew up on the banks of the Murray River, Murray in South Australia, he has been called Australia's greatest naïve art, naive artist. Early l ...

(1947–2011):

Ngarrindjeri The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, eastern Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term ''Ngarrindjeri'' means "belo ...

naive artist *

Abdul Abdullah Abdul Abdullah (born 1986) is a Sydney-based Australian multidisciplinary artist, the younger brother of Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, also an artist. Abdul Abdullah has been a finalist several times in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes. He cre ...

(born 1986): multimedia artist *

Jack Absalom John Henry Absalom (11 November 1927 – 22 March 2019) was an Australian artist, author and adventurer. Life and death John Henry Absalom, colloquially to everyone as 'Jack', was born in Port Augusta, South Australia. He grew up along the ...

(1927–2019): artist, author and adventurer * Louis Abrahams (1852–1903): painter, etcher *

Tate Adams Tate Adams (22 January 1922 – 8 April 2018) was an Australian artist, based in Townsville, who was named a Member of the Order of Australia in 2009 for ''service to publishing and to the arts, particularly through contributions to the develo ...

(1922–2017): artist *

Joyce Allan Joyce Allan (8 April 1896 – 31 August 1966) was an Australian conchologist, curator, museum curator at the Australian Museum and a scientific illustrator. Early life and education Allan was born Catherine Mabel Joyce Allan on 8 April 1896 i ...

(1896–1966): scientific illustrator *

Micky Allan Micky Allan (born 1944) is an Australian photographer and artist whose work covers paintings, drawings, engraved glass overlays, installations and photography. Allan has become an influential public speaker and has been invited to be a part of ...

(born 1944): photographer * Beverly Allen (born 1945): botanical artist *

Davida Allen Davida Frances Allen (born 20 October 1951) is an Australian painter, filmmaker and writer. Early life and education Davida Allen was born on 20 October 1951 in Charleville, Queensland. She studied under Betty Churcher at the Stuartholme Scho ...

(born 1951): painter, film maker and writer *

Mary Cecil Allen Mary Cecil Allen (2 September 18937 April 1962) was an Australian artist, writer and lecturer. She lived most of her adult life in America, where she was known as Cecil Allen. Allen initially painted landscapes and portraits in her early career ...

(1893–1962): painter, writer * Mary Morton Allport (1806–1895): lithographer, etcher and engraver, landscapes and miniatures *

Ernie Althoff Ernie Althoff is an Australian musician, composer, instrument builder, and visual artist. He was born in Mildura, Victoria in 1950. Career He was involved in the Clifton Hill Community Music Centre during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Alth ...

(born 1950): musician, composer, instrument builder, and visual artist * Tony Ameneiro (born 1959): artist, printmaker *

Rick Amor Rick Amor (born 3 March 1948 ) is an Australian artist and figurative painter. He was an Official War Artist for Australia. Life and work Rick Amor was born in Frankston, Victoria, Australia. He has a certificate in art from the Caulfield I ...

(born 1948): artist and figurative painter * Roy Ananda (born 1980): sculptor *

Brook Andrew Brook Andrew (born 1970 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian contemporary artist. Work Andrew has exhibited internationally since 1996. His work focuses on Western narratives, especially relating to colonialism in the Australian context, and ...

(born 1970): contemporary artist *

Daisy Andrews Munmarria Daisy Andrews, known professionally as Daisy Andrews, (c. 1934 or 1935 – January 2015) was an Australian artist originally from the Walmajarri desert tribe. After taking up artwork later in life – initially illustrating the person ...

(c. 1934/1935–2015): Aboriginal painter * Garry Andrews (born 1957): painter, printmaker and art teacher *

George French Angas George French Angas (25 April 1822 – 4 October 1886), also known as G.F.A., was an English explorer, naturalist, painter and poet who emigrated to Australia. His paintings are held in a number of important Australian public art collections. ...

(1822–1886): painter * James Angus (born 1970): sculptor * Giulio Anivitti (1850–1881): artist, art teacher, portrait painter and gallery curator *

Douglas Annand Douglas Shenton Annand (22 March 1903 – 14 December 1976) was an Australian graphic designer and artist. Early life Born at Toowoomba, Queensland, to Frederick Annand and Helen Alice Robinson. Douglas attended Tudor House School, located ...

(1903–1976): graphic designer and artist *

Jean Appleton Jean Appleton (13 September 1911 – 11 June 2003) was an Australian painter, art teacher and printmaker. She worked with oils, watercolour, charcoal, pastel, pencil and India ink. The second of three children and an only daughter, Appleton did ...

(1911–2003): prize-winning painter, printmaker, art teacher * Silvio Apponyi (born 1949): German-Australian sculptor *

Howard Arkley Howard Arkley (5 May 1951 – 22 July 1999) was an Australian artist, born in Melbourne, known for his airbrushed paintings of houses, architecture and suburbia. His parents were Australian, and had British ancestry. Early career John Brack wa ...

(1951–1999): painter of houses, architecture, and suburbia *

Hany Armanious Hany Armanious (born 1962) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney. Armanious produces installations and sculptural forms, as well as paintings and drawings. Life and work Hany Armanious was born in Ismailia, Egypt and migrated to ...

(born 1962): artist *

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 ...

(1859–1930): artist and art teacher * Ian Armstrong (1923–2005): painter and printmaker * Alison Marjorie Ashby (1901–1987): botanical artist * James Ashton (1859–1935): artist and arts educator *

Julian Ashton Julian Rossi Ashton (27 January 185127 April 1942) was an English-born Australian artist and teacher. He is best known for founding the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and encouraging Australian painters to capture local life and scenery '' ...

(1851–1942): artist and teacher *

Julian Howard Ashton Julian Howard Ashton (9 August 1877 – 30 April 1964), often referred to as Howard Ashton, was a journalist, writer, artist and critic born in England, who had a considerable career in Australia. History Ashton was born in Islington, London, a ...

(1877–1964): journalist, writer, artist and critic *

Will Ashton Sir John William Ashton, OBE, ROI (20 September 1881 – 1 September 1963) was a prolific Australian Impressionist artist and director of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1937 to 1943. Early life Ashton was born in Clifton, ...

(1881–1963): artist and gallery director *

Olive Ashworth Olive Ashworth (1915 – 2000) was an Australian artist, textile designer and photographer. She is acknowledged as a significant contributor to Australian textile design during the 1950s. Collections Ashworth's works are held in the collectio ...

(1915–2000): textile designer *

Estelle Asmodelle Estelle Asmodelle, formerly known as Estelle Maria Croot, is a polymath. She is an Australian model, actress, belly dancer, musician, activist, abstract artist and physicist. She became Australia's first legally recognised transgender person ...

(born 1964): abstract artist, musician, and academic *

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 ...

(born 1961): artist, writer and film maker * Michael Atchison OAM (1933–2009): South Australian cartoonist *

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 ...

(1834–1872): illustrator, botanist, writer *

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 we ...

(born 1930): painter * J. Muir Auld (1879–1942): painter of landscapes and figure subjects * Daryl Austin (born 1964): painter and arts education *

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 ...

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Joseph Backler Joseph Backler (24 May 1813 – 22 October 1895) was an English-born Australian painter. Transported to Australia as a convict in 1832, he obtained a ticket of leave in 1842 and was active as a painter from 1842 to 1880. Early life and transpo ...

(1813–1895): English-born Australian painter *

Herbert Badham Herbert Edward Badham (1899–1961) was an Australian realist painter and art teacher. Biography Early life Herbert Badham was born in 1899 in Watsons Bay, a suburb of Sydney, Australia to Herbert Lewis Badham (1937) and his wife Mary.

(1899–1961): realist painter *

Thomas Baines (John) Thomas Baines (27 November 1820 – 8 May 1875) was an English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia. Life and work Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, on 27 November 1820, Baines was apprenticed to a coach ...

(1820–1875): English artist and explorer of

British colonial The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts esta ...

southern Africa and Australia *

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, Englan ...

(born 1950): English-born children's picture book author and artist *

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 ...

(born c. 1952): painter *

Normand Baker Normand Henry Baker (1908–1955) was an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first ...

(1908–1955): artist, winner of 1937

Archibald Prize The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archib ...

Arthur Baker-Clack Arthur Baker–Clack was an Australian-born painter in the impressionist school. He was at the art colony at Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France from 1910, and continued to live in the region during World War I and after. Caree ...

(1877–1955): expatriate Impressionist painter of landscapes, resident of the Étaples art colony *

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 shop ...

(born 1954): Swiss–Australian contemporary artist *

George Baldessin George Baldessin (19 May 1939 – 9 August 1978) was an Italian–Australian artist. Early life and education George Victor Joseph (George) Baldessin was born on 19 May 1939 in San Biagio di Callalta, Veneto, Italy.Zimmer, JennyBaldessin, Geor ...

(1912–1978): Italian–Australian artist *

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 Head ...

(18751955): exhibited with the

Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, established in Melbourne, Victoria in 1902, is the oldest surviving women's art group in Australia. History The Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors (MSWPS) began in 1902 as a ...

Percival Ball Percival Ball (17 February 1845 – 4 April 1900) was an English sculptor active in Australia. Ball was born in Westminster, London, the son of Edward Henry Ball, carver, and his wife Louisa, née Percival. He later studied at the Royal Academy ...

(1845–1900): English sculptor active in Australia * Sydney Ball (1933–2017): abstract painter *

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 ...

(born 1958): fashion designer, illustrator * Rosalie (Ros) Edith Bandt (born 1951): composer, sound artist, academic and performer *

William Barak William Barak, named Beruk by his parents, (1823 – 15 August 1903), the "last chief of the Yarra Yarra tribe", was the last traditional ngurungaeta (elder) of the Wurundjeri-willam clan, the pre-colonial inhabitants of present-day Melbourne, A ...

(1824–1903): Aboriginal artist of traditional

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life and encounters with Europeans * Irene Barberis (born 1953): English-born painter, installation artist, drawer *

Caroline Barker Caroline Barker (born 1981) is a British sports journalist and broadcaster who works in television and radio. She currently presents mainly for BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC World Service, Sky Sports and Premier League Productions. Barker was the fir ...

(1894–1988): painter *

Elsie Barlow Elsie Frederica Barlow (1876 – 15 November 1948), was an Australian painter and printmaker. She was a founding member of Twenty Melbourne Painters. She was also the first woman to have a solo exhibition in Castlemaine, Victoria. Biography El ...

(1876–1948): painter, printmaker *

Gustave Barnes Gustave Adrian "Gus" Barnes (9 May 1877 – 14 March 1921) was an English violinist, painter and sculptor with a significant career in South Australia, notably as curator at the Art Gallery. Biography Barnes was born in Islington, Middlesex, t ...

(1877–1921): English violinist, painter and sculptor * Virginia Barratt (born 1959): researcher, artist, writer and performer * Jeremy Barrett (born 1936): artist *

Ethel Barringer Ethel Barringer (24 July 1883 – 30 May 1925) was a South Australian artist who excelled in various media, but was particularly known for her etchings. Ethel was a daughter of Leonard Barringer (ca. 1844 – 11 August 1895) and his wife Fanny ...

(1883–1925): etcher *

Gwen Barringer Gwen Barringer (29 July 1882 – 26 August 1960) was a South Australian artist, known for her watercolours. Barringer was noted for watercolours of flowers and landscapes, to which she invested a fairyland-like glamour and remained immune to tre ...

(1882–1960): watercolourist *

Herbert Page Barringer Herbert Page Barringer (1886 – 12 August 1946) was an Australian watercolour artist. Biography Barringer was born in North Adelaide on 22 November 1886, the child of Leonard Barringer and his wife Fanny ( Page). His older sister, Ethel Barrin ...

(1886–1946): watercolourist *

Del Kathryn Barton Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972) is an Australian artist who began drawing at a young age, and studied at UNSW Art & Design (formerly the College of Fine Arts) at the University of New South Wales. She soon became known for her psyche ...

(born 1972): artist, winner of 2008 and 2013

s * Margaret Baskerville (1861–1930): Victorian sculptor and painter * Tom Bass (1916–2010): sculptor *

Edward La Trobe Bateman Edward La Trobe Bateman (8 January 1816 – 30 December 1897) was a Pre-Raphaelite watercolour painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and garden designer. Life Bateman was probably born in Lower Wyke, Yorkshire, the son of John Bateman, a ma ...

(1861–1897): painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and garden designer *

H. M. Bateman Henry Mayo Bateman (15 February 1887 – 11 February 1970, Mgarr, Malta) was a British humorous artist and cartoonist. H. M. Bateman was noted for his "The Man Who..." series of cartoons, featuring comically exaggerated reactions to minor and u ...

(1887–1970): humorous artist and cartoonist *

Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman (also known as Piers Bateman, 30 November 1947 – 4 September 2015) was an Australian landscape painter. He was a member of The Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Arthur Boyd, David Boy ...

(aka Piers Bateman)(1947–2015): landscape painter *

Terry Batt Terry Batt is an Australian artist and sculptor. Biography Terry Batt was born in Bristol, England and emigrated to Australia as a young child. He completed a Diploma of Visual Arts in 1977 at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design in ...

(born 1949): artist and sculptor *

Rex Battarbee Reginald Ernest Battarbee, (16 December 1893 – 2 September 1973) was an Australian artist notable for painting landscapes of Central Australia, and for teaching Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira to paint. Early career Rex Battarbee was bo ...

(1893–1973): painter *

Ferdinand Bauer Ferdinand Lucas Bauer (20 January 1760 – 17 March 1826) was an Austrian botanical illustrator who travelled on Matthew Flinders' expedition to Australia. Biography Early life and career Bauer was born in Feldsberg in 1760, the youngest son of ...

(1760–1826): Austrian

botanical illustrator Botanical illustration is the art of depicting the form, color, and details of plant species, frequently in watercolor paintings. They must be scientifically accurate but often also have an artistic component and may be printed with a botanical ...

* Lionel Bawden (born 1974): artist * Clark Beaumont (formed 2010) (Sarah Clark and Nicole Beaumont), video, performance art *

John Beard John Beard may refer to: * John Beard (artist) (born 1943), Welsh artist and painter * John Beard (colonial administrator) (died 1685), Chief Agent and Governor of Bengal * John Beard (embryologist) (1858–1924), Scottish embryologist and anatomi ...

(born 1943): painter, winner of 2006

Wynne Prize The Wynne Prize is an Australian landscape painting or figure sculpture art prize. As one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, it was established in 1897 from the bequest of Richard Wynne. Now held concurrently with the Sir John Sulman Prize ...

and 2007

John Watt Beattie John Watt Beattie (15 August 1859 – 24 June 1930) was an Australian photographer. Beattie was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Tasmania in 1890. He was appointed Photographer to the Governmen ...

(1859–1930): photographer *

Christopher Beaumont Christopher Beaumont (born 1961) is an Australian still life painter. His paintings are in many institutional, corporate, and private collections. Early life and education Christopher Beaumont was born in Melbourne in 1961.Clarice Beckett Clarice Marjoribanks Beckett (21 March 1887 – 7 July 1935) was an Australian artist and a key member of the Australian tonalist movement. Known for her subtle, misty landscapes of Melbourne and its suburbs, Beckett developed a personal style ...

(1887–1935): painter *

Paddy Bedford Paddy Bedford (circa 1922 – 14 July 2007), aka "Goowoomji", was a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from Warmun in the Kimberley, and one of eight Australian artists selected for an architectural commission for the Musée du quai Bra ...

(1922–2007): Indigenous artist and architect * Bianca Beetson: Aboriginal artist *

Marcus Beilby Marcus Charles Beilby (born 20 November 1951, in Western Australia), is an Australian realist painter. Beilby grew up in the Perth suburb of Mount Pleasant. He was educated at Applecross Senior High School and the Claremont Technical College, ...

(born 1951): artist, winner of 1987

Sulman Prize The Sir John Sulman Prize is one of Australia's longest-running art prizes, having been established in 1936. It is now held concurrently with the Archibald Prize, Australia's best-known art prize, and also with the Wynne Prize, at the Art Gallery ...

George Bell George Bell may refer to: Law and politics * George Joseph Bell (1770–1843), Scottish jurist and legal author * George Alexander Bell (1856–1927), Canadian pioneer and Saskatchewan politician * George Bell (Canadian politician) (1869–1940) ...

(1878–1966): painter who studied in London and Paris * Richard Bell (born 1953): painter who courted controversy * Robert Stewart Bell AM (1946–2018): artist in ceramics and textiles and arts curator *

Lisa Bellear Lisa (Marie) Bellear (2 May 1961 in Melbourne, Victoria – 5 July 2006 in Melbourne) was an Indigenous Australian poet, photographer, activist, spokeswoman, dramatist, comedian and broadcaster. She was a Goenpul woman of the Noonuccal people o ...

(1961–2006): photographer, poet, dramatist, comedian *

Jean Bellette Jean Bellette (occasionally Jean Haefliger; 25 March 1908 – 16 March 1991) was an Australian artist. Born in Tasmania, she was educated in Hobart and at Julian Ashton's art school in Sydney, where one of her teachers was Thea Proctor. In ...

(1908–1991): painter * Allana Beltran: performance artist * Jason Benjamin (1971–2021): painter, winner of 2005

* Anthony Bennett (born 1966): painter, Archibald Prize finalist 2008, 2009 * Gordon Bennett (1955–2014): Aboriginal artist * Jane Bennett (born 1960): painter * Portia Mary Bennett (1898–1989): painter * Stephen Benwell (born 1953): ceramicist *

Moira Bertram Moira Bertram (1929 – ?), was an Australian comic book artist and illustrator. Biography Moira Bertram was born in Sydney in 1929, the daughter of a Sydney wool shipper. She studied portrait painting under the noted Australian painter Antoni ...

