This is a list of women artists who were born in Australia or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

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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 *

Prue Acton Prue Acton, OBE (born 26 April 1943) is an Australian fashion designer, often referred to as "Australia's golden girl of fashion" during the 1960s. Early life Prudence Leigh Acton was born in Benalla, Victoria and educated at Firbank Anglican ...

(born 1943), fashion designer * Yilpi Adamson (born 1954), textile artist, painter *

Hoda Afshar Hoda Afshar (born 1983) is an Iranian documentary photographer who is based in Melbourne. She is known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Island detent ...

(born 1983), Iranian born, photographer * Alison Alder (born 1958), screenprinter * Joyce Allan (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 Schoo ...

(born 1951), painter, filmmaker, writer * Mary Cecil Allen (1893–1962), painter, writer * Lily Allport (1860–1949), oil painter, watercolourist *

Edith Susan Gerard Anderson Edith Susan Gerard Anderson (16 February 1880 – 31 March 1961), who became Edith Susan Boyd when she married, was an Australian artist, Playwdramatist, and painter. She was also known for being a model for the artist E. Phillips Fox, Emanuel ...

(1880–1961), painter, artist's model, writer *

Ethel Anderson Ethel Campbell Louise Anderson (née Mason; 16 March 1883 – 4 August 1958) was an early twentieth century Australian poet, essayist, novelist and painter. She considered herself to be mainly a poet, but is now best appreciated for her witty an ...

(1883–1958), painter and writer *

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), painter *

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), painter, print maker * Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (1940–2013), painter *

Kerry Argent Kerry Argent (born 1960) is an Australian illustrator of children's books. Life Argent was born in Angaston in South Australia. She came to notice when she was part of the new wave of children's books published when Bob Hawke was the Prime Min ...

(born 1960), illustrator * Elizabeth Armstrong (1859–1930), painter *

Alison Marjorie Ashby Alison Marjorie Ashby (7 February 1901 – 12 August 1987) was an Australian botanical artist and plant collector. Early life Ashby was born in Adelaide, South Australia as a youngest daughter of four children, of a property developer and ...

(1901–1987), botanical artist * Olive Ashworth (1915–2000), artist, textile designer, photographer * Cristina Asquith Baker (1868–1960), painter, print maker * Mireille Astore (born 1961), Lebanese-born photographer, sculptor, performance artist, writer *

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 wer ...

(born 1930), painter * Australian poster collectives, 1960s, 70s and 80s, women were leaders in the poster collective movement *

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 ...

(born 1969), photographer

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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), British-born author and illustrator * Maringka Baker (born c. 1952), painter * Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 1954), Swiss-born painter *

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 ...

(1875–1955), 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 *

Jenny Bannister Jenny Bannister is an Australian fashion designer, based in Melbourne. Early life Bannister was born in 1954 in Mildura, Victoria to parents Owen and Peg. As a teenager she moved to Melbourne with her sister Wendy. Bannister studied Fashion Desi ...

(born 1954), fashion designer * Shirley Barber (born 1935), author and illustrator * Irene Barberis (born 1953), English-born painter, installation artist, drawer * Agnes Barker (1907–2008), potter, craftworker *

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 (1876–1948), painter, printmaker * Gwen Barringer (1882–1960), watercolourist * Ethel Barringer (1883–1925), etcher *

Nadia Bartel Nadia Bartel (née Coppolino, born 1985) is an Australian model and clothes designer. She is the former wife of retired AFL footballer Jimmy Bartel. Bartel developed a clothing brand with her sister and another business partner. Inspired by min ...

(born 1985), fashion designer *

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 psy ...

(born 1972), painter *

Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville (1861–1930), was an Australian sculptor, water-colourist, and educator. She is regarded as Victoria's first professional woman sculptor. Biography Baskerville was born on 14 September 1861 in Melbourne, Vic ...

(1861–1930), sculptor, painter *

Zara Bate Dame Zara Kate Bate (; previously Fell and Holt; 10 March 190914 June 1989) was an Australian fashion entrepreneur. She was best known as the wife of Harold Holt, who was prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance in 1967. ...

(1909–1989), fashion designer *

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 * Bianca Beetson, sculptor, painter, installation artist, photographer, ceramist *

Dianne Beevers Dianne Beevers (born 18 December 1946) is an Australian sculptor, artist, jeweller and former lecturer at Box Hill Institute and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT. Early life Dianne Beevers was born in Taree, New South Wales. ...