(1929–?): comic artist, illustrator * Kevin Best (1932–2012): artist, awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) *

Kate Beynon Kate Beynon (born 9 September 1970, in Hong Kong) is an Australian contemporary artist based in Melbourne. She was the 2016 winner of the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize for the painting, ''Graveyard scene/the beauty and sadness of bones.'' Her ...

(born 1970): artist *

Charles Billich Charles Billich is an artist living in Sydney, Australia. His painting subjects include Ballet and sport, architecture and town planning, eroticism and classicism, portraiture, and stage, as well as Humanitarian pieces and works of religious sig ...

(born 1934): artist *

Asher Bilu Asher Bilu (born 1936) is an Australian artist who creates paintings, sculptures and installations. He has also contributed to several films by Director Paul Cox (director), Paul Cox as production designer. He was born in Israel, and began his c ...

(born 1936): painter and sculptor *

Vivienne Binns Vivienne Joyce Binns (born 1940) is an Australian artist known for her contribution to the Women's Art Movement in Australia, her engagement with feminism in her artwork, and her active advocacy within community arts. She works predominantly in ...

(born 1940): artist, awarded the Order of Australia (OAM) * Karna Maria Birmingham (1900–1987): artist, illustrator and print maker *

Dorrit Black Dorothea Foster Black (23 December 1891 – 13 September 1951) was an Australian painter and printmaker of the modernism, Modernist school, known for being a pioneer of Modernism in Australia. In 1951, at the age of sixty, Black was killed in a ...

(1891–1951): painter, printmaker *

Charles Blackman Charles Raymond Blackman (12 August 1928 – 20 August 2018) was an Australian painter, noted for the ''Schoolgirl, Avonsleigh'' and ''Alice in Wonderland'' series of the 1950s. He was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painter ...

(1928–2018):

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

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Freya Blackwood Freya Blackwood (born 1975) is an Australian illustrator and special effects artist. She worked on special effects for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy from 2001 to 2003 and won the Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration ...

(born 1975): illustrator, special effects artist *

Florence Turner Blake Florence Turner Blake (1873–1959) was an Australian artist and benefactor. She was also known professionally as Florence Turner Mofflin, Florence Turner Greaves and Florence Mofflin. Early life The youngest of six children she was born as Flor ...

(1873–1959): painter *

Robin Blau Robin Blau (born 1946) is an Australian artist based in Sydney. Blau graduated in sculpture and jewellery from Sydney College of the Arts The Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) is a contemporary art school that was a faculty of the University ...

(born 1946): design artist, sculptor, jeweller * Peter Michael Blayney (1920–2014): artist *

Godfrey Blow Godfrey Blow (born 6 October 1948) is an artist based in Kalamunda, Western Australia. He is the founder of the Perth, Western Australia, Perth Stuckism, Stuckists. Life and art Godfrey Blow was born in North Hykeham, Lincolnshire, England ...

(born 1948): artist, founder of the

Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

Stuckists Stuckism () is an international art movement An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific common philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) o ...

Elise Blumann Elise Blumann (16 January 1897 Parchim, Germany – 29 January 1990, Nedlands, Western Australia) was a German born artist who achieved recognition as an Australian Expressionist painter. Blumann studied at the Royal School of Art in Berlin be ...

(1897–1990): German-born artist who achieved recognition as an

Expressionist Expressionism is a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Northern Europe around the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it rad ...

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Thomas Bock Thomas Bock was an English-Australian artist and an early adopter of photography in Australia. Born in England he was sentenced to transportation in 1823. After gaining his freedom he set himself up as one of Australia's first professional ar ...

(1793–1855):

portraitist A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this re ...

Wim Boissevain William 'Wim' Boissevain (born 23 July 1927) is an Australian painter of Dutch extraction born Willem Geoffrey Boissevain in New York, son of Gideon Walrave 'Gi' Boissevain who was in the Dutch diplomatic service. He studied at the Central Schoo ...

(born 1927): painter * Peter Bonner (born 1964): artist *

Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (also referred to as Susie Bootja Bootja Napangardi, Napangarti, or Napangati) (c. 1935 – 16 January 2003) was an Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Born south-west of Balgo, Western Au ...

(c. 1935–2003): painter * David Booker (born 1954): Australian contemporary sculptor *

Jeremy Boot Jeremy Boot (born 1948) is a South Australian wildlife artist, known particularly for detailed, ornithologically accurate, portraits of birds. Boot was born in Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Island ...

(born 1948): Australian wildlife painter *

Peter Booth Peter Booth (born 2 November 1940) is an Australian figurative and a surrealist painter, and one of the key late-20th-century Australian artists. His work is characterised by an intense emotional power of often dark narratives, and esoteric sy ...

(born 1940): figurative and abstract painter * Marion Borgelt (born 1954): contemporary painter and

mixed-media In visual art, mixed media describes artwork in which more than one medium or material has been employed. Assemblages, collages, and sculpture are three common examples of art using different media. Materials used to create mixed media art incl ...

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Polly Borland Polly Borland (born 1959) is an Australian photographer who formerly resided in England from 1989 to 2011, and now lives in Los Angeles, United States. She is known both for her editorial portraits and for her work as a photographic artist. Bi ...

(born 1959): photographer *

Nancy Borlase Nancy Wilmot Borlase (24 March 1914 – 11 September 2006) was a New Zealand-born Australian artist, known for her landscape-based abstract paintings and portraits, and as an art critic and commentator. Her work is displayed in the National Gal ...

(1914–2006): New Zealand-born landscape-based abstract painter and

Paul Boston Paul Boston (born 1952) is an Australian artist. Life and work Paul Boston was born in Melbourne in 1952. While with at art school he developed an interest in Zen. After graduating, Boston travelled to Japan and South East Asia, where he spe ...

(born 1952): artist *

Stella Bowen Esther Gwendolyn "Stella" Bowen (1893–1947) was an Australian artist and writer. Early career Bowen was born in North Adelaide, an inner suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, and educated at Tormore House School. As a young girl, Bowen enjoy ...

(1893–1947): painter *

William Leslie Bowles William Leslie Bowles (26 February 1885 at Leichhardt, Sydney, Australia – 21 February 1954 at Frankston, Victoria) was an Australian sculptor and medallist. Education He started at Kangaroo Point State School, Brisbane. After studyi ...

(1885–1954): sculptor and medallist *

Arthur Boyd Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, ...

(1920–1999):

, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty * Daniel Boyd (born 1982): painter, sculptor and installation artist * David Boyd (1924–2011): artist of symbolic and historical paintings, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty *

Doris Boyd Doris Lucy Eleanor Bloomfield Boyd (; 20 November 1888 – 13 June 1960) was an Australian artist, painter and ceramicist. Early life Doris Boyd was the youngest of six children, born to Victorian Naval Forces Lieutenant Thomas Bunbury Gough ...

(1888–1960): painter, ceramist *

Emma Minnie Boyd Emma Minnie Boyd (23 November 1858—13 September 1936), born Emma Minnie à Beckett, was an Australian artist. Boyd exhibited publicly between 1874 and 1932. She showed with the Victorian Artists Society, the Centennial International Exhibiti ...

(1858–1936): painter * Guy Boyd (1923–1988): sculptor, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty *

Merric Boyd William Merric Boyd, known more as Merric Boyd (24 June 1888 – 9 September 1959), was an Australian artist, active as a ceramicist, sculptor, and extensive chronicling of his family and environs in pencil drawing. He held the fine mythic disti ...

(1888–1959):

ceramicist Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Whi ...

, painter, and sculptor, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty *

Penleigh Boyd Theodore Penleigh Boyd (15 August 1890 – 27 November 1923) was a British born Australian artist. Penleigh Boyd was a member of the Boyd artistic dynasty: his parents Arthur Merric Boyd (1862–1940) and Emma Minnie Boyd (née à Beckett) ...

(1890–1923): landscape painter, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty *

Robert Boynes Robert Boynes (born 1943) is a contemporary Australian artist working primarily in painting, but has also produced prints, films and sculptures. Early life and education Boynes was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1943. He grew up in ...

(born 1943): contemporary painter *

John Brack John Brack (10 May 1920 – 11 February 1999) was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group. According to one critic, Brack's early works captured the idiosyncrasies of their time "more powerfully and succinctly than any Aust ...

(1920–1999): painter, member of

Antipodeans Group The Antipodeans (from the Greek: ἀντίποδες meaning literally “those at the antipodes”) were a group of Australian modern artists who asserted the importance of figurative art, and protested against abstract expressionism. Thoug ...

Godwin Bradbeer Godwin Bradbeer (born 1950) is a New Zealand-born artist now living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Bradbeer is known for large-scale figurative drawing and has been exhibited internationally since the 1970s. He has taught at the University ...

(born 1950): figurative drawing *

Pat Brassington Pat Brassington (born 1942) is an Australian contemporary artist working in the field of digital art, and photography. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she was named Australia's key surrealist working in photomedia. Brassington's work has been exhi ...

(born 1942): photographer, digital artist *

Kate Breakey Kate Breakey is a visual artist known for her large-scale, hand-colored photographs. Since 1981 her work has appeared in more than 75 solo exhibitions and more than 50 group exhibitions in the United States, France, Japan, Australia, China, and ...

(born 1957): photographer * Angela Brennan (born 1960): painter, ceramist *

Florence Broadhurst Florence Maud Broadhurst (28 July 1899 – 15 October 1977) was an Australian painter and wallpaper and fabrics designer as well as a businesswoman. She was murdered in the Sydney suburb of Paddington, New South Wales and the perpetrator has no ...

(1899–1977): designer *

Horace Brodzky Horace Ascher Brodzky (30 January 1885 – 11 February 1969) was an Australian-born artist and writer most of whose work was created in London and New York. His work included paintings, drawings and linocuts, of which he was an early pioneer. An as ...

(1885–1969): artist * Gracius Broinowski (1837–1913): artist and ornithologist * David Bromley (born 1960): artist *

Donald Brook Donald Brook (8 January 1927 – 17 December 2018) was an Australian artist, art critic, philosopher, and theorist, whose research and publications centre on the philosophy of art, non-verbal representation and cultural evolution. He initiated ...

(1927–2018): artist * Anmanari Brown (born c. 1930): painter * Nyuju Stumpy Brown (1924–2011): Wangkatjungka Indigenous Australian painter * Andrew Browne (born 1960): figurative painter * Richard Browne (1771–1824): artist and illustrator *

Lina Bryans Lina Bryans (26 September 1909 – 30 September 2000), was an Australian modernist painter. Life Lina Bryans was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 26 August 1909, second daughter of wealthy prosperous Michaelis-Hallenstein family of industria ...

(1909–2000): painter *

Charles David Jones Bryant Charles David Jones Bryant (11 May 1883 – 22 January 1937), known as Charles Bryant, was an Australian marine artist. Life and career Early life Bryant was born at Enmore, Sydney, the fifth son of John Ambrose Bryant, storekeeper, and his w ...

(1883–1937): marine artist *

Ernest Buckmaster Ernest William Buckmaster (1897–1968) was an Australian artist born in Victoria. He won the Archibald Prize in 1932 with a portrait of Sir William Irvine. He also served as an Australian war artist during World War II. Life and career Buckm ...

(1897–1968): painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1932 *

Knud Bull Knud Geelmuyden Bull (10 September 1811 – 23 December 1889) was a Norwegian painter and counterfeiter. He studied as a painter, was convicted for printing false bank notes, and was deported from the United Kingdom to Australia during 1846 ...

(1811–1889): Norwegian painter and counterfeiter transported to Australia * Norma Bull (1906–1980): painter, printmaker and etcher *

Rupert Bunny Rupert Charles Wulsten Bunny (29 September 186425 May 1947) was an Australian painter. Born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, he achieved success and critical acclaim as an expatriate in '' fin-de-siècle'' Paris. He gained an honourable mentio ...

(1864–1947): painter of landscapes, figure studies, and scenes drawn from mythology and literature *

Ian Burn Ian Burn (29 December 1939 – 29 September 1993) was an Australian conceptual artist. He was a member of the Art and Language group that flourished in the 1970s. Ian Burn was also an art writer, curator, and scholar. Biography Ian Burn was ...

(1939–1993): conceptual artist * Peter Burns (1924–2020): architect and artist * Jane Burton (born 1966): photographer *

William Bustard William Bustard (1894–1973) was an artist in Queensland, Australia. His stained glass work features in many heritage-listed buildings. Early life William Bustard was born in 1894 in Terrington, Malton, Yorkshire, England. Living close to the ...

(1894–1973): stained glass artist *

Louis Buvelot Louis Buvelot ( Morges 3 March 1814 – Melbourne 30 May 1888), born Abram-Louis Buvelot, was a Swiss landscape painter who lived 17 years in Brazil and following 5 years back in Switzerland stayed 23 years in Australia, where he influenced the H ...

(1814–1888): Swiss-born landscape painter who emigrated to Australia Back to top

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Nicholas Caire Nicholas John Caire (28 February 1837 – 13 February 1918) was an Australian photographer. Caire was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands, to Nicholas Caire and Hannah Margeret. As a boy Caire spoke French found he had a passion for photography th ...

(1837–1916): photographer *

Peter Callas Peter Callas is an Australian artist, curator and writer, particularly known for his pioneering video art using computer graphics made with the Fairlight CVI (Computer Video Instrument).Meigh-Andrews, Chris, ''A History of Video Art'', second ...

(born 1952): video artist * H. H. Calvert (1870–1923): artist *

Cressida Campbell Cressida Campbell (born 8 July 1960) is an Australian artist. She was born in Sydney in 1960 to Ruth and Ross Campbell. She studied at East Sydney Technical College in 1978 and 1979. Her older sister is actress Nell Campbell. Her first husba ...

(born 1960): printmaker *

Joan Campbell Joan Ruth Campbell MBE (1925–1997) was a Victorian born potter/ceramic artist. Joan Campbell was born in Geelong, Victoria in 1925. At the age of fifteen, in 1940, her family relocated to Western Australia. She took up pottery later in li ...

(1925–1997): ceramist * Robert Campbell (1902–1972): painter and gallery director *

Jane Cannan Jane Cannan (1822–1861) was an Anglo-Australian artist. Life and work Born Jane Dorothea Claude in 1822 of Berlin Huguenot descent, she grew up in Liverpool and Ambleside in England's Lake District and was a charity worker and school teacher ...

(1822–1861): painter, drawer *

Jack Carington Smith Jack Carington Smith (26 February 1908 – 19 March 1972) was an Australian artist from Launceston, Tasmania. Born simply "Smith", he adopted "Carington Smith" as his surname around 1936 when he won a travelling scholarship which enabled him to s ...

(1908–1972): artist and teacher from

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who won the Archibald Prize in 1963 *

Ethel Carrick Ethel Carrick, later Ethel Carrick Fox (7 February 1872 – 17 June 1952) was an English Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painter. Much of her career was spent in France and in Australia, where she was associated with the movement known as ...

(1872–1952): painter * Tom Carrington (1843–1918): journalist, political cartoonist and illustrator * James Howe Carse (c. 1819–1900): British–Australian painter who specialized in

landscapes A landscape is the visible features of an area of Terrestrial ecoregion, land, its landforms, and how they integrate with Nature, natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionar ...

Jeff Carter Jeffrey J. Carter (born January 1, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Los Angeles Kings ...

(1928–2010): photographer, filmmaker and author * Maie Casey (1892–1983): aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist *

Judy Cassab Judy Cassab (15 August 19203 November 2015), born Judit Kaszab, was an Australian painter. Early years Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents. She began painting at twelve years old and began studying at ...

(1920–2015): painter, twice won the

John Cato John Chester Cato (2 November 1926 – 30 January 2011) was an Australian photographer and teacher. Cato started his career as a commercial photographer and later moved towards fine art photography and education. Cato spent most of his life ...

(1926—2011): photographer and influential lecturer in photography. *

Gino Cavicchioli Gino Cavicchioli (born March 9, 1957) was born in Australia and is a Canadian sculptor/artist based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Having spent most of his formative years in Rome, Italy, he cites the work of the Italian Renaissance as the earli ...

(born 1957): Australian-born bust sculptor now living in Canada *

Neville Henry Cayley Neville Henry Peniston Cayley (born ''Caley''; 29 May 1854 – 7 May 1903) was an Australian painter who contributed greatly to public awareness of Australian birds through his meticulous and attractive watercolours of iconic species. Cayley ...

(1854–1903): bird artist, ornithologist *

Neville William Cayley Neville William Cayley (1886–1950) was an Australian writer, artist and ornithologist. He produced Australia's first comprehensive bird field guide '' What Bird is That?''. In 1960 it was rated the all-time best seller in Australian natural ...

(1886–1950): bird artist, author, ornithologist *

Harold Cazneaux Harold Pierce Cazneaux (30 March 1878 – 19 June 1953) was an Australian pictorialist photographer; a pioneer whose style had an indelible impact on the development of Australian photographic history. In 1916, he was a founding member of the ...

(1878–1953):

pictorialist Pictorialism is an international style and aesthetic movement that dominated photography during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer ha ...

photographer *

Alex Cearns Alex Cearns is an Australian photographer who is known for her pet, animal, and wildlife photography. She is the founder of Houndstooth Studio and has won more than 350 awards for business, philanthropy and animal photography, including the B ...

: photographer *

Mutlu Çerkez Mutlu Çerkez (17 September 196410 December 2005) was a United Kingdom, British-born Australian-Turkish Cypriot conceptual artist. Çerkez was known for titling his work based upon a future date which he would remake it, although not necessarily ...

(1964–2005): conceptual artist *

Queenie Chan Queenie Chan is a Chinese-Australian Original English-Language comic artist who co-wrote and illustrated the graphic novel '' In Odd We Trust'', a prequel to Dean Koontz's '' Odd Thomas'', and published by Del Rey. She illustrated the sequel, ...

(born 1980): Hong Kong-born comic artist *

Nicholas Chevalier Nicholas Chevalier (9 May 1828 – 15 March 1902) was a Russian-born artist who worked in Australia and New Zealand. Early life Chevalier was born in St Petersburg, Russia, the son of Louis Chevalier, who came from Vaud, Switzerland, and was ove ...

(1828–1902): Russian-born artist, illustrator in

lithography Lithography () is a planographic method of printing originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. The printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or a metal plate with a smooth surface. It was invented in 1796 by the German a ...

and

water-colour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

Gunter Christmann Gunter Christmann (23 April 1936 – 19 November 2013) was a German-born Australian painter. Born in Berlin, Christmann emigrated to Australia in 1959. Regarded as a painter's painter, Christmann has been making abstract and figurative paint ...

(1936–2013): German-born Australian painter *

Ernest William Christmas Ernest William Christmas (28 January 1863 – 29 July 1918) was an Australian painter, known primarily for his landscapes. Much of his later, most familiar work was done outside of Australia; in Europe, South America and, finally, Hawaii. Biog ...

(1863–1918) *

Betty Churcher Elizabeth Ann Dewar Churcher (''née'' Cameron; 11 January 193131 March 2015) was an Australian arts administrator, best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right ea ...

(1931–2015): arts administrator and painter * Peter Churcher (born 1964): painter of portraits and figures in a realistic style *

Marc Clark Marc Clark (20 October 1923 – 12 September 2021) was a British-born Australian academic, sculptor and printmaker. Clark's sculptures can be found in parks in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra in Australia and in Tonga. Early life Marc Cla ...

(1923–2021): sculptor and print maker * Bree Kristel Clarke: photographer * Joseph Augustine Clarke (1844–1890): artist, painter, journal illustrator and arts-teacher * Richard Clements (1951–1999): painter * James Clifford (1936–1987): painter *

Densey Clyne Densey Clyne (born Dorothy Denise Bell, 4 December 1922 – 21 May 2019)
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(1922–2019): Welsh-born photographer, naturalist, writer *

George James Coates George James Coates (8 August 1869 – 27 July 1930) was an Australian painter, primarily dealing with portraits. He worked as an official war artist to the Australian government in 1919, and from then on specialised in war subjects until his ...

(1869–1930): portrait painter * John Coburn (1925—2006): painter, teacher, tapestry designer and printmaker * R. Sidney Cocks (1866–1939): artist *

Margaret Coen Margaret Coen (4 April 1909 – 27 August 1993) was an Australian artist, known for her watercolours, paintings of flowers, landscapes and still life works. Her paintings and personal papers are held in national collections. Early life Margaret ...

(1909–1993): artist *

Ola Cohn Ola Cohn (born Carola Cohn; 25 April 1892 – 23 December 1964) was an Australian artist, author and philanthropist best known for her work in sculpture in a modernist style and famous for her ''Fairies Tree'' in the Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. ...

(1892–1964): sculptor *

Colin Colahan Colin Cuthbert Orr Colahan (12 February 1897, Woodend, Victoria – 6 June 1987, Ventimiglia) was an Australian painter and sculptor. Educated at Xavier College. Second youngest of the six children of Surgeon-Major-General John Joseph Aloys ...

(1897–1987): painter and sculptor, died in Italy * Bindi Cole (born 1975): photographer, video artist, installation artist * Alfred Coleman (1890–1952): painter *

George Collingridge George Collingridge (29 October 1847 – 1 June 1931) was an Australian writer and illustrator best known today for his early assertions of Portuguese discovery of Australia in the 16th century. Early life He was born in Oxfordshire, England, e ...

(1847–1931): writer and illustrator *

Albert Collins Albert Gene Drewery, known as Albert Collins and the Ice Man (October 1, 1932 – November 24, 1993),Skeely, Richard. "Albert Collins: Biography" Allmusic.com. was an American electric blues guitarist and singer with a distinctive guitar style. ...

(1883–1951): painter, teacher and actor *

Amalie Sara Colquhoun Amalie Sara Colquhoun (20 March 1894 – 16 June 1974) was an Australian landscape and portrait painter who is represented in national and state galleries. In addition to painting landscapes, portraits and still lifes, Colquhoun designed and s ...

(1894–1974): painter *

Charles Conder Charles Edward Conder (24 October 1868 – 9 February 1909) was an English-born painter, lithographer and designer. He emigrated to Australia and was a key figure in the Heidelberg School, arguably the beginning of a distinctively Australi ...

(1868–1909): English-born painter of the

Heidelberg School The Heidelberg School was an Australian art movement of the late 19th century. It has latterly been described as Australian impressionism. Melbourne art critic Sidney Dickinson coined the term in an 1891 review of works by Arthur Streeton and ...

who emigrated to Australia * Daniel Connell (born 1970): artist * Kevin Connor (born 1932): artist, two-time winner of the

* Sylvia Convey (born 1948): painter * Michael Cook (born 1968): photographic artist *

William Delafield Cook William Delafield Cook AM (1936–2015) was an Australian artist who was known for his photorealistic landscapes. He won a number of awards, including the Order of Australia. Early life Delafield Cook was born in Melbourne, Australia on 28 Feb ...

(1936–2015): artist * Justine Cooper (born 1968): animator, video artist, photographer *

William T. Cooper William Thomas "Bill" Cooper AO (6 April 1934 – 10 May 2015) was an Australian artist. William was born in Adamstown NSW Australia to Coral Bird and William Cooper. He had one brother, Buddy Cooper. He was originally a self-taught lands ...

(1934–2015): scientific painter of birds, recipient of a Gold Medal for Distinction in Natural History Art from The Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University * Yvette Coppersmith (born 1980): painter *

Edith Corbet Edith Corbet née Edenborough (28 December 1846 – 1920) was a Victorian landscape painter, having close associations with the Macchiaioli group (also known as the Tuscans or Etruscans), who, in a break with tradition, painted outdoors in ord ...

(1846–1920): landscape painter *

Olive Cotton Olive Cotton (11 July 191127 September 2003) was a pioneering Australian modernist photographer of the 1930s and 1940s working in Sydney. Cotton became a national "name" with a retrospective and touring exhibition 50 years later in 1985. A book ...

(1911–2003): photographer *

Noel Counihan Noel Counihan (4 October 19135 July 1986) was an Australian social realist painter, printmaker, cartoonist and illustrator active in the 1940s and 1950s in Melbourne. An atheist, communist, and art activist, Counihan made art in response to the p ...

(1913–1986):

social realist Social realism is the term used for work produced by painters, printmakers, photographers, writers and filmmakers that aims to draw attention to the real socio-political conditions of the working class as a means to critique the power structure ...

painter * Virginia Coventry (born 1942): photographer *

Theodora Cowan Theodora Esther Cowan (Theo) (1868–1949) was an Australian artist, regarded as the first Australian-born woman sculptor. She was one of a number of women sculptors who were working at the end of the 19th century. Apart from being the first t ...

(1868–1949): sculptor, painter * Steve Cox (born 1958): painter and watercolourist * Sybil Mary Frances Craig (1901–1989): painter *

Fred Cress Frederick Harold Cress (10 July 1938 – 14 October 2009) was a British painter who migrated to Australia and won the Archibald Prize in 1988 with a portrait of John Stanley Beard, John Beard. Cress was born in Pune, Poona, British Raj, but w ...

(1938–2009): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1988 * Brenda Croft (born 1964): artist, photographer, curator *

Peggie Crombie Peggie (or Peggy) Crombie (1901–1984) was an Australian modernist painter. She was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Biography Crombie was born in 1901 in Melbourne, Australia. In 1921 she studied art at Stot ...

(1901–1984): painter *

Ray Crooke Ray Austin Crooke (12 July 19225 December 2015) was an Australian artist known for his landscapes. He won the Archibald Prize in 1969 with a portrait of George Johnston. Early life Ray Crooke was born in Auburn, Victoria in 1922. He spent time ...

(1922–2015): portrait artist, Archibald Prize winner in 1969 *

Grace Crowley Grace Adela Williams Crowley (pr: as in "slowly") (28 May 1890 – 21 April 1979) was an Australian artist and modernist painter. Early life and education Grace Crowley was born in May 1890 in Barraba, New South Wales. She was the fourth chi ...

(1890–1979):

abstract art Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19th ...

ist * Francis R. Crozier (1883–1948): war records artist *

Adam Cullen Adam Frederick Cullen (9 October 1965 – 28 July 2012) was an Australian artist, most known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2000 with a portrait of actor David Wenham. He was also known for his controversial subjects and his distincti ...

(1965–2012): artist, winner of the Archibald Prize in 2000 * Frank Cullen (1926–2010) landscape artist *

Janet Cumbrae Stewart Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart (23 December 1883 – 8 September 1960) was an Australian painter. She spent the 1920s and 1930s painting in Britain, France and Italy. Biography Cumbrae Stewart was born on 23 December 1883 in Brighton, Victoria, A ...

(1883–1960): painter * Elisabeth Cummings (born 1934): multi-award-winning artist and teacher *

James Waltham Curtis James Waltham Curtis (c. 1839 – 18 September 1901), possibly born Charles James Waltham Curtis, was an English-born painter, illustrator, and photographic colourist who became an early practitioner of a distinctively Australian style of art. ...

(c. 1839–1901): painter, illustrator, and photographic colourist Back to top

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Ante Dabro Ante Dabro (born 13 January 1938, Čavoglave, Croatia) is a Croatian-born Australian artist/sculptor and art teacher who has lived and worked in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory since the late 1960s. Dabro's sculptures are typified by ...

(born 1938): Croatian-born artist/sculptor and art teacher * Johnnie Dady (born 1961): installation artist *

Lindsay Daen Lindsay Daen (1923–2001), was a New Zealand sculptor and artist who worked and resided in Puerto Rico. Daen created landmark sculptures in Puerto Rico, Australia and the United States. He was a member of the Royal Art Society in Sydney, whose a ...

(1923–2001): New Zealand-born sculptor and artist * John Dahlsen (born 1963): contemporary environmental artist *

Richard Daintree Richard Daintree CMG (13 December 1832 – 20 June 1878) was a pioneering Australian geologist and photographer. In particular, Daintree was the first Government geologist for North Queensland discovering gold fields and coal seams for future ...

(1832–1878): photographer *

Roy Dalgarno Frederick Leslie Roy Dalgarno (2 December 1910 – 1 February 2001) was an Australian social realist artist. Early life, education and training Born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia) in 1910, Dalgarno was educated at Ballarat Grammar School. Fro ...

(1910–2001):

artist * Anne Dangar (1885–1951): painter, potter *

Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels (1936–2004) was an Australian Aboriginal ritual leader, Warlipiri speaker, renowned artist, and land -rights advocate for the Warlipiri people of the Northern Territory. Early life Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels was born ...

(1936–2004): painter *

Aleks Danko Aleks Danko (born 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art (University of South Australia) and the Hawthorn Institute of Edu ...

(born 1950): performance artist and sculptor *

Alfred James Daplyn Alfred James Daplyn (1844 – 19 July 1926) was an English-born Australian artist. Born in London, Daplyn studied there at the Slade School of Fine Art, the National Academy in New York City, under Jean-Léon Gérôme at École nationale supér ...

(1844–1926): painter *

William Dargie Captain (armed forces), Captain Sir William Alexander Dargie (4 June 1912 – 26 July 2003) was a renowned Australian painter, known especially for his portrait paintings. He won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait ...

(1912–2003): painter especially of portrait paintings who won the

eight times * Vicki Darken (1923–2014): landscape painter *

Bessie Davidson Bessie Ellen Davidson (1879–1965) was an Australian painter known for her impressionist, light-filled landscapes and interiors. Early life and education Bessie Ellen Davidson was born on 22 May 1879 in North Adelaide, South Australia, to a fa ...

(1879–1965): painter * David Davies (1864–1939): painter * Edward Davies (1852–1927): architect and arts administrator * Olive Blanche Davies (1884–1976/7): botanical illustrator *

Paul Davies Paul Charles William Davies (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University and Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the Institute ...

(born 1979): artist * John Davis (1936–1999): sculptor * John (Francis) Davis (born 1958): artist *

Lawrence Daws Lawrence Daws (born 1927) is an Australian painter and printmaker, who works in the media of oil, watercolour, drawing, screenprints, etchings and monotypes. In the 1980s he started making computer prints, and was possibly the first establi ...

(born 1927): painter and

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

, drawing,

screenprint Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh ...

etching Etching is traditionally the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (incised) in the metal. In modern manufacturing, other chemicals may be used on other types ...

s and

monotype Monotyping is a type of printmaking made by drawing or painting on a smooth, non-absorbent surface. The surface, or matrix (printing), matrix, was historically a copper etching plate, but in contemporary work it can vary from zinc or glass to ac ...

s *

Janet Dawson Janet Dawson MBE (born 1935) is an Australian artist who was a pioneer of abstract painting in Australia in the 1960s, having been introduced to abstraction during studies in England while she lived in Europe 1957–1960 She was also an accomp ...

(born 1935): painter * Charles Hubert de Castella (1825–1907): Swiss-Australian writer, artist and winemaker *

Geoffrey de Groen Geoffrey de Groen (born December 1938) is an Australian artist known for his abstract works in oil and acrylics. De Groen's paintings are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery ...

(born 1938): painter of

Roy De Maistre Roy De Maistre CBE (27 March 18941 March 1968) was an Australian artist of international fame. He is renowned in Australian art for his early experimentation with "colour-music", and is recognised as the first Australian artist to use pure abst ...

(1894–1968): artist who explored the relationship of colour harmony to musical harmony *

Destiny Deacon Destiny Deacon (born 1957) is an Indigenous Australian photographer and media artist. She has exhibited photographs and films across Australia and also internationally, focusing on politics and exposing the disparagement around Indigenous Austr ...

(born 1957): photographer * Andrew Dearman: photographer *

Wolfgang Degenhardt Wolfgang Degenhardt (19 May 1924 – 8 November 1993) was an artist, prominent in Newcastle located in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. Husband of Irene Degenhardt (17 August 1921 - 22 March 2016). Degenhardt was born in Germany ...

(1924–1993): German-born artist often of religious art * Dennis Del Favero (born 1953): artist and academic *

Paul Delprat Paul Ashton Delprat (born 1942) is an Australian artist and the Principal of The Julian Ashton Art School, Sydney's oldest continuous fine art school. His art is held in the National Gallery of Australia and in state, municipal and university ...

(born 1942): painter and illustrator, Principal of the

Julian Ashton Art School The Julian Ashton Art School was established by Julian Ashton in 1890 as the "Academy Julian", (perhaps a reference to the Académie Julian in Paris) has been an influential art school in Australia. For a long time it was known as the Sydney Art ...

Linda Dement Linda Dement (born 1960 in Brisbane) is an Australian multidisciplinary artist, working in the fields of digital arts, photography, film, and writing non-fiction. Dement is largely known for her exploration of the creative possibilities of emerge ...

(born 1960): photographer, digital artist *

Aileen Dent Aileen Rose Dent (1890 – 30 March 1978) was an Australian artist known for her portraits, specifically her portrait of Australian aviator Jean Burns. Biography Dent was born in 1890 in Deniliquin, New South Wales. From 1909 to 1916 she was ...

(1890–1978): painter *

Stuart Devlin Stuart Leslie Devlin (9 October 1931 – 12 April 2018) was an Australian artist and metalworker who specialised in gold and silver. He designed coins for countries around the world, and became especially well known as London-based design ...

(1931–2018): artist and metalworker * William Dexter (1818–1860): English-Australian painter * Maggie Diaz (1925–2016): photographer *

Robert Dickerson Robert Henry Dickerson (30 March 1924 – 18 October 2015) was an Australian figurative painter and former member of the Antipodeans group of artists. Dickerson is one of Australia's most recognised figurative artists and one of a generation of ...

(1924–2015): figurative painter * Desmond Digby (1933–2015): New Zealand-born stage designer, painter and illustrator of children's books *

Silvester Diggles Silvester Diggles (24 January 1817 – 21 March 1880) was an Australian artist and musician of British origin, as well as being a noted amateur ornithologist and entomologist. Biography Diggles was born in Liverpool, Lancashire and married Eliz ...

(1817–1880): artist and musician *

William Dobell Sir William Dobell (24 September 189913 May 1970) was an Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named ...

(1899–1970): sculptor and painter who won the

three times * James Dodd (born 1977): painter, sculptor and street artist *

Ken Done Kenneth Stephen Done (born 29 June 1940) is an Australian artist best known for his design work. Although his simple, brightly coloured images of Australian landmarks have adorned a very popular range of clothing and homewares sold under the "D ...