(born 1946), painter, printmaker, jeweller * Eugenie Keefer Bell (born 1951), jewellery designer, maker *

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 *

Charmaine Bennell Charmaine Bennell is a Noongar author and illustrator from Western Australia. Her published books are written in the Noongar language, the language of Indigenous Australians in the South West of Western Australia. She is the daughter of Glen and P ...

(fl 2000s), illustrator * Jane Bennett (born 1960), painter * Portia Mary Bennett (1898–1989), painter * Eva Benson (1875–1949), sculptor *

Danelle Bergstrom Danelle Bergstrom (born 1957) is an Australian visual artist known for landscapes and portraits of significant Australians and International figures. Biography Bergstrom was born in Sydney. She attended Hunters Hill High School and studied a ...

(born 1957), painter *

Martha Berkeley Martha Maria Snell Berkeley (18 August 1813 – 7 July 1899) was an Australian artist. Born in Keynsham, England on 18 August 1813, she married Captain Charles Berkeley before migrating to Australia in 1836 with him and her sister, Theresa W ...

(1813–1899), painter * Lauren Berkowitz (born 1965), painter * Dorothy Berry (born 1942), pastel artist *

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 ...

(born 1929), comic artist, illustrator *

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), Hong Kong born, painter *

Annette Bezor Annette Bezor (5 April 1950 – 9 January 2020), born Annette Bateman, was an Australian painter and feminist, who lived and worked in Adelaide, South Australia. She was known for appropriating classical and pop culture images of women and usin ...

(1950–2020), painter *

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), painter * Karna Maria Birmingham (1900–1987), painter, 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 *

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 * Susannah Blaxill (fl 2000s), botanical artist *

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), painter * Yvonne Boag (born 1954), painter * Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative (1987–), founded by ten Aboriginal artists, six of whom are women *

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 * Marion Borgelt (born 1954), painter, installation artist, mixed media artist *

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), painter, art critic * Paula Bossio (fl 2000), illustrator * G. W. Bot (born 1954), printmaker, sculptor, painter, graphic artist * Penny Bovell (born 1956), painter, art historian *

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 *

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 * Edith Susan Boyd (1880–1961), painter and dramatist *

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 *

Tega Brain Tega Brain is an Australian-born digital artist and environmental engineer who is also an assistant professor of Integrated Digital Media at New York University (NYU). Brain is known for her eccentric and often purposefully dysfunctional informa ...

(fl 2012), digital artist * Joan Brassil (1919–2005), installation artist *

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 * Dorothy Mary Braund (1926–2013), painter *

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 * Lauren Brincat (born 1980), performance, installation artist *

(fl 1970s), fashion designer *

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), painter, fabric and wallpaper designer * Anmanari Brown, painter * Nyuju Stumpy Brown (1924–2011), indigenous painter * Janet Burchill (born 1955), contemporary artist, multiple disciplines *

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 * Norma Bull (1906–1980), painter, printmaker, etcher *

Frances Mary Burke Frances Mary Burke (10 January 1904 – 14 October 1994) was an Australian artist. She holds a significant place in the development of Australian design and evolution of printed textile design in Australia. She is recognised not only as a tex ...

(1904–1994), textile designer * Jane Burton (born 1966), photographer * Jessamine Buxton (1895–1966), painter and sculptor

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Barbara Campbell Barbara Campbell (born 1961) is an Australian performance and art installation, installation artist. Early life and education Campbell was born in Beaudesert, Queensland in 1961. She studied film under Alan Cholodenko, Rex Butler and Keith Bro ...

(born 1961), performance and installation 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 *

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 * Frances Cannon (born 1992), painter, drawer * María Fernanda Cardoso (born 1963) installation artist *

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 * Milyika Carroll (born 1958), aboriginal artist *

Karen Casey Karen Lynn Casey (born April 24, 1947) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Colchester North in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly, first as a Progressive Conservative (2006 to 2011), and then as member of the Lib ...

(1856–2021), interdisciplinary Palawa artist *

Maie Casey, Baroness Casey Ethel Marian Sumner "Maie" Casey, Baroness Casey, AC, FRSA (née Ryan; 13 March 1892 – 20 January 1983) was an Australian pioneer aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist. Lord Casey was her husband. Robert Menzies famous ...

(1892–1983), painter, illustrator *

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), Austrian-born painter * Alex Cearns, photographer *

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 * Alice Chapman (1860–1929), painter * Dora Chapman (1911–1995), painter, silk-screen printer, potter and art teacher * Susien Chong (fl 2000s), fashion designer * Connie Christie (1908–1989), children's writer/illustrator, photographer and commercial artist * Julia Church (born 1959), painter, printmaker, graphic designer *

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), painter and arts administrator *

Margaret Cilento Phyllis Margaret Cilento (23 December 1923 – 21 November 2006) was an Australian painter and printmaker. Biography Cilento was born in Sydney, Australia on 23 December 1923. She studied at East Sydney Technical College. In 1947, Cilento went ...

(1923–2006), painter, printmaker * Bree Kristel Clarke, photographer *

Maree Clarke Maree Clarke is a Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta, BoonWurrung/Wemba Wemba woman living in Melbourne, known for her work as a curator and artist. Clarke is a multidisciplinary artist renowned for her work in reviving South-eastern Aboriginal Australian ...

(fl 1990s), aboriginal artist * Sarah-Jane Clarke (fl 1999), fashion designer *

Lorna Jane Clarkson Lorna Jane Clarkson (née Smith, born 24 November 1964) is an Australian fashion designer, entrepreneur and author. She is the creator of the Lorna Jane brand of activewear for women, and owner of a chain of retail outlets that market the cloth ...

(born 1964), fashion designer *

Thelma Clune Thelma Cecily Clune (11 March 1900 – 6 September 1992) was an Australian sculptor, painter, patron of the arts and gallery owner. Early life Thelma Cecily Smith was born in Kings Cross in 1900 and she later moved with her family to Yarrama ...

(1900–1992), sculptor, 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 * Elaine Coghlan (1897–1989), painter, print maker * Kay Cohen (born 1952), fashion designer *

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 * Bindi Cole (born 1975), photographer, video artist, installation artist *

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, stained glass artist *

Sarah Contos Sarah Contos is an Australian artist known for her collages and installations. She has been a finalist in a number of art prizes, and was the inaugural recipient of the $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Educati ...

, artist, installation artist * Sylvia Convey (born 1948), Latvian-born painter and print maker * Justine Cooper (born 1968), animator, video artist, photographer *

Jenny Coopes Jenny Coopes (born 1945, New South Wales, Australia), also known as Jennifer Coopes, is an Australian political cartoonist, illustrator and painter. She contributes as a cartoonist for Australian law journal the Justinian. Education and career ...

(born 1945), cartoonist *

Megan Cope Megan Cope (born 1982) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Quandamooka people of Stradbroke Island/Minjerribah. She is known for her sculptural installations, video art and paintings, in which she explores themes such as identity and ...

(born 1982), aboriginal artist, sculptor, video artist * Yvette Coppersmith (born 1980) painter * Edith Corbet (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 * 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 *

Grace Cossington Smith Grace Cossington Smith (20 April 189220 December 1984) was an Visual arts of Australia, Australian artist and pioneer of Modernist art, modernist painting in Australia and was instrumental in introducing Post-Impressionism to her home country. ...

(1892–1984), painter, illustrator * Sybil Craig (1901–1989), painter *

Keri Craig-Lee Keri Craig-Lee (born 4 March 1958) is an Australian, multi-award-winning fashion designer and retailer. She was the first inductee into the National Retail Association (formerly the Retailers Association of Queensland – RAQ) Hall of Fame in 1 ...

(born 1958), fashion designer *

Brenda L Croft Brenda L Croft (born 1964) is an Aboriginal Australian artist, curator, writer, and educator working across contemporary Indigenous and mainstream arts and cultural sectors. Croft was a founding member of the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperat ...

(born 1964), artist, curator, writer, educator *

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), modernist painter * Grace Crowley (1890–1979), painter * Cecily Crozier (1911–2006), artist, poet, literary editor *

Philippa Cullen Philippa Ann Cullen (24 March 1950 – 3 July 1975) was an Australian dancer, choreographer, teacher and performance artist who was notable for her innovative dance performances incorporating the use of the theremin and the development of movemen ...