(born 1940): artist, especially of design work *

Annie Dorrington Annie Dorrington (19 March 1866 – 21 April 1926) was an Australian artist who was known for her wildflower paintings and watercolours. She is also one of the designers of the Australian flag. Early life On 19 March 1866, Annie Whistler was bo ...

(1866–1926): painter, flag designer *

Matt Doust Matthew "Matt" Doust (1984 – 28 August 2013) was an internationally renowned American-born Australian hyper-realistic artist who was a finalist in the 2011 Archibald Prize, for his work on a portrait Australian actress and fashion model G ...

(1984–2013): artist, finalist in the 2011 Archibald Prize * John Dowie (1915–2008): painter, sculptor and teacher * Julie Dowling (born 1969):

Badimaya The Badimaya people (also written Badimia) are an Aboriginal Australian people from the Mid West region of Western Australia. Country Traditional Badimaya country was calculated by Norman Tindale to encompass approximately , and is bordered by t ...

Australian artist *

Robert Hawker Dowling Robert Hawker Dowling (1827 – 8 July 1886) was an Australian colonial artist. Biography Dowling was born in England the youngest son of Rev. Henry Dowling and his wife Elizabeth, ''née'' Darke. He was brought to Launceston, Tasmania with hi ...

(1827–1886): colonial artist *

Russell Drysdale Sir George Russell Drysdale (7 February 1912 – 29 June 1981), also known as Tass Drysdale, was an Australian artist. He won the prestigious Wynne Prize for ''Sofala'' in 1947, and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1954. He was i ...

(1912–1981): painter of abstract and surrealist art * William Duke (1814–1853): Irish-born Australian artist *

Karl Duldig Karl (Karol) Duldig (29 December 1902 – 11 August 1986) was a Jewish modernist sculptor.

(1902–1986): Austrian-Australian sculptor *

Slawa Duldig Slawa Duldig née Horowitz (28 November 1901– 16 August 1975) was an inventor, artist, interior designer, and teacher. In 1928, as Slawa Horowitz, she created a design for an improved compact folding umbrella, which she patented in 1929. Slawa w ...

(1901–1975): Austrian-Australian inventor, artist, interior designer and teacher *

Brian Dunlop Brian Dunlop (1938–2009) was a still life and figurative painter born in Sydney, Australia. He won the Sulman Prize in 1980 for ''The Old Physics Building (genre painting)''. He was a finalist in the 2004 Archibald Prize with ''Brian Kenna: ...

(1938–2009): still life and figurative painter *

Jan Dunn (ceramicist) Jan Dunn (23 May 1940 – 15 May 2002) born in Springvale, Victoria, Australia, was a potter, ceramicist and teacher. Ceramics biography Art education Dunn graduated from the former Canberra School of Art in 1979 with a Diploma of Visual Arts ...

(1940–2002): ceramicist *

Frank Dunne Lawrence Francis Dunne (1898 – 23 December 1937), generally known as "Frank" but also as "Beau" was an Australian cartoonist, born in Boorowa, near Harden, New South Wales. While apprenticed as a process-engraver in 1914, at the outbreak of ...

(1898–1937): cartoonist *

Max Dupain Maxwell Spencer Dupain AC OBE (22 April 191127 July 1992) was an Australian modernist photographer. Early life Dupain received his first camera as a gift in 1924, spurring his interest in photography. He later joined the Photographic Society ...

(1911–1992): photographer *

Elizabeth Durack Elizabeth Durack Clancy CMG, OBE (6 July 1915 – 25 May 2000) was a Western Australian artist and writer. Early life Born in the Perth suburb of Claremont on 6 July 1915, she was a daughter of Kimberley pioneer, Michael Patrick Durack ...

(1915–2000): Western Australian artist and writer *

Ivan Durrant Ivan Durrant is an Australian painter, performance artist and writer. Known for creating art with "great shock value", such as the 1975 "Slaughtered Cow Happening" outside the National Gallery of Victoria, Durrant is often described as the ''e ...

(born 1947): painter, performance artist and writer * Benjamin Duterrau (1768–1851): English painter, etcher, engraver, sculptor and art lecturer who emigrated to Tasmania * Ludwik Dutkiewicz (1921–2008): Ukrainian-born naturalized Australian artist * Władysław Dutkiewicz (1918–1999): Polish-born naturalized Australian artist *

Olive Dutton Green Olive Dutton Green (February 1878 – 5 July 1930) was a noted Australian artist, born in Adelaide, a daughter of politician and real-estate agent George Dutton Green (1850–1911). She moved to London around 1910. She studied under Frank Spe ...

(1878–1930): painter *

Geoffrey Dyer Geoffrey Dyer (1947 – 7 October 2020) was an Australian artist. He was born and died in Hobart, Tasmania. Career He won the Archibald Prize in 2003 with a portrait of Richard Flanagan. He was a finalist of the 2011 Archibald Prize The Ar ...

(born 1947): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2003 *

Moya Dyring Moya Dyring (10 February 1909 – 4 January 1967) was an Australian artist. She was one of the first women artists to embrace Modernism and exhibit cubist paintings in Melbourne. For several years she was a member of the modern art community ...

(1909–1967): painter *

Ambrose Dyson Ambrose Dyson (1876 – 4 June 1913), often known as Amb Dyson was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist, born at Alfredton, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the son of George Dyson, then a hawker and later a mining engineer, an ...

(1876–1913): illustrator and political cartoonist *

Will Dyson William Henry Dyson (3 September 1880 – 21 January 1938) was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist. In 1931 he was regarded as "one of the world's foremost black and white artists", and in 1980, "Australia's greatest cartoonist" ...

(1880–1938): illustrator Back to top

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Augustus Earle Augustus Earle (1793–1838) was a British painter. Unlike earlier artists who worked outside Europe and were employed on voyages of exploration or worked abroad for wealthy, often aristocratic patrons, Earle was able to operate quite indepen ...

(1793–1832): London-born travel artist who spent time painting in Australia * Stephen Eastaugh (born 1960): artist *

Lindsay Edward Lindsay M. Edward (1919–2007) was an Australian abstract artist, mosaicist and teacher. He was born in Victoria on 26 August 1919. Edward studied at the National Gallery Art School from 1938 to 1941 under Charles Wheeler and W.B. McInnes. F ...

(1919–2007): abstract artist, mosaicist and teacher * Agnes Edwards (c. 1873–1928): Aboriginal handicraft maker known for feather flowers. * Margery Edwards (1933–1989): mixed media artist, painter *

Sandy Edwards Sandra Edwards (born 1948) is an Australian photographer. Edwards specialises in documentary photography and photographic curation. Born in Bluff, New Zealand in 1948 Edwards arrived in Sydney in 1961. Edwards was at the forefront of a group ...

(born 1948): photographer *

Bonita Ely Bonita Ely (born 1946) is an Australian multidisciplinary artist who lives in Sydney, whose work has been internationally exhibited. She established her reputation as an environmental artist in the early 1970s through her works concerning the ...

(born 1946): performance artist *

Esther Erlich Esther Erlich (born 1955) is a Melbourne-based Australian artist who has been exhibiting since 1985. She won the 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with her painting, "Gaunt and Glorious" a portrait of Steve Moneghetti. In 2000 Esther won the ...

: figurative painter, winner 1998 Moran prize and 2000 Archibald People's Choice Award * Jessie Lavington Evans (1860–1943), painter * Joyce Evans (1929–2019): photographer * Lina Eve (born 1946): figurative painter, singer/songwriter, photographer, and film maker * Miles Evergood (1871–1939): artist * Raymond Boultwood "Ray" Ewers (1917–1998): sculptor *

Gladstone Eyre Gladstone Eyre (11 June 1862 – 2 May 1933) was an Australian portrait artist and landscape painter around Sydney, New South Wales and Launceston, Tasmania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early life William James Gladstone Eyre w ...

(1862–1933): portrait artist and landscape painter *

John Eyre John Eyre may refer to: Politicians *John Eyre (died 1581), Member of Parliament for Wiltshire and Salisbury *John Eyre (died 1639), MP for Cricklade * John Eyre (1659–1709), MP for Galway Borough, son of the above *John Eyre (died 1745), MP for ...

(1771–?): painter and engraver Back to top

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* Facter, aka Fletcher Andersen: street artist/painter * David Fairbairn (born 1949): painter and printmaker *

Ian Fairweather Ian Fairweather (29 September 189120 May 1974) was a Scottish painter resident in Australia for much of his life. He combined western and Asian influences in his work. Life Ian Fairweather was born in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland in ...

(1891–1974): painter who combined western and Asian influences in his work *

Adrian Feint Adrian George Feint (28 June 1894 – 25 April 1971) was an Australian artist. He worked in various media, and is noted for his bookplate designs. Education and military service Feint was born in Narrandera, New South Wales. He studied at S ...

(1894–1971): artist, noted for his bookplate designs * Susan Fereday (born 1959): artist, photographer *

Anne Ferran Anne Ferran (born 1949) is an Australian photographer. Background Anne Ferran was born on 10 May 1949Newton, Gael (1988). Shades of Light. Canberra: Australian National Gallery. p. 157. . in Sydney, New South Wales.Judd, Craig. Anne Ferran's bir ...

(born 1949): photographer * Simon Fieldhouse (born 1956): painter of

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

with whimsical characters * George Edmond Finey (1895–1987): New Zealand born artist * Gerald Fitzgerald (1873–1935): artist * Paul Desmond Fitzgerald (1922–2017): portrait painter *

Maude Edith Victoria Fleay Maude Edith Victoria Glover Fleay (1869–1965), was one of Australia's first wildlife artists. She was known for her paintings of Australian marsupials. Biography Fleay was born in 1869 in Sulky Gully, Australia. She studied drawing at the Sc ...

(1869–1965): painter * Herbert 'Bert' Flugelman (1923–2013): sculptor *

Paul Foelsche Paul Foelsche (30 March 1831 – 31 January 1914) was a South Australian police officer and photographer born in Germany,Noye, R. J.'Foelsche, Paul Heinrich Matthias (1831–1914)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of ...

(1931–1914): photographer *

Ellis D Fogg Ellis D Fogg was the pseudonym of the Australian artist Roger Foley (born 24 January 1942). Now known as Roger Foley-Fogg, the National Film and Sound Archive has described him as Australia's "most innovative lighting designer and lumino kinetic ...

aka Roger Foley (born 1942): Lumino Kinetic, Light Artist *

Fiona Foley Fiona Foley (born 1964) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from K'gari (Fraser Island), Queensland. Foley is known for her activity as an academic, cultural and community leader and for co-founding the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-o ...

(born 1964): indigenous artist from Badtjala *

George Frederick Folingsby George Frederick Folingsby (23 August 1828 – 4 January 1891) was an Irish-born Australian painter and art educator. Folingsby was born in the County of Wicklow, Ireland. At the age of 18 he emigrated to Canada. Later he went to New York Cit s ...

(1828–1891): Irish born Australian painter and art educator *

Nicholas Folland Nicholas (Nic) Folland is a South Australian artist and arts educator. He is Head of Contemporary Studies and Sculpture at Adelaide Central School of Art, a Samstag scholar (awarded 1999), and subject of the 2014 SALA Festival monograph, ''Nic ...

(born 1967): sculptor and arts educator * Sue Ford (1943–2009): photographer *

Haughton Forrest Haughton Forrest (30 December 1826, Boulogne-sur-Mer – 20 January 1925, Melton Mowbray), sometimes incorrectly referred to as James Haughton Forrest, was an Australian artist who specialized in landscapes and maritime scenes. Biography He w ...

(1826–1925): artist *

E. Phillips Fox Emanuel Phillips Fox (12 March 1865 – 8 October 1915) was an Australian impressionism, impressionist painter. After studying at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School in Melbourne, Fox travelled to Paris to study in 1886. He remained in ...

(1865–1915): Naturalist painter * Ivor Pengelly Francis (1906–1993): artist, art critic and teacher *

Dale Frank Dale Frank (born 1959 in Singleton, New South Wales) is an Australian contemporary artist best known for his biomorphic abstract paintings. His practice has included found object-sculptures, performance installations, drawings and most recently ...

(born 1959): contemporary artist *

Graham Fransella Graham Fransella (born 3 June 1950) is an Australian figurative and abstract painter. Life Fransella was born in Harrow, England. He studied at the Bradford School of Art, Yorkshire in the early 1970s, before moving to Melbourne, Australia, ...

(born 1950): figurative and abstract painter *

William Frater William Frater (1890–1974) was a Scottish-born Australian stained-glass designer and modernist painter who challenged conservative tastes in Australian art. Early life and education Scotland William Frater was born on 31 January 1890 a ...

(1890–1974), Scottish-born stained-glass designer and modernist painter * Kristian Fredrikson (1940–2005): New Zealand-born stage and costume designer *

Harold Freedman Harold Emanuel Freedman O.A.M. (21 May 1915 – 16 July 1999) was an artist from Victoria, Australia, renowned as an illustrator and lithographer, as an official war artist, and for his work in public murals. Early life Harold Freedman's ...

(1915–1999): artist, renowned for his work in public murals *

Leonard French Leonard William French OBE (8 October 1928 – 10 January 2017) was an Australian artist, known principally for major stained glass works. French was born in Brunswick, Victoria to a family of Cornish origin. His stained glass creation ...

(1928–2017): painter and

stained glass Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although tradition ...

artist * Zoe Freney: painter, arts writer and arts educator * Thomas Friedensen (1879–1931): English-born artist in

and oils, active in Australia *

Donald Friend Donald Stuart Leslie Friend (6 February 1915 – 16 August 1989) was an Australian artist and diarist who lived much of his life overseas. He has been the subject of controversy since the posthumous publication of diaries in which he wrote of sex ...

(1915–1989): artist, writer and

diarist A diary is a written or audiovisual record with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period. Diaries have traditionally been handwritten but are now also often digital. A personal ...

Frederick Frith Frederick Frith (1819-1871) was an English painter and photographer. He began his career in England but later moved to Australia where he lived in Hobart and Melbourne. Early career and partnership Frederick Frith was born in the United Ki ...

(1819–1871): English-born painter and photographer * Douglas Fry (1872–1911): artist, especially of animal paintings *

Ella Fry Ella Fry (née Robinson) (1916–1997) was an artist, musician, and chairperson of the Western Australian Art Gallery, in Perth, Western Australia from 1976 to 1986. She was born in Brisbane in 1916 and educated at Brisbane Girls Grammar School. ...

(1916–1997): painter *

Merrick Fry Merrick Fry is an Australian artist who was born in Bathurst in 1950. Fry studied at the East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School) from 1970 to 1972, graduating in 1973 In 1985, Fry wrote and illustrated Stick in the Mud. In t ...

(born 1950): artist *

Sam Fullbrook Sam Fullbrook (14 April 1922 – 3 February 2004) was an Australian artist who was a winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture and the Wynne Prize for landscape. He was described as "last of the bushman painters"Archibald Prize The Archibald Prize is an Australian portraiture art prize for painting, generally seen as the most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. It was first awarded in 1921 after the receipt of a bequest from J. F. Archibald, J. F. Archib ...

in 1974 *

Florence Fuller Florence Ada Fuller (1867 – 17 July 1946) was a South African-born Australian artist. Originally from Port Elizabeth, Fuller migrated as a child to Melbourne with her family. There she trained with her uncle Robert Hawker Dowling and teacher ...

(1867–1946): painter *

Albert Henry Fullwood Albert Henry Fullwood (15 March 1863 – 1 October 1930) was an Australian artist who made a significant contribution to art in Australia. He painted with Heidelberg School artists around Melbourne and moved with Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton ...

(1863–1930): artist who worked in black and white, oils, and

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Kiley Gaffney Kiley Joy Gaffney is an Australian rock musician and performance artist. Before signing to Warner (WEA) in 1995, she worked in theatre (acting and singing) and the art world (performance). She released two albums with Warner, ''Bitter Fluff'' ...

(born 1970): performance artist, musician * Ian Gardiner (1943–2008): artist * Silvana Gardner: visual artist, writer *

Rosalie Gascoigne Rosalie Norah King Gascoigne (née Walker; 25 January 191725 October 1999) was a New Zealand-born Australian sculptor and assemblage artist. She showed at the Venice Biennale in 1982, becoming the first female artist to represent Australia there ...

(1917–1999): sculptor, primarily of found materials *

Marea Gazzard Marea Gazzard (02 June 1928 – 28 October 2013) was an Australian sculptor and ceramicist. Life and work Born Marea Medis in Sydney, Australia, Gazzard studied ceramics at the East Sydney Technical College, now the National Art School, from ...

(1928–2013): sculptor, ceramist *

Esmond George Robert Esmond George (20 April 1888 – 1959) was an Australian theatre actor and director, but mostly remembered as a watercolor artist and art critic. His wife, professionally known as Elizabeth George, was a well-known journalist. History Esmo ...

(1888–1959): SA watercolor artist, World War II war artist and art critic *

Francis Giacco Francis Giacco (born 1955) is an Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1994 with ''Homage to John Reichard''. Giacco has a Bachelor of Architecture from the UNSW and is a longtime teacher at the Julian Ashton Art School, The Rocks, Sy ...

(born 1955): artist who won the

in 1993–1994 *

Geoff Gibbons Geoff Gibbons is a South Australian artist, printmaker, and arts educator. He is a founder of Bittondi Printmakers Association and a lecturer at Adelaide Central School of Art. Biography Geoff Gibbons was born in 1947 in Adelaide, South Au ...

(born 1947): printmaker and arts educator *

May Gibbs Cecilia May Gibbs MBE (17 January 1877 – 27 November 1969) was an Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist. She is best known for her gumnut babies (also known as "bush babies" or "bush fairies"), and the book ''Snugglepot a ...

(1877–1969): English Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist *

Charles Web Gilbert Charles Marsh Webb (Nash) Gilbert (18 March 1867 – 3 October 1925), known professionally as C. Web Gilbert, was a self-taught Australian sculptor renowned both within Australia and abroad. Gilbert was born at Cockatoo in Victoria, between Talb ...

(1867–1925): sculptor * Jeff Gilberthorpe (born 1939): English-born artist and art teacher * Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles (1944–2010): Manyjilyjarra painter *

Harry Pelling Gill Harry Pelling Gill (9 March 1855 – 25 May 1916), commonly referred to as H. P. Gill or Harry P. Gill, was an English-born Australian art curator, teacher and painter, who lived in Adelaide, South Australia for much of his life. Background Gil ...

(1855–1916): English-born artist and art teacher *

S. T. Gill Samuel Thomas Gill, also known by his signature S.T.G., was an English-born Australian artist. Early life Gill was born in Periton, Minehead, Somerset, England, in 1818. He was the son of the Reverend Samuel Gill, a Baptist minister, and his f ...

(1818–1880): English-born

draughtsman A draughtsman (British spelling) or draftsman (American spelling) may refer to: * An architectural drafter, who produced architectural drawings until the late 20th century * An artist who produces drawings that rival or surpass their other types ...

painter, and photographer *

George Gittoes George Noel Gittoes, (born 7 December 1949) is an Australian artist, film producer, director and writer. In 1970, he was a founder of the Yellow House Artist Collective in Sydney. After the Yellow House finished, he established himself in Bu ...

(born 1949): war artist using painting, drawing, photographs and video *

Shaun Gladwell Shaun Gladwell (born 1972) is an Australian contemporary artist whose work spans moving image, painting, photography, sculpture, installation, performance and virtual reality. Early life Gladwell was born in Sydney in 1972 and graduated from Syd ...

(born 1972): video, performance, painting and sculpture *

Michaela Gleave Michaela Gleave (born 1980) is a Sydney-based Australian conceptual artist best known for her use of light and her monumental site specific art works engaging with space, time and matter. She was a 2012-2013 artist-in-residence at CSIRO Astronom ...

(born 1980); conceptual installations *

James Gleeson James Timothy Gleeson (21 November 1915 – 20 October 2008) was an Australian artist. He served on the board of the National Gallery of Australia. Early life Gleeson was born in the Sydney district of Hornsby in 1915 and attended East Sydn ...

(1915–2008):

surrealist Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to l ...

artist, poet, critic, writer and curator * Harry Glover (artist) (c. 1810–1858): English artist in South Australia * Henry H. Glover (c. 1827–1904): Australian artist, son of above *

John Glover (artist) John Glover (18 February 1767 – 9 December 1849) was an English-born artist. In later life he migrated to Van Diemen’s Land and became a pastoralist during the early colonial period. He has been dubbed "the father of Australian landscape p ...

(1767–1849): English artist in Tasmania, not related *

Duncan Goldfinch Duncan Alexander Macarthur Goldfinch (20 September 1888 – 1960) was a South Australian painter, noted for his watercolors of Central Australia. History Duncan was born in the Sydney suburb of St Marys the eldest son of Elizabeth M. Goldfinch, ...

(1888–1960): painter * John Charles Goodchild (1898–1980): painter and art educator *

Agnes Goodsir Agnes Noyes Goodsir (18 June 1864 – 11 August 1939) was an Australian portrait painter who lived in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Biography Goodsir was born in Portland, Victoria, Australia, one of eleven children born to David James Cook Go ...

(1864–1939): portrait painter * Richard Goodwin (born 1953): artist, architect and professor of fine arts and design *

Julie Gough Julie Gough (born 1965) is an artist, writer and curator based in Tasmania, Australia. Early life and education Gough was born in 1965 in Melbourne. Her paternal heritage is Scottish and Irish, while her maternal Aboriginal heritage is of ...

(born 1965): artist, writer and curator *

William Buelow Gould William Buelow Gould (1801 – 11 December 1853) was an English and Van Diemonian (Tasmanian) painter. He was transported to Australia as a convict in 1827, after which he would become one of the most important early artists in the colony, desp ...

(1801–1853): English painter

transported ''Transported'' is an Australian convict melodrama film directed by W. J. Lincoln. It is considered a lost film. Plot In England, Jessie Grey is about to marry Leonard Lincoln but the evil Harold Hawk tries to force her to marry him and she wou ...

Van Diemen's Land Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration of Australia in the 19th century. A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land in 1803 before it became a sepa ...

in 1826 *

Peter Gouldthorpe Peter James Gouldthorpe (born 30 July 1954) is an Australian artist and author best known for his children's books. He lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania with his wife, Jennie, and has two children. Early life Gouldthorpe was born in Melbo ...

(born 1954): artist, children's picture book author and illustrator *

James William Govett James William Govett (1910 – 11 July 1998) was an Australian impressionist who worked mostly in watercolor Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian dim ...

(1910–11 July 1998): impressionist painter *

Peter Benjamin Graham Peter Benjamin Graham (4 June 1925 – 15 April 1987), was an Australian visual artist, printer, and art theorist. In 1954, Graham began to explore native Australian wildlife (notably Kangaroos) and themes associated with Aboriginal culture, ...

(1925–1987): visual artist, printer, and art theorist * Peter Sebastian Graham (born 1970): artist, painter, printmaker and sculptor *

Alma Nungarrayi Granites Alma Nungarrayi Granites (1955-2017), a Warlpiri woman, was an Australian artist. She lived at Yuendumu, and was known for painting ''Yanjirlpirri'', also Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa or Napaljarri-Warnu, Seven Sisters Dreaming Star Dreaming. Works ...

(1955–2017): artist *

Siv Grava Siv Grava (born 1954), who lives in Elliston, South Australia, is an Australian artist. Grava won the 1992 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for ''Self Portrait''. Collections Her works are held in the collections of the Australian Catholic ...

(born 1967): artist, winner of Doug Moran National Portrait Prize * Virginia Grayson (born 1967): visual artist, winner of the Dobell Drawing Prize *

Sasha Grbich Sasha Grbich ( ) is a South Australia installation artist, arts writer and arts educator. She is a 2018 Samstag Scholar and lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art. Biography Grbich graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art in 2003 ...

: installation artist * Denise Green (born 1946): painter *

Jillian Green Jillian Frances Green (born 1975) is an Australian artist, whose work references Christian art, particularly illuminated manuscripts and Russian iconography. Her studies and work reflect this continuing interest in philosophical and theologic ...

(born 1975); artist *

(1878–1930): artist * Rona Green (born 1972): artist *

Tom Green Michael Thomas Green (born July 30, 1971) is a Canadian-American comedian, show host, actor, filmmaker, podcaster, and rapper. After pursuing stand-up comedy and music as a young adult, Green created and hosted ''The Tom Green Show'', which a ...

(1913–1981): painter, printmaker and art teacher *

Victor Greenhalgh Victor Greenhalgh (1900–1983) was an Australian sculptor and teacher. He was commissioned to sculpt the King George V statue in Ballarat, Victoria, as well as eight of the portrait busts of Australian Prime Ministers which line the "Avenue ...

(1900–1983): sculptor and teacher *

Francis Greenway Francis Howard Greenway (20 November 1777 – September 1837) was an English-born architect who was transported to Australia as a convict for the crime of forgery. In New South Wales he worked for the Governor, Lachlan Macquarie, as Australia's ...

(1777–1837): English-born architect *

Guy Grey-Smith Guy Grey-Smith () was an Australian painter, printmaker and ceramicist. Grey-Smith pioneered modernism in Western Australia, and has been described as "one of Australia's most significant artists of the 20th century". Biography Early life Guy ...

(1916–1981): painter, printmaker and ceramicist * Vaughan Murray Griffin (1903–1992): print maker and painter * Mabel "May" Grigg (1885–1969): painter * Henry Gritten (c. 1818–1873): English painter * Ann Grocott (born 1938): writer and painter *

Elioth Gruner Elioth Lauritz Leganyer Gruner (16 December 1882 – 17 October 1939) was an Australian artist. Gruner won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting seven times, the most of any Australian artist besides Hans Heysen. One of Gruner's winners of th ...

(1882–1939): New Zealand-born painter, winner of the

seven times *

Rob Gutteridge Rob Gutteridge (born 1954) is a South Australian artist and arts educator. As well as teaching at Adelaide Central School of Art, Gutteridge runs the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism. Biography Gutteridge was born in West Bromwich ...

(born 1954): English-born painter and arts educator * Marjorie Gwynne (1886-1958): painter *

Harold Frederick Neville Gye Harold Frederick Neville Gye (22 May 1887 — 25 November 1967), who published under the name Hal Gye, was an author of cartoons, illustrations and articles for early Australian newspapers and journals. Gye provided the artwork for ''The Songs of ...

(1888–1967): cartoonist Back to top

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Emma Hack Emma Hack (born 1972) is an Australian visual artist known for her photographs of painted naked human bodies that visually merge with a patterned background wall, producing a chameleon-like camouflage effect. Her technique was developed in the ea ...

(born 1972): photographer *

Basil Hadley Basil Hadley (1940 in London, England – 2006 in Stepney, South Australia, Stepney, Adelaide) was an English Australian Printmaking, printmaker and painter. His works are represented in National and State public galleries around Australia and ...

(1940–2006): born London, UK, arrived to Australia in 1965, printmaker and painter * Robert Hague (born 1967): New Zealand-born artist * Fiona Hall (born 1953): contemporary visual artist *

Lindsay Bernard Hall Lindsay Bernard Hall (28 December 1859 – 14 February 1935) was an English-born Australian artist, teacher and art gallery director. Early life and career Hall was born at Garston, Liverpool, England, the son of a broker of the same famil ...

(1859–1935): English-born Australian artist and art gallery director * Deborah Halpern (born 1957): sculptor, mosaic artist, ceramist * Stanislav "Stacha" Halpern (1919–1969): Polish Australian painter and sculptor * Michelle Hamer (born 1975): tapestry artist * Lyn Hancock: photographer, writer * Henry Hanke (1901–1989): artist who won the

in 1934 * Marjorie Hann (1916–2011): South Australian cartoonist, painter and art teacher *

Robert Hannaford Robert Lyall "Alfie" Hannaford , (born 9 November 1944) is an Australian realist artist notable for his drawings, paintings, portraits and sculptures. He is a great-great-great-grandson of Susannah Hannaford. Family Hannaford was born a ...

(born 1944): realist artist *

Barbara Hanrahan Barbara Janice Hanrahan (1939–1991) was an Australian artist, printmaker and writer whose work featured relationships, women, women's issues and feminist ideology. Hanrahan was also known for her writings and short stories featuring coming ...

(1939–1991): artist, printmaker and writer * Albert J. Hanson (1866–1914): landscape painter in both oil and

Nicholas Harding Nicholas Harding (1956 – 2 November 2022) was a British-born Australian artist, known for his paintings, in particular portraits. Early life Harding was born in London, England in 1956. In 1965 his family emigrated to Australia, settling i ...

(born 1956): artist who won the

in 2001 * Lily Nungarrayi Yirringali Jurrah Hargraves (born 1930): painter *

Pro Hart Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE (30 May 192828 March 2006), was an Australian artist, born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, who was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his works are widely admired for capturi ...

(1928–2006): father of the

Outback The Outback is a remote, vast, sparsely populated area of Australia. The Outback is more remote than the bush. While often envisaged as being arid, the Outback regions extend from the northern to southern Australian coastlines and encompass a n ...

painting movement *

Cecil Hartt Cecil Lawrence Hartt (15 July 1884 – ''c''. 17 May 1930) was an Australian cartoonist and caricaturist. As a wartime artist, he popularised the concept of the Australian digger as independent, easy-going and disrespectful of authority, ...

(1884–1930): cartoonist *

Edmund Arthur Harvey Edmund Arthur Harvey, also known as E.A. Harvey or Harvey (20 February 1907 – 23 May 1994) was an Australian artist. Known for his portraits and landscape art, he also taught painting, most notably at the National Art School in Sydney. In a ca ...

(1907–1994): British-born Australian artist *

Ponch Hawkes Ponch Hawkes (born 1946) is an Australian photographer whose work explores intergenerational relationships, queer identity and LGBTQI+ rights, the female body, masculinity, and women at work, capturing key moments in Australia's cultural and soci ...

(born 1946): photographer *

Elaine Haxton Elaine Alys Haxton, AM (26 September 1909 – 6 July 1999) was an Australian painter, printmaker, designer and commercial artist. Biography Haxton was born in the north Melbourne suburb of Newmarket. Her family moved to Sydney when she was a ...

(1909–1999): painter, printmaker, designer and commercial artist *

Louise Hearman Louise Hearman (born 1963) is an artist from Melbourne who has been painting and drawing from a very young age. At high school level she attended Tintern Church of England Girls Grammar School in Ringwood in East Victoria where she showed much a ...

(born 1963): figurative painter *

Ivor Hele Sir Ivor Henry Thomas Hele, CBE (13 June 1912 – 1 December 1993) was an Australian artist noted for portraiture. He was Australia's longest serving war artist and completed more commissioned works than any other in the history of Austra ...

(1912–1993): war artist for the

Australian War Memorial The Australian War Memorial is Australia's national memorial to the members of its armed forces and supporting organisations who have died or participated in wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia and some conflicts involving pe ...

, five times Archibald Prize winner * Catherine Jenna Hendry (CJ Hendry) (born 1988): hyper-realistic, large-scale renderings using a scribbling technique *

Euan Heng Euan Heng, (born 1945 in Oban, Argyllshire, Scotland) is an artist who is now living and working in Melbourne, Australia. Life and work Between 1960 and 1970 he was employed in various occupations, including four years as a merchant seaman ...

(born 1945): Scottish-born painter and printmaker *

Lucien Henry Lucien Félix Henry born in Sisteron (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) on May 22, 1850 and died in Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat (Haute-Vienne) on March 10, 1896, was a French painter, who was active in Sydney. A socialist, he was part of the Paris Commun ...

(1850–1896): French painter in Sydney *

Bill Henson Bill Henson (born 7 October 1955) is an Australian contemporary art photographer. Art Henson has exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Venice Biennale, the National Gall ...

(born 1955): contemporary photographic artist *

Petr Herel Petr Herel (19th May 1943 - 2nd April 2022) was born in Czechoslovakia. He studied at the Prague College of the Visual Arts between 1957 and 1961. Later he studied the Prague Academy of Applied Arts where he received a Master of Arts. In 1971 ...

(born 1943): Czechoslovakia-born printmaker, painter *

Sali Herman Sali Herman (12 February 1898 – 3 April 1993) was a Swiss-born Australian artist, one of Australia's Official War Artists for the Second World War. Life and career Herman arrived in Melbourne in 1937 and enlisted in the Australian Army in ...

(1898–1993): Swiss-born war artist *

Bernard Hesling Bernard Hesling (1905–1987) was a British-born muralist and painter who lived and worked in Australia and produced many vitreous enamel artworks and wrote humorous autobiographies. Early years Hesling was from a Yorkshire family. He was born ...

(1905–1987): British-born muralist and painter *

Joy Hester Joy St Clair Hester (21 August 1920 – 4 December 1960) was an Australian artist. She was a member of the Angry Penguins movement and the Heide Circle who played an integral role in the development of Australian Modernism. Hester is best known ...

(1920–1960):

modernist Modernism is both a philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new forms of art, philosophy, an ...

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Hans Heysen Sir Hans Heysen (8 October 18772 July 1968) was a German-born Australian artist. He became a household name for his watercolours of monumental Australian gum trees. He is one of Australia's best known landscape painters. Heysen also produced ...

(1877–1968): German painter of

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Nora Heysen Nora Heysen (11 January 1911 – 30 December 2003) was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize in 1938 for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist. Early years Heyse ...

(1911–2003): 1938 Archibald Prize winner and first women official war artist *

Dale Hickey Dale Hickey (born 1937) is an Australian artist. Born in Melbourne, Hickey studied art at Swinburne College of Technology and then held various teaching positions including Senior Lecturer in painting at Phillip Institute of Technology (now Roya ...

(born 1937): painter and teacher * J. J. Hilder (1881–1916): watercolourist from the

* Charles Hill (1824–1915): engraver, painter and arts educator * Robin Hill (born 1932): artist and writer *

Frank Hinder Francis Henry Critchley Hinder (26 June 1906 – 31 December 1992) was an Australian painter, sculptor and art teacher who is also known for his camouflage designs in World War II. Education Born on 26 June 1906 at Summer Hill, Sydney, Hinder ...

(1906–1992): painter, sculptor and art teacher *

Margel Hinder Margel Ina Harris Hinder (4 January 1906, Brooklyn, New York – 29 May 1995, Roseville, New South Wales) was an Australian-American modernism, modernist sculptor, noted for her Kinetic art, kinetic and public sculptural works. Her sculptures ar ...

(1906–1995): Australian-American modernist sculptor *

Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (11 July 1893, in Frankfurt-am-Main – 7 January 1965, in Allambie Heights, in Sydney) was a German-born Australian artist. His formative education was 1912–1914 at Debschitz art school in Munich. He studied at the ...