(1950–1975), performance 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), painter *

Nici Cumpston Nici Cumpston, (born 1963) is an Australian photographer, painter, curator, writer, and educator. Early life and education Cumpston's family background is Barkindji (an Aboriginal people of New South Wales), Afghan, Irish and English. Born ...

(born 1963), painter, photographer * Virginia Cuppaidge (born 1943), contemporary abstract expressionist painter *

Dagmar Evelyn Cyrulla Dagmar Evelyn Cyrulla is an Australian contemporary artist and Archibald finalist . In 2022 she was named one of Australia's 100 hottest collectable artists. Her work is about relationships, especially those from a woman’s perspective. In 2017, ...

(fl 1988), painter

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* 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 * Beatrice Darbyshire (1901–1988), artist, printmaker * Vicki Darken (1923–2014), landscape painter *

Liz Davenport Elizabeth Anne Davenport (born 12 April 1945) is an Australian fashion designer and businesswoman. Davenport is a managing director of Liz Davenport Fashion Pty Ltd, and long-term campaigner for conservation of Australian old-growth forest. S ...

(born 1945), fashion designer *

Malpiya Davey Malpiya Davey, also known as Irpintiri Davey, is an Aboriginal Australian artist from Pukatja, South Australia. She is best known for her ceramic artworks, but she also does painting, printmaking and weaving. Davey works for Ernabella Arts, t ...

(fl 2000s), aboriginal ceramist *

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 * Olive Blanche Davies (1884–1976/7), botanical illustrator * Pulpurru Davies (born 1940s), aboriginal artist * Debra Dawes (born 1955), painter *

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 * eX De Medici (born 1959), visual artist *

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 * Rachel Dean (fl 2010), fashion designer * Una Deerbon (1882–1972), potter *

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 * Maggie Diaz (1925–2016), photographer *

Karla Dickens Karla Dickens (born 2 December 1967) is an Aboriginal Australian installation artist of the Wiradjuri people, based in Lismore, New South Wales. Her works are in major public collections in Australia. Early life and education Dickens was bor ...

(born 1967), installation artist *

Dorothy Djukulul Dorothy Djukulul (born 1942) is a traditional Australian Aboriginal artist who lives in Ramingining in Central Arnhem Land. She speaks Ganalbingu and is a part of the Gurrumba Gurrumba clan, who identify as being a part of the Yirrija moiety. ...

(born 1942), painter and installation artist * Rosemary Dobson (1920–2012), illustrator *

Shay Docking Shay Docking (1928–1998) was an Australian artist who specialised in landscape drawing. Early life Docking was born in Warrnambool Victoria in 1928, and was the youngest of seven children. Her father was a clergyman and her mother a musicia ...

(1928–1998), landscape drawing *

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 *

Mel Douglas Mel Douglas (born 1978) is an Australian glass artist living and working in her studio located in the Australian capital of Canberra. Biography Douglas received her BA (Visual), Glass Workshop, from the Australian National University in 2000. ...

(born 1978), glass artist *

Margaret Dredge Margaret Anne Dredge (27 January 1928 – 3 September 2001) was an Australian painter and printmaker, active from the mid-1950s until 1997, and teacher of art. Early life Dredge was born in Murrumbeena in 1928, daughter of a war veteran, the a ...

(1928–2001), painter, print maker *

Pippin Drysdale Pippin Drysdale (born 18 May 1943) is an Australian ceramic artist and art teacher. She is regarded as the foremost interpreter of the Australian landscape in the field of ceramics. Her works are known for their intensity of colour and linear ...

(born 1943), ceramist *

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), painter, interior designer *

Lesley Dumbrell Lesley Dumbrell, born on 14 October 1941 in Melbourne, is an Australian artist known for her precise abstract geometric paintings, and was a pioneer of the Australian Women's Art Movement of the 1970s. She became known as 'one of the leading art ...

(born 1941), abstract painter *

Jan Dunn Jan Dunn (born 15 May 1963 in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England) is a British filmmaker, who made her feature length directorial debut in 2005 with the film '' Gypo'', starring Paul McGann and Pauline McLynn, which won a British Independent Film Aw ...