(1893–1965): German/Australian artist *

Noela Hjorth Noela Hjorth (5 December 1940 – 17 February 2016) was an Australian artist and builder of houses, known as ''living sculptures''. Her work reveals a fascination with the female form and its spiritual manifestations, exploring the mythology of ...

(1940–2016): artist and builder of houses, known as living sculptures *

Robert Hoddle Robert Hoddle (21 April 1794 – 24 October 1881) was a surveyor and artist. He is best known as the surveyor general of the Port Phillip District (later known as the Australian state of Victoria) from 1837 to 1853, especially for creation of ...

(1794–1881): surveyor and artist *

Christopher Hodges Christopher Hodges is an artist and director of Utopia Art Sydney a contemporary art gallery in Australia. Artistic career Hodges studied art at the Alexander Mackie CAE graduating with a Dip Art (Ed) and first began exhibiting his work in the l ...

: artist and art gallery director *

Frank Hodgkinson Frank Hodgkinson (23 April 1919—20 October 2001) was a noted Australian printmaker, painter and graphic artist. Life Hodgkinson was educated at Fort Street High School and after leaving began work as a commercial artist and newspaper illust ...

(1919–2001): war artist *

Rayner Hoff George Rayner Hoff (27 November 1894 – 19 November 1937) was a British-born sculptor who mainly worked in Australia. He fought in World War I and is chiefly known for his war memorial work, particularly the sculptures on the ANZAC War Memoria ...

(1894–1937):

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-born sculptor who lived and worked in Australia *

Robert Hollingworth Robert Hollingworth is an Australian artist and writer. Overview Robert Hollingworth is an Australian artist and writer with an abiding interest in Australian history, environment, ecology, the natural sciences and nature in general. He now w ...

(born 1947): painter, video artist, writer, novelist; winner of 1990

Cherry Hood Cherry Hood is an Australian artist, best known for her oversized paintings of children's faces. Biography Cherry Alexandra Hood was born in Sydney in 1950, and is the great granddaughter of Australian photographer, Sam Hood. She attained a ...

(born 1959):

, won the 2002 Archibald Prize *

Gordon Hookey Gordon Hookey (born 1961 in Cloncurry) is an Australian aboriginal artist from the Waanyi people. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1992) and lives in Brisbane, Australia. He is primarily known as a painter but his practice also involves sculptu ...

(born 1961): painter, sculptor * Laurence Hope (born 1927): artist * Livingston York Yourtee "Hop" Hopkins (1846–1927): American-born cartoonist * Chris Horder (born 1976): won the Young Emerging Artist Award in the 2011 Mosman Art Prize *

Marie Horseman Marie Compston "Mollie" Horseman (9 December 1911 – 7 May 1974), was an Australian comic book artist, book illustrator and fashion artist. Horseman is most notable for her work on the 1950s comic strips, "Pam" and "The Clothes Horse". Biogra ...

(1911–1974): cartoonist, illustrator, fashion designer * Henry Leonardus van den Houten (1801–1879): Dutch-Australian painter, lithographer and art teacher * Valma Howell (1896–1979): painter, actress * Laurence Hotham Howie (1876–1963): South Australian sculptor, painter, and art teacher *

John Howley John Howley (born 30 December 1931 died 25 May 2020) is an Australian painter whose core work is related to the Fantastic Art genre. Life Howley was born in Melbourne and studied at the National Gallery School of Art in Melbourne (1949� ...

(born 1931): painter *

Frank Hurley James Francis "Frank" Hurley (15 October 1885 – 16 January 1962) was an Australian photographer and adventurer. He participated in a number of expeditions to Antarctica and served as an official photographer with Australian forces durin ...

(1885–1962): photographer, filmmaker and adventurer *

Polly Hurry Polly Hurry (2 May, 1883, Kyneton - 5 August 1963, Frankston), was an Australian painter. She was a founding member of the Australian Tonalist movement and part of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. Early life Described in a 2009 review ...

(1883–1963): painter * Margot Hutcheson (born 1952): British-born painter Back to top

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Nelson Illingworth Nelson William Illingworth (August 1862 – 26 June 1926)''Daily Telegraph'', Sydney, 28 June 1926 was an English sculptor and colourful bohemian. Illingworth was born in Portsmouth, England England is a country that is part of the Un ...

(1862–1926): English-born sculptor *

Kylie InGold Kylie InGold (born September 1962) is an Australian artist, a painter of the fairy and fantasy genre. Her painting career began in the early 1980s and has endured as one of Australia's most popular contemporary fairy artists. She studied fashio ...

(born 1962): painter of the fairy and fantasy genre *

Robert Ingpen Robert Roger Ingpen Order of Australia, AM, Royal Society of Arts, FRSA (born 13 October 1936) is an Australians, Australian graphic designer, illustrator, and writer. For his "lasting contribution" as a children's illustrator he received the b ...

(born 1936):

graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...

, illustrator, and author *

Adelaide Ironside Adelaide Eliza Scott Ironside (17 November 1831 – 15 April 1867) was an Australian artist. Three of her paintings were donated to Australian national collections, but in 1888 they were in "a shed". They were then in Sydney University and "The ...

(1831–1867): painter *

Pamela Irving Pamela Irving (born 1960) is an Australian visual artist specialising in bronze, ceramic and mosaic sculptures as well as printmaking and copper etchings. In addition to her extensive art work, Irving has lectured in art and ceramics at Monash ...

(born 1960):

mosaicist A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...

and writer * Jean Isherwood (1911–2006): painter * Linde Ivimey (born 1965): sculptor Back to top

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Kenneth Jack Kenneth William David Jack AM MBE RWS, (5 October 1924 – 10 June 2006) was an Australian watercolour artist who specialised in painting the images of an almost forgotten outback life: old mine workings, ghost towns, decaying farm buildings. ...

(1924–2006): watercolour painter, and printmaker, member of RWS *

Robert Jacks Robert Jacks (8 March 1943, Melbourne—14 August 2014, Castlemaine) was an Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker. Born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied sculpture from 1958 to 1960 at the Prahran Technical College, Melbourne, and p ...

(1943–2014): painter, sculptor and printmaker *

James R. Jackson James Richard "Jim" Jackson (May 16, 1924 – March 20, 2011) was an American mathematician, well known for his contribution to queueing theory. Jackson was born in Denver and raised in Beverly Hills. He served in the United States Air Force duri ...

(1882–1975): artist, primarily of Sydney harbor * Roy Jackson (1944–2013): artist *

Lionel Jago Lionel Hornibrook Jago (1882–1953) was an Australian artist active between 1910 and 1950. Early life and education Jago was born in South Australia in 1882. He studied at Davis Studio, Melbourne and at Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney. He ...

(1882–1953): artist *

Ann James Ann Catherine Stewart James (born 6 October 1952) is an Australian illustrator of more than 60 children's books, some of which she also wrote. She was born in Melbourne, Victoria. James has been illustrating books since the 1980s and has becom ...

(born 1952): children's book illustrator, graphic designer * Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher James (1937–2011): ceramicist, painter and textile artist, Aboriginal artist *

Gil Jamieson Gil Jamieson (31 January 1934 – 14 June 1992) was an Australian painter. Jamieson was born in the central Queensland town of Monto in 1934 and died there in 1992. Career Jamieson liked to be thought of as a Romantic. He objected to the lab ...

(1934–1992): painter of

figurative art Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract a ...

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landscape art Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compos ...

works, and

portrait A portrait is a portrait painting, painting, portrait photography, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, Personality type ...

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Bob Jenyns Bob Jenyns (born Robert Jenyns, 1944, Victoria) is a prolific Australian artist whose practice, spanning over four decades, has produced countless sculptures, prints, drawings, and paintings. He has participated in many of Australia's most sig ...

(born 1944): humorous and figurative sculpture, painting, drawing and prints *

Natalie Jeremijenko Natalie Jeremijenko (born 1966) is an artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She is an active member of the net.art movement, and her work primarily explores th ...

(born 1966): installation artist *

Carol Jerrems Carol Jerrems (14 March 1949 – 21 February 1980) was an Australian photographer/filmmaker whose work emerged just as her medium was beginning to regain the acceptance as an art form that it had in the Pictorial era, and in which she newly sy ...

(1949–1980): photographer *

Clytie Jessop Clytie Jessop (born Clytie Erica Lloyd-Jones; 1929 – 9 April 2017) was a British-based Australian actress, gallerist, painter, screenwriter and film director, notable mainly for her association with cinematographer and film director Freddie Fra ...

(1929–2017): artist, actress, screenwriter and director *

Guo Jian Guo Jian (; born 26 January 1962) is a Chinese Australian artist. His work has been exhibited and collected in Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, US, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and China, including Musée de Picardie in France, ...

(born 1962): painter, sculptor, photographer *

Natasha Johns-Messenger Natasha Johns-Messenger (born 1970) is an Australian conceptual artist and filmmaker, who has lived and worked in New York and Melbourne. Johns-Messenger is best known for her large-scale site-determined installations that examine spatial perce ...

: installation artist, photographer * George Johnson (1926–2021): painter of

modernist art Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the trad ...

, especially

geometric abstraction Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was popu ...

* Roger Kirk Hayes Johnson (1922–1991): architect, planner, potter, painter, sculptor, writer and educator *

Anne Jolliffe Anne Comrie Jolliffe (17 October 1933 – 27 August 2021) was the first Australian woman animator. She was best known for her work on the film Yellow Submarine (film), ''Yellow Submarine'' (1967–68) and the 48th Academy Awards, 48th Academy Aw ...

(1933–2021): animator *

Eric Jolliffe Eric Ernest Jolliffe (31 January 190716 November 2001)Tony Stephens, "A talent drawn from the bush", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 27 November 2001, p. 44. was an Australian cartoonist and illustrator. Early life Born in Portsmouth, England, ...

(1907–2001): cartoonist and illustrator on outback themes * Henry Jones (1826–1911): photographer *

Joe Jonsson Nils Josef Jonsson (originally Jönsson) (13 December 1890 – 19 March 1963) was an Australian cartoonist born in Halmstad, Sweden. At age 18 he went to sea for nine years, painting in his spare time. In 1915 he "jumped ship" in New Zealand whe ...

(1890–1963): Swedish-born cartoonist *

Justus Jorgensen Justus Jorgensen (12 May 1893 – 15 May 1975) was an Australian artist and architect. He is best known for establishing the artist colony Montsalvat, located in Eltham. He was born in East Brighton, Melbourne. He was a student of Max Meld ...

(1893–1975): artist and architect *

Ellen Jose Ellen is a female given name, a diminutive of Elizabeth, Eleanor, Elena and Helen. Ellen was the 609th most popular name in the U.S. and the 17th in Sweden in 2004. People named Ellen include: *Ellen Adarna (born 1988), Filipino actress *Ellen A ...

(1951–2017): photographer, printmaker * Loui Jover (born 1967): painter, artist * Anne Judell (born 1942): artist, winner of the 2011

Dobell Prize The Dobell Drawing Prize is a biennial drawing prize and exhibition, held by the National Art School in association with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.The prize is an open call to all artists and aims to explore the enduring importance ...

Robert Juniper Robert Litchfield Juniper, Member of the Order of Australia, AM (7 January 192920 December 2012) was an Australian artist, art teacher, illustrator, painter, printmaker and sculptor. Early life Juniper was born in the wheat-belt town of Merredi ...

(1929–2012): illustrator, art teacher, sculptor and printmaker Back to top

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Louis Kahan Louis Kahan AO (25 May 190516 July 2002) was an Austrian-born Australian artist whose long career included fashion design, illustration for magazines and journals, painting, printmaking and drawing. He is represented in most major collections ...

(1905–2002): artist born in

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in 1962 * Kitty Kantilla (1928–2003): painter, printmaker, sculptor *

Shokufeh Kavani Shokufeh Kavani ( fa, شکوفه کاوانی; born 1970) is an Iranian-born Australian contemporary nurse, artist, painter, and translator. She is primarily known as a translator and as an abstract painter. She is fluent in Australian English ...

(born 1970): Iranian-born painter *

Barry Kay Barry Kay (1932 – 1985) was an Australian stage and costume designer of international renown. After having studied painting at the Académie Julian in Paris and theatre design in Melbourne, he settled in London in 1956. In the course of h ...

(1932–1985): stage and costume designer * Hanna Kay: Israeli-born painter *

Jennifer Keeler-Milne Jennifer Keeler-Milne (born 1961) is an Australian contemporary artist who is best known for her sumptuous landscape oil paintings and large-scale charcoal drawings. Keeler-Milne draws on traditional oil painting techniques to create striking co ...

(born 1961): painter, drawer * Anwen Keeling (born 1976): portrait painter * David Keeling (born 1951): artist *

John Kelly John or Jack Kelly may refer to: People Academics and scientists * John Kelly (engineer), Irish professor, former Registrar of University College Dublin *John Kelly (scholar) (1750–1809), at Douglas, Isle of Man *John Forrest Kelly (1859–1922) ...

(born 1965): artist *

Rik Kemp Richard "Rik" Kemp (born 9 January 1939) is an Australian former cartoonist. Cartooning and illustration Kemp began his passion for art at college in London. From the late 1950s he had several single frame cartoons published nationally as well ...

(born 1939) *

Roger Kemp Francis Roderick Kemp AO, OBE, (Eaglehawk, 3 July 1908 - Melbourne 14 September 1987), known as Roger, was one of Australia's foremost practitioners of transcendental abstraction. Kemp developed a system of symbols and motifs which were deployed ...

(1907–1987): artist, especially of transcendental abstraction *

Franz Kempf Franz Moishe Kempf (20 June 1926 – 8 February 2020) was an Australian artist who worked in Australia and Europe. He was a lecturer in printmaking at the University of Adelaide. Early life and education Kempf was born in Melbourne on 20 June ...

(born 1926) *

Tjungkara Ken Tjungkara Ken (born 1 October 1969) is a Pitjantjatjara artist from Amata, South Australia, in the APY lands. She began painting in 1997, when Minymaku Arts was opened by the women of Amaṯa. She started painting professionally in 2008. By that ...

(born 1969): painter *

Caroline Kennedy-McCracken Caroline Frances Kennedy-McCracken (born Caroline Frances Kennedy in 1967) is an Australian musician and visual artist. Kennedy-McCracken has been a singer-songwriter and guitarist in several bands, including The Plums (1992–1995), Deadstar ( ...

(born 1967): musician, painter, sculptor *

Rachel Khedoori Rachel Khedoori (born 1964 in Sydney, Australia) is a contemporary artist of Iraqi Jewish heritage based in Los Angeles and known primarily for her mixed use of sculpture, film and architecture. Biography Khedoori was born in Sydney and raise ...

(born 1964): painter, sculptor *

Toba Khedoori Toba Khedoori (born 1964 in Australia) is an artist of Iraqi heritage, known primarily for highly detailed mixed-media paintings executed on large sheets of wax-coated paper. Biography Khedoori was born in Sydney of Jewish-Iraqi parentage an ...

(born 1964): mixed media painter * Patrick Kilvington (1922–1990): artist of

musters Musters is a surname. People with the surname include: * George Chaworth Musters (1841–1879), British Royal Navy commander and traveller * Marcel Musters (born 1959), Dutch actor * Pauline Musters (1878–1895), the shortest woman ever recorded ...

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Grahame King Grahame Edwin King (23 February 1915 – 11 October 2008) was a master Australian printmaker, who has been called the "patron saint of contemporary Australian printmaking".Grishin, 41. He was responsible for the revival of print making in Austra ...

(1915–2008): master printmaker *

Inge King Ingeborg Viktoria "Inge" King (; 26 November 1915 – 23 April 2016) was a German-born Australian sculptor. She received many significant public commissions. Her work is held in public and private collections. Her best known work is ''Forward S ...

(1915–2016): German-born sculptor *

Leah King-Smith Leah King-Smith is a Bigambul descendant, visual artist and lecturer in the School of Creative Practice (Creative Industries) QUT, Brisbane, Australia. She is best known for her photo compositions. Her 1991 series ''Patterns of Connection'' is ...

(born 1956): photographer *

Anita Klein Anita Klein (born 14 Feb 1960 Sydney) is an Australian painter and printmaker. Biography Anita Klein studied at Chelsea School of Art and the Slade School of Art in London. From 2003 - 2006 she was president of the Royal Society of Painter Pri ...

(born 1960): painter, printmaker *

Robert Klippel Robert Klippel AO (19 June 192019 June 2001) was an Australian constructivist sculptor and teacher. He is often described in contemporary art literature as Australia's greatest sculptor. Throughout his career he produced some 1,300 pieces of ...

(1920–2001): sculptor *

Anastasia Klose Anastasia Klose (born 1978) is an Australian contemporary artist. Her work has received much attention in the art world due to the personal nature of her subject matter, often putting herself in humiliating situations. She is a graduate of both ...

(born 1978): performance artist, installation artist *

Michael Kmit Michael Kmit ( uk, Михайло Кміт) (25 July 1910 in Stryi, Lviv – 22 May 1981 in Sydney, Australia) was a Ukrainian painter who spent twenty-five years in Australia. He is notable for introducing a neo-Byzantine style of painting ...

(1910–1981): Ukrainian painter who spent twenty-five years in Australia and died in Sydney * Sue Kneebone: artist and arts educator *

Emily Kngwarreye Emily Kame Kngwarreye (or Emily Kam Ngwarray) (1910 – 3 September 1996) was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Utopia community in the Northern Territory. She is one of the most prominent and successful artists in the history of Aust ...

(1910–1996): Aboriginal artist from the

Utopia community Utopia is an Aboriginal Australian homeland area formed in November 1978 by the amalgamation of the former Utopia pastoral lease with a tract of unalienable land to its north. It covers an area of , transected by the Sandover River, and lies on ...

* William Dunn Knox (1820–1945): painter, member of the

Victorian Artists Society The Victorian Artists Society, which can trace its establishment to 1856 in Melbourne, promotes artistic education, art classes and gallery hire exhibition in Australia. It was formed in March 1888 when the Victorian Academy of Arts (previously Vi ...

* Lisette Kohlhagen (1890–1969): painter *

Theo Koning Theo Koning (born 1950 in the Netherlands) was a Western Australian painter, sculptor, printmaker and art teacher, who for a time exhibited with the Galerie Dusseldorf in Perth. Koning immigrated to Western Australia in 1953 at the age of thr ...

(born 1950): Dutch-born Western Australian painter, sculptor, printmaker and art teacher * Derek Kreckler (born 1952):

multi-media Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradition ...

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Vida Lahey Frances Vida Lahey MBE (1882—1968) was a prominent artist in Queensland, Australia. She exhibited widely from 1902 until 1965. Early life Frances Vida Lahey was born on 26 August 1882 at Pimpama, Queensland, the daughter of David Lahey and h ...

(1882–1968): painter *

Rosemary Laing Rosemary Laing (born 1959) is an Australian photographer. She originally trained as a painter before moving to the medium of photography. Laing has taught art at the University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts. With over 100 exhibitions ...

(born 1959): photographer * George Lambert (1873–1930): artist of

portrait painting Portrait Painting is a genre in painting, where the intent is to represent a specific human subject. The term 'portrait painting' can also describe the actual painted portrait. Portraitists may create their work by commission, for public and pr ...

s and war artist * Pat Larter (1936–1996): mail artist, photographer, performance artist, painter *

Richard Larter Richard Larter (19 May 1929 – 25 July 2014) was an Australian painter, often identified as one of Australia's few highly recognisable pop artists. Larter also frequently painted in a Pointillist style. He took advantage of unusual techniques w ...

(1929–2014): painter, often identified as one of Australia's few highly recognisable pop artists *

David Larwill David Larwill (1956–2011) was an Australian artist recognisable by his distinctive and exuberant style based on bold colour, stylised figures and simplified form. Although best known as a figurative expressionist painter, Larwill was also a ...

(1956–2011): artist *

Janet Laurence Janet Laurence (born 4 March 1947) is an Australian artist, based in Sydney, who works in photography, sculpture, video and installation art. Her work is an expression of her concern about environment and ethics, her "ecological quest" as she ...

(born 1947): mixed media artist, installation artist * Peter Laverty (1926–2013): painter, print maker, art educator and gallery director * George Lawrence (painter), George Lawrence (1901–1981): painter in the impressionist style * Donald Laycock (artist), Donald Laycock (born 1931): painter * Sam Leach (artist), Sam Leach (born 1973): figurative painter, winner of 2010

and

* Alun Leach-Jones (1937–2017): painter, sculptor, printmaker * Bill Leak (1956–2017): cartoonist and painter * Percy Leason (1889–1959): cartoonist, painter * Lindy Lee (born 1954): sculptor, painter * Derwent Lees (1884–1931): landscape painter * Laurence Le Guay (1916–1990): photographer * Fred Leist (1878–1945): muralist and war artist * Kerrie Lester (1953–2016): artist * Michael Leunig (born 1945): cartoonist, poet and cultural commentator * Margo Lewers (1908–1978): interdisciplinary abstract artist * John Lewin (1770–1819): English-born artist of natural history, active in Australia * Wilbraham Liardet, Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet (1799–1878): hotelier, water-colour artist and historian * William Light, Colonel William Light (1786–1839): British naval and army officer and a painter, the first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia * Peter Lik (born 1959): fine art photographer * Kevin Lincoln (born 1941): artist * Daryl Lindsay (1889–1976): sketcher, illustrator, and art critic * Joan Lindsay (1896–1984): author * Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961): artist specializing in

and engraving * Norman Lindsay (1879–1969): sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist and scale modeler * Percy Lindsay (1870–1952): landscape painter, illustrator and cartoonist * Ruby Lindsay (1885–1919): illustrator, painter * Anthony Lister (born 1980): artist specializing in street art, expressionism, and pop art * W. Lister Lister (1859–1943): painter, won the

seven times * Norman Lloyd (artist), Norman Lloyd (1895–1983): landscape painter * Tony Lloyd (Artist), Tony Lloyd (born 1970): figurative painter * Leonard Long (1911–2013): painter * Sydney Long (1871–1955): painter, etcher, and teacher * John Longstaff (1861–1941): painter, war artist and a five-time winner of the

* Will Longstaff (1879–1953): painter and war artist * Keith Looby (born 1940): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1984 * Loongkoonan (c. 1910–2018): painter, Aboriginal elder * Steve Lopes (born 1971): figurative painter * Josh Lord (artist), Josh Lord (born 1972): artist specializing in acrylic paint, acrylic house paint * Gretta Louw (born 1981): interdisciplinary artist working across digital media, installation, drawing, and textiles * Fiona Lowry (born 1974): painter * Joseph Lycett (c. 1774–1827): English-born portrait and miniature painter, active in Australia * Elwyn Lynn, Elwyn (Jack) Lynn (1917–1997): artist, author, art critic and curator Back to top

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* Andrew MacCormac (1826–1918): portrait painter * Stewart MacFarlane, Stewart Angus MacFarlane (born 1953): figurative painter * Norman Macgeorge (1872–1952): artist and art critic * William Priestly MacIntosh (1857–1930): sculptor * Bertram Mackennal, Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal (1863–1931): sculptor and medallist * Chips Mackinolty (born 1954): artist printmaking and journalist * Euan MacLeod (born 1956): New Zealand artist who won the

in 1999 * William Macleod (1850–1929): artist and a partner in The Bulletin (Australian periodical), The Bulletin * M. J. MacNally, Matthew James MacNally (1873–1943): watercolourist * Mary Macqueen (1912–1994): printmaker, mixed media artist * Bea Maddock (1934–2016): artist combining printing with encaustic painting and installation art * Guy Maestri (born 1974): painter, winner of 2009

* Ma Mahood (1901–1989): painter, ceramist, printmaker * Jeffrey Makin (born 1943): artist, art critic, and Director of Port Jackson Press Australia * David Malangi (1927–1999): bark painter, printmaker, carver, designer * Henri Mallard (1884–1967): photographer * Gillian Mann (1939–2007): printmaker * Diane Mantzaris (born 1962): digital artist, printmaker * Paul Margocsy (born 1945): watercolourist * Banduk Marika (1954–2021): indigenous Australian artist and printmaker * Wandjuk Marika (1927–1987): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist, actor, composer and Aboriginal title, land rights activist * Stella Marks (1887–1985): best known as a portrait miniaturist * Claude Marquet (1869–1920): political cartoonist * Conrad Martens (1801–1878): English-born landscape artist active in Australia * Monte Masi (born 1983): performance-based video artist * John Mather (artist), John Mather (1848–1916): Scottish-Australian plein-air painter and etcher * John Baxter Mather (1853–1940): Scottish-Australian journalist, newspaper proprietor, landscape painter and art critic * John Mawurndjul (born 1952): indigenous artist in a traditional painting technique ''rarrk'' * William James Maxwell (ca.1843–1903): Scottish-born sculptor * Ursula Mayer (born 1970): multimedia artist based in London * Daphne Mayo (1895–1982): sculptor * Kathleen McArthur (1915–2001): botanical illustrator, environmentalist, naturalist * Herbert McClintock (1906–1985):

artist * Francis McComas (painter), Francis McComas (1875–1938): Australian-born artist who spent most of his adult life in California * Georgiana McCrae (1804–1890): painter, diarist * Frederick McCubbin (1855–1917): painter of the

* Alan McLeod McCulloch (1907–1992): art historian and gallery director, cartoonist, and painter * Francine McDougall: filmmaker, photographer * Malcolm McGookin (born 1956): cartoonist, writer, painter, musician * Raymond McGrath (1903–1977): architect, illustrator, printmaker and interior designer * William Beckwith McInnes (1889–1939): portrait painter, winner of the Archibald Prize seven times * Arthur McIntyre (artist), Arthur McIntyre (1945–2003): artist and art critic * Alexander McKenzie (artist), Alexander McKenzie (born 1971): painter, a six times finalist of the

* Queenie McKenzie (1930–1998): painter * Tommy McRae (1835–1901): artist * Clement Meadmore (1929–2005): Australian-American sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures * Penny Meagher (1935–1995): painter * Lilian Marguerite Medland (1880–1955): illustrator, painter * Charles Meere (1890–1961): English-Australian artist * Dora Meeson (1869–1955): painter * Annemieke Mein (born 1944): Dutch-born textile artist * Max Meldrum (1875–1955): painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940 * Mortimer Menpes, Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855–1938): Australian-born artist, author, printmaker and illustrator * Mary Cockburn Mercer (1882–1963): painter * Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–1895): Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator, also known as Louisa Anne Twamley * Bertha Merfield (1869–1921): painter and muralist * Vladas Meskenas (1916–2020): Sydney painter, born in Lithuania * Bill Meyer (artist), Bill Meyer (born 1942): artist who uses photography, film and music in his work * Mez Breeze, mez (Mary-Anne Breeze): Australian-based Internet artist * Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902–1985): Polish-born photographer * Rod Milgate, Rodney Armour "Rod" Milgate (1934–2014): painter and playwright * David Miller (painter), David Miller (born c.1950): painter * Lewis Miller (Australian artist), Lewis Miller (born 1959): painter and visual artist, known for his portraits and figurative works, winner of 1998 Archibald Prize * Peter Milne (visual artist), Peter Milne (born 1960): photographer and visual artist, known for documenting the Melbourne punk and comedy scenes in the 1970s and 80s * Benjamin Edwin Minns (1863–1937): watercolourist * Hal Missingham, Harold "Hal" Missingham (1906–1994): Australian artist, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1945 to 1971, and president of the Australian Watercolour Institute from 1952 to 1955 * Jan Mitchell (1940–2008): painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker * Robert Boyed Mitchell (1919–2002): abstract expressionist artist * Joanne Mitchelson (born 1971): painter * Tracey Moffat (born 1960): artist using primarily photography and video * Ernest Moffitt, Ernest Edward Moffitt (1871–1899): artist * George Molnar (1910–1998): Hungarian-Australian cartoonist * Jon Molvig (1923–1970): expressionist artist * Reg Mombassa (born 1951): New Zealand-born artist and musician * Milton Moon (1926–2019): potter, teacher and author * Alan Moore (war artist), Alan Moore (1914–2015): war artist * David Moore (Australian photographer), David Moore (1927–2003): photographer and photojournalist. * May and Mina Moore (1881–1931, 1882–1957): photographers * Mirka Mora (1928–2018): French-born painter, sculptor, mosaic artist * Harriet Morgan (1830–1907): natural history illustrator * Sally Morgan (artist), Sally Morgan (born 1951): Australian Aborigines, Aboriginal author, scriptwriter and contemporary Indigenous Australian artist * George Pitt Morison (1861–1946): painter and engraver * Ethel Jackson Morris (1891–1985): illustrator * Christine Morrow (born 1971): British-born visual artist * Grant Mudford (born 1944): photographer * Sally M. Nangala Mulda (born 1957): artist * Patricia Mullins (born 1952): children's book illustrator * Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (c.1936–2002): contemporary artist * Arthur Murch (1902–1989): painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1949 * Les Murdoch (born 1957), pioneer of Aboriginal Op art Surrealism * Wendy Murray (artist) (born 1974): print maker, painter, arts educator * Vali Myers (1930–2003): artist who specialized in fine pen and ink drawings * Patricia Moran (1944–2017): painter * Bruce Munro (born 1959): dual nationality (Australian/Great Britain), primary medium light * Tanya Myshkin (born 1961): printmaker

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* Bardayal 'Lofty' Nadjamerrek (1926–2009): painter * Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri (1926–1998): painter * Albert Namatjira (1902–1959): Indigenous Australian artist * Rosella Namok (born 1979): Indigenous Australian artist * Eubena Nampitjin (1921–2013): painter, teacher *Narputta Nangala (1933–2010) * Frank A. Nankivell, Frank Arthur Nankivell (1869–1959): artist and political cartoonist * Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri (c. 1955–2008): painter * Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri (c. 1954–2011): painter * Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (born c. 1948): painter * Tjunkiya Napaltjarri (c. 1927–2009): painter * Wintjiya Napaltjarri (born ca 1923 to 1934): painter * Makinti Napanangka (c. 1930–2011): indigenous Australian artist * Dorothy Napangardi (early 1950s–2013): painter * Lily Kelly Napangardi (born c. 1948): painter * Yalti Napangati (born c. 1970): painter * Simeon Nelson (born 1964): sculptor and transdisciplinary artist * Girolamo Nerli (1860–1926) * Norie Neumark: American-born sound artist * Albert Ernest Newbury (1891–1941): landscape and portrait painter * Ann Newmarch (born 1945): painter, printmaker, sculptor * Helmut Newton (1920–2004): German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women * June Newton (1923–2021): photographer, actress * Paul Newton (artist), Paul Newton (born 1961): portrait artist who has twice won the

*Mavis Ngallametta (1944–2019) * Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884–1961): painter * Peter Nicholson (cartoonist), Peter Nicholson (born 1946): political cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor * Deborah Niland (born 1950) * Kilmeny Niland (1950–2009) * Sandro Nocentini (born 1966): painter * Sidney Nolan (1917–1992): painter and

* Bess Norriss, Elizabeth May Norriss, later Bess Norriss Tait (1878–1939): artist * James Northfield (1887–1973): graphic artist * Rosaleen Norton (1917–1979): painter, occultist * Naata Nungurrayi (born 1932): artist * Charles Nuttall (1872–1934): artist noted for his illustrations * Lena Nyadbi (born c. 1936): painter, installation artist Back to top

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* Carla O'Brien: installation artist * Kathleen O'Brien (1914–1991): comic artist, illustrator, fashion artist * Kathleen O'Connor (painter), Kathleen O'Connor (1876–1968): New Zealand-born painter * Gabby O'Connor: New Zealand-based installation artist (born 1974) * Peter O'Doherty (born 1958): musician and artist specializing in still life and suburbia * Edward Officer (1871–1921): painter, Australian Art Association inaugural president * John Ogburn, John Armstrong Ogburn (1925–2010): painter. * Pixie O'Harris (1903–1991): Welsh-born illustrator, cartoonist, painter, author * Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge, Dorothea "Dora" Adela Ohlfsen-Bagge (1869–1948): pianist, painter, sculptor, spy and particularly a medallist * Bronwyn Oliver (1959–2006): sculptor * Margaret Olley (1923–2011): painter specializing in still life * Bernard Ollis (born 1951): contemporary painter * John Olsen (Australian artist), John Olsen (1928–2023): landscape painter who won the

in 2005 * Lin Onus (1948–1996): Scottish people, Scottish–Koori Aboriginal artist * Rosemary Opala (1923–2008): illustrator, writer, nurse * Desiderius Orban (1884–1986): Hungarian-Australian painter, printmaker and teacher * Christopher Orchard (born 1950): artist and arts educator * Mandy Ord (born 1974): comic artist * Raquel Ormella (born 1969): multimedia artist * George Cross Thomas Orr (1882–1933): watercolourist * Jill Orr (born 1952): performance artist, photographer, installation artist * Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski (1922–1994): Polish-Australian artist best known for his ground-breaking work in chromasonics, laser kinetics and 'sound and image' productions * Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888–1960): children's book illustrator * Robert Owen (artist), Robert Owen (born 1937): artist and curator Back to top

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* Josonia Palaitis: artist * Wendy Paramor (1938–1975): artist * Trent Parke (born 1971): photographer * Roy Parkinson (1901–1945): watercolour artist * Lenton Parr (1924–2003): sculptor and teacher * Mike Parr (born 1945): performance artist and printmaker * Allyson Parsons (born 1965): Australian landscape artist * Peter Parsons (ceramic artist) (1951–1993): ceramic artist * John Passmore (artist), John Passmore (1904–1984): abstract expressionist painter * Klytie Pate (1912–2010): studio potter * John Ford Paterson (1851–1912): Scottish-born Australian artist * Ambrose McCarthy Patterson (1877–1966): painter and printmaker * Frances Wildt Pavlu (died 2016): art jeweller * John Peart (artist), John Peart (1945–2013) * Tom Peerless (1858–1896): artist * John Perceval (1923–2000): artist of drawings, paintings, and ceramics * Stieg Persson (born 1959): contemporary painter * Bruce Petty (1929–2023): political satirist and cartoonist * Gloria Petyarre (born 1946): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist * Jeanna Petyarre (born 1950): painter * Kathleen Petyarre (1940–2018): painter * Nancy Petyarre (1938–2009): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist * Debra Phillips (born 1958): photographer, sculptor * Patricia Piccinini (born 1965): mixed-media artist * Shane Pickett (1957–2010): Nyoongar artist * William Pidgeon, William Edwin Pidgeon (1909–1981): painter who won the Archibald Prize three times * Julianne Pierce: new media artist, curator, art critic * Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (1935–2013), ceramist * W. C. Piguenit (1836–1914): landscape painter * Anne Pincus (born 1961): painter, sculptor * Carl Plate (1909–1977): painter, collage artist, sculptor, printmaker * Evert Ploeg (born 1963): portrait painter * Terrance Plowright (born 1949): contemporary and figurative sculptor * Axel Poignant (1906–1986): photographer * Leon Pole (1871–1951): artist associated with the

* Rodney Pople (born 1952): artist * Pietro Porcelli (1872–1943): Italian-born sculptor * Port Jackson Painter (active 1788–1790s): plant and animal watercolour artist(s) (identity unknown) * Arthur Ted Powell (born 1947): landscape painter and printmaker * Harold Septimus Power (1877–1951): artist * John Joseph Wardell Power, Dr John Joseph Wardell Power (1881–1943): Modernist artist * Cedar Prest (born 1940): stained glass artist * Margaret Preston (1875–1963): modernist painter and printmaker * Reg Preston (1917–2000): potter * Thea Proctor (1879–1966): portrait painter and printmaker * Geoffrey Proud (born 1946): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1990 * John Skinner Prout (1805–1876): English-born painter of lithographs, watercolours and oils * Oswald Pryor (1881–1971): cartoonist * Clifton Pugh (1924–1990): painter of landscapes and portraiture * Shirley Purdie (born 1948): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist * Peter Purves Smith (1912–1949): painter * Minnie Pwerle (1910–2006): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist Back to top

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* Ben Quilty (born 1973): portrait painter and war artist, winner of 2011

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artist working in Australia * Iso Rae, Isobel "Iso" Rae (1860–1940): impressionist painter * John Rae (administrator), John Rae (1813–1900): administrator, painter and author * Hugh Ramsay (1877–1906): artist * Richard John Randall (1869–1906): artist * David Rankin (artist), David Rankin (born 1946): New York-based painter * Stanislav Rapotec, Stanislav Rapotec AM (1913–1997): artist * Henry Rayner (1902–1957): Australian artist known for his drypoint etchings * Norma Redpath, Norma Redpath OBE (1928–2013): painter and sculptor * Richard Read Sr. (ca. 1765 – ca. 1829): British-born artist who was sent to Australia as a convict. * Lloyd Rees (1895–1998): landscape painter * Alison Rehfisch, Alison Baily Rehfisch (1900–1974): painter * Virgil Reilly (1892–1974): cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator * Susan Respinger (born 1982): Perth based artist * Gladys Reynell (1881–1956): one of South Australia's earliest potters * Jon Rhodes (born 1947): photographer * Geoffrey Ricardo (born 1964): artist,

and sculptor * Charles Douglas Richardson (1853–1932): Victorian sculptor and painter * William Ricketts (1898–1993): potter and sculptor of the arts and crafts movement * John Rigby (artist), John Rigby (1922–2012): painter of tropical and bush landscapes, genre works and portraits * Paul Rigby, Paul Crispin Rigby AM (1924–2006): cartoonist * Michael Riley (artist), Michael Riley (1960–2004): photographer, documentary filmmaker * Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (1936–2002): painter * Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884–1961): conservative post-impressionist painter * Douglas Roberts (1919–1976): painter and art critic * Ian Roberts (painter), Ian Roberts (born 1952): bird and native vegetation painter * Tom Roberts (1856–1931): artist and a member of the

* Lynne Roberts-Goodwin (born 1954): photographer, video and installation artist * Freda Robertshaw, Freda Rhoda Robertshaw (1916–1997): artist * Ron Robertson-Swann, Ronald Charles Robertson-Swann OAM (born 1941): sculptor * Donna Marie Robinson: digital artist * Julia Robinson (artist), Julia Robinson (born 1981): sculptor * William Robinson (artist), William Robinson (born 1936): painter and lithographer * Charles Rodius (1802–1860): German-born artist, printmaker and architect * Florence Aline Rodway (1881–1971): artist best known for her portraits * Lisa Roet (born 1967): artist * Andrew Rogers (artist), Andrew Rogers (born 1947): sculptor and land artist * Robert Rooney (1937–2017): artist and art critic * Herbert Rose (artist), Herbert Rose (1890–1937): painter and etcher * Daisy Rossi, Daisy Mary Rossi (1879–1974): artist, interior designer and writer * Dick Roughsey (1920–1985): painter * Ellis Rowan (1847–1922): naturalist and illustrator * Julie Rrap (born 1950): contemporary artist * Dattilo Rubbo (1870–1955): Italian-born artist and art teacher * Craig Ruddy (born 1968): painter of portraits, nudes and self studies, winner of 2004

* Jim Russell (cartoonist), James Newton Russell AM MBE (1909–2001): cartoonist * John Russell (Australian painter), John Peter Russell (1858–1930): impressionist painter * Robert Russell (architect), Robert Russell (1808–1900): architect and surveyor Back to top

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* Jenny Sages (born 1933): Chinese-born painter, freelance writer, and illustrator * Loudon Sainthill (1918–1969): artist and stage and costume designer * William Salmon (painter), William Arthur Salmon (1928–2018): painter * Tom Samek (1950–2021): Czech-born muralist * Gareth Sansom (born 1939): artist, painter, printmaker and collagist * Hugh Sawrey (1919–1999): landscape artist and Stockman (Australia), stockman * Jan Hendrik Scheltema (1861–1941): Dutch-born landscape and livestock painter. * Jörg Schmeisser (1942–2012): painter,

and art teacher * Joyce Scott (born 1942): drawing, oil painting and ceramics * Montague Scott (1835–1909): artist * Ken Searle (born 1951): artist * Udo Sellbach (1927–2006): artist,

and art teacher * Gert Sellheim (1901–1970): German-Australian artist who won the

in 1939 * Jan Senbergs (born as Jānis Šēnbergs in Latvia, 1939): artist and printmaker * Dora Serle (1875–1968): painter * Peter Serwan (born 1962): artist and teacher * Rebecca Shanahan: artist * Martin Sharp (1942–2013): artist, underground cartoonist, songwriter and filmmaker * Peter Sharp (artist), Peter Sharp (born 1964): specialises in drawing * Raelene Sharp (born 1957): portrait painter

Packing Room Winner 2012 * Wendy Sharpe (born 1960): portraitist and war artist * Gary Shead (born 1942): artist and filmmaker who won the

in 1992–1993 * Ben Shearer (born 1941): artist who specialises in watercolour painting of the

* Shen Jiawei (born 1948): Chinese Australian painter and winner of the 2006 Sir John Sulman Prize * Leonard and Kathleen Shillam, Kathleen Shillam AM (1916–2002): English-born sculptor * Leonard and Kathleen Shillam, Leonard George Shillam AM (1915–2005): sculptor * Heather Shimmen (born 1957): artist,

* John Shirlow (1869–1936): artist * Athol Shmith (1914–1990): studio portrait and fashion photographer and photography educator * Ivy Shore (1915–1999): painter, winner of Portia Geach Memorial Award * Andrew Sibley (1933–2015): English-born artist * Allan F. Sierp (1905–1982): artist and author * Wolfgang Sievers (1913–2007): photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography * Achille Simonetti (1838–1900): Italian-born sculptor * Norah Simpson (1895–1974): modernist painter * Darren Siwes (born 1968): photographer, painter * Rein Slagmolen (1916–1999): Dutch-Australian artist and sculptor * Matthew Sleeth (visual artist), Matthew Sleeth (born 1972:) visual artist and filmmaker * Jeffrey Smart (1921–2013): painter, known for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes * Sally Smart (born 1960): known for her large-scale assemblage installations that address gender and identity politics * Tony Smibert (born 1949): painter who specialises in watercolour painting * Bernard William Smith, Bernard Smith (1916–2011): art historian, art critic and academic * Eric Smith (artist), Eric Smith (1919–2017): portraitist * Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984): artist and pioneer of Modernist art, modernist painting * Joshua Smith (artist), Joshua Smith (1905–1995): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1944 * Mervyn Ashmore Smith, Mervyn Ashmore Smith OAM (1904–1994): artist * Lance Solomon (1913–1989): painter, noted for his landscapes * David Henry Souter (1862–1935): artist and journalist * Clara Southern (1861–1940): painter * Percy Spence (1868–1933): artist * John Spooner (born 1946): journalist and illustrator * Ethel Spowers (1890–1947): artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art * William Stanford (sculptor), William Stanford (1839–1880): sculptor * Stelarc (born 1946): performance artist * Ronald Steuart (1898–1988): watercolourist * Paddy Japaljarri Stewart (1935–2013): indigenous artist from Mungapunju * Constance Stokes (1906–1991): figurative painter * Loribelle Spirovski (born 1990): Filipino-born visual artist * Kunmanara Stewart (c.1935-2012): indigenous Pitjantjatjara artist * Margaret Stones, Margaret Stones AM MBE (1920–2018): botanical illustrator * Tim Storrier (born 1949): Australian landscape painter, winner of 2012

* David Edgar Strachan (1919–1970): painter, printmaker and teacher * George Strafford (c.1820–1896): artist and engraver * Arthur Streeton (1867–1943): Landscape art, landscape painter * Mark Strizic (1928–2012): Croatian-Australian photographer and artist * William Strutt (artist), William Strutt (1825–1915): English-born artist of figurative and history paintings * Douglas Stubbs (1927–2008): artist * Reginald Sturgess (1892–1932): artist * Charles Summers (1825–1878): English-born sculptor, creator of the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills * Jane Sutherland (1853–1928): landscape painter * Ruth Sutherland (1884–1948): Australian painter and art critic * Chern’ee Sutton (born 1996): Australian painter, known for her colourful 3D painting style. * Roger Swainston (born 1960): painter, naturalist and zoologist specialising in works of the underwater world * Ricky Swallow (born 1974): sculptor * Jo Sweatman, Estelle Mary (Jo) Sweatman (1872–1956): painter * Eveline Syme (1888–1961): artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art Back to top

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* Laurens Tan (born 1950): multidisciplinary artist * Ron Tandberg, Ronald Peter Tandberg (1943–2018): illustrator and political cartoonist * Les Tanner (1927–2001): cartoonist and journalist * Howard Taylor (painter), Howard Taylor AM (1918–2001): painter, potter, graphic artist and teacher of art * Violet Teague (1872–1951): artist, noted for her painting and printmaking * Henri Tebbitt (1854–1927): English-Australian painter * Kathy Temin (born 1968): artist who uses synthetic fur to create sculptural objects and installations * Arlene Textaqueen (born 1975): works on paper with felt-tip marker pens * Eric Thake (1904–1982): surrealist artist * Harold Thomas (activist), Harold Thomas (born 1947): artist and activist * Margaret Thomas (1842–1929): English-born Australian travel writer, poet and artist * Rover Thomas (c.1926–1998): one of two Aboriginal Australians to exhibit in the Venice Biennale in 1990, alongside Trevor Nickolls *Stu Thomas (born 1967): Visual artist, musician. * Christian Thompson (artist), Christian Thompson (born 1978): artist * Nigel Thomson (1945–1999): artist of satirical paintings of society *Lesbia Thorpe (1919–2009); printmaker * Mark Threadgold (born 1977): painter * Imants Tillers (born 1950): visual art artist, curator and writer * Freddie Timms (1946–2017): painter * Richard Tipping, Richard Kelly Tipping (born 1949): poet and artist working between image and language * Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa (1925–1989): painter * Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932–2002): painter, Aboriginal artist * Whiskey Tjukangku (born c. 1939): artist * Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula (c.1938/1942–2001) * Aida Tomescu (born 1955): contemporary artist * Mary Tonkin (born 1973): artist, winner of the 2002

* Jessie Traill, Jessie Constance Alicia Traill (1881–1967): print maker * Vernon Treweeke (1939–2015): psychedelic artist * Percy Trezise, Percy Trezise AM (1923–2005): pilot, painter, explorer and writer * J. W. Tristram (1870–1938): artist * Zoja Trofimiuk (born 1952): printmaker and sculptor, especially cast glass * Marie Tuck (1866–1947): artist and art educator * Ruth Tuck, Ruth Tuck OAM (1914–2008): modernist painter * Albert Tucker (artist), Albert Tucker (1914–1999):

painter * Tudor St George Tucker (1862–1906): painter * Tony Tuckson (1921–1973): war-time pilot turned abstract expressionist painter * Peter Tully (1947–1992): jeweller, designer and artistic director * James Alfred Turner (1850–1908): painter * Isabel May Tweddle (1875–1945): painter Back to top

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* Hossein Valamanesh (born 1949: Iranian-born contemporary artist * May Vale (1862–1945): painter * H. van Raalte, Henri Benedictus van Raalte (1881–1929): known as H. van Raalte, English-born artist and printmaker * Danila Vassilieff (1897–1958): Russian-born painter and sculptor * John Vickery (artist), John Vickery (1906–1983): artist * Julie Vieusseux, Julie Elizabeth Agnes Vieusseux (1820–1878): painter and educator * Alfred Vincent, Alfred James Vincent (1874–1915): cartoonist * Eugene von Guerard (1811–1901): Austrian-born painter of landscapes active in Australia * Savanhdary Vongpoothorn (born 1971): Laotian-born Australian painter Back to top

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* Robert Wade (watercolour artist), Robert Wade (born 1930): watercolour artist * David Wadelton (born 1955): artist * Thomas Wainewright (1794–1847): English author, serial killer, forger and painter transported to Van Dieman's Land * Roland Wakelin (1887–1971): New Zealand-born painter and teacher * Megan Walch (born 1967): painter *Anna Frances Walker (1830–1913) watercolorist, botanical illustrator * John Walker (painter), John Walker (born 1939): English-born painter and Old master print, printmaker producing native Oceanic art * Rose A. Walker (1879–1942): painter and miniaturist * Stephen Walker (sculptor), Stephen Walker (1927–2014): sculptor * Robin Wallace-Crabbe (born 1938): curator, literary reviewer, cartoonist, illustrator, book designer, publisher and a commenter on art * Napier Waller, Mervyn Napier Waller CMG OBE (1893–1972): muralist, mosaicist and painter in stained glass and other media * Wes Walters (1928–2014): Realism (visual arts), realist

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ist * Ania Walwicz (1951–2020): poet, prose writer, and visual artist * Guy Warren (artist), Guy Warren (born 1921): painter who won the

in 1985 * Sera Waters (born 1979): textile artist, arts writer and arts educator * Thomas Watling (1762–1814): painter and illustrator * Jenny Watson (artist), Jennifer Watson (born 1951): artist known for her paintings that combine text and images * Judy Watson (born 1959): artist * Judy Watson Napangardi, Judy Napangardi Watson (1921–2004): painter * Yannima Tommy Watson, Tommy Watson (c.1935–2017): painter * James Laurence Watts (1849–1925): sculptor * Betty Temple Watts (1901–1992): scientific illustrator * Peter Wegner (Australian artist), Peter Wegner (born 1953): New Zealand born figurative painter, sculptor, and draughtsman * Barbara Weir (born 1945): painter * William Westall (artist), William Westall (1781–1850): English-born landscape and botanical artist * Bradd Westmoreland (born 1975): painter * Bryan Westwood (1930–2000): portrait artist who won the Archibald Prize twice * Charles Wheeler (painter), Charles Wheeler (1881–1977): painter who won the Archibald Prize in 1933 * George Whinnen (1891–1950): painter * Kaylene Whiskey: artist * Anthony White (artist), Anthony White (born 1976): painter * Unk White, Cecil John White (1900–1986): New Zealand born cartoonist, known under the pen name Unk White * James White (sculptor), James White (1861–1918): sculptor, winner of the

in 1902 * Susan Dorothea White (born 1941): painter, sculptor, printmaker, author * Brett Whiteley (1939–1992): prolific, multi-award-winning painter * James V Wigley (1918–1999): painter of Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal camp scenes and desert landscapes * Leslie Wilkie (1878–1935): artist, curator, and member of

* Fred Williams (artist), Fred Williams (1927–1982): painter and

* Jan Williamson: award-winning

* Marcus Wills (born 1972): painter, winner of 2006

* Dora Wilson (1883–1946): British-born artist, best known for etchings and street scenes * Eric Wilson (artist), Eric Wilson (1911–1946): painter * Shaun Wilson (born 1972): artist, film maker, academic, teacher, and curator * William Hardy Wilson (1881–1955): architect, artist and author * Henry Winkles (1800–1860) * Walter Withers (1854–1914): landscape artist and a member of the

of impressionists * Noel Herbert Wood, Noel Wood (1912–2001): painter * Rex Wood (1906–1970): artist who lived for many years in Portugal * Robert Woodward (architect), Robert Raymond (Bob) Woodward AM (1923–2010): architect and fountain designer * John Christie Wright (1889–1917): sculptor Back to top

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* Paji Honeychild Yankarr (c.1912–2004): painter * Yirawala (c.1897–1976): painter * John Zerunge Young (born 1956): Hong Kong-born Australian artist * Blamire Young (1862–1935): artist * William Young (artist), William Young (1875–1944): artist * Gulumbu Yunupingu (c.1943–2012): Australian Aboriginal artist and women's leader from the Yolngu people Back to top

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* Anne Zahalka (born 1957): photographer * Michael Zavros (born 1974): artist * Victor Zelman (1877–1960): painter and etcher * Hongbin Zhao (born 1952): Shanghai born artist * Teisutis Zikaras, Teisutis 'Joe' Zikaras (1922–1991): Lithuanian-born sculptor * Salvatore Zofrea (born 1946): Italian-born painter of literary, historical and religious sources * Reinis Zusters (1919–1999) artist and architect Back to top

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