(born 1940), ceramicist, potter, teacher *

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), painter, writer *

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 * Mikala Dwyer (born 1959), sculptor * Anne Dybka (1922–2007), English-born Australian glass engraver *

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

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Helen Eager Helen Eager (born 27 September 1952, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian artist with an exhibition history of over 40 years. Her work 'Tango' was selected for the Inaugural Circular Quay Foyer Wall Commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art A ...

(born 1952), painter, printmaker *

Leona Edmiston Leona Edmiston is an Australian fashion designer based in Sydney. She studied fashion design at East Sydney Technical College and began her first label, called "Morrissey Edmiston", with fellow Australian designer Peter Morrissey in 1983.http:/ ...

(fl 2001), fashion designer * Margery Edwards (1933–1989), mixed media artist, painter * Pip Edwards (born 1980), fashion designer *

Mary Edwell-Burke Mary Edwell-Burke (1894–1988), was an Australian painter and carver. Biography Edwell-Burke was born on 19 June 1894 in Sydney. She was the half-sister of Bernice E. Edwell. She studied at the East Sydney Technical College. In the 1920s ...

(1894–1988), painter * Bernice E. Edwell (1880–1962), painter *

Sharyn Egan Sharyn Egan (born 1957) is a Noongar, Nyoongar artist known for her work in painting, sculpture, weaving and . Based in Fremantle, Western Australia, Egan's works are held in the collections of the National Museum of Australia and the Berndt Mus ...

(born 1957), painter, sculptor, weaver * Frances Dolina Ellis (1900–1971), artist, printmaker, teacher *

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 * Patricia Englund (1922–2004), painter and potter *

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 ...

(born 1955), painter * Jessie Lavington Evans (1860–1943), painter * Joyce Evans (1929–2019), photographer * Megan Evans (fl 2000s), interdisciplinary artist * Mary Alice Evatt (1898–1973), painter, arts patron * Lina Eve (born 1946), painter, photographer, filmmaker, singer * Joyce Vera Mary Ewart (1916–1964), painter, graphic artist, teacher

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* Cherine Fahd (born 1974), photography, video performance * Mary Featherston (born 1943) interior designer, furniture designer, children's play and learning designer * Anne Ferran (born 1949), photographer * Susan Fereday (1810–1878), botanical artist * Susan Fereday (born 1959), photographer, installation artist * Tania Ferrier (born 1958), painter, installation artist, feminist fashion * Claire Field (fl 2010s), visual artist, curator * Janet Fieldhouse (born 1971), ceramic artist * Mary Finnin (1906–1992), painter and poet * Flamingo Park Frock Salon (1973–1992), Jenny Kee, Linda Jackson, fashion designers *

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), wildlife painter * Rosie Nangala Fleming (born 1928), painter * Emily Floyd (born 1972), public artist, sculptor, printmaker *

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), painter, printmaker, photographer, sculptor, installation artist * Sue Ford (1943–2009), photographer * Dorothea Francis (1903–1976), painter and illustrator * Camilla Franks (born 1976), fashion designer * Virginia Fraser (1947–2021), filmmaker, writer, curator, advocate for women artists * Zoe Freney, painter *

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 *

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), South African-born painter *

Mari Funaki Mari Funaki (1950 – 13 May 2010) was a leading contemporary jeweller, designer, metal-smith and sculptor. She was active from 1990 to 2010. Initially a jeweller, she moved towards "purely sculptural forms" from the late 1990s. Biography Funa ...

(1950–2010), Japanese-born contemporary jeweller, metal-smith, sculptor

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Sally Gabori Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori (1924 – 11 February 2015) was an Aboriginal Australian artist who at age 81 began painting in an abstract-like style she developed to represent her Country (identity)#Indigenous Australians, Country, on ...

/ Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda (1924–2015) artist *

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'' ...

(living), performance artist, musician * Silvana Gardner (born 1942), 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), New Zealand-born sculptor *

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 * Portia Geach (1873–1959), portrait painter, feminist *

Anne Geddes Anne Elizabeth Geddes (born 1956) is an Australian-born, New York City-based portrait photographer known primarily for her elaborately-staged photographs of infants. Geddes's books have been published in 83 countries. According to Amazon.com, ...

(born 1956), photographer * Mary Gedye (1834–1876), painter * Karen Gee (born 1973), fashion designer * Diena Georgetti (born 1966), contemporary painter *

Kate Geraghty Kate Geraghty (born 1972) is an Australian war photographer, and photojournalist for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', and ''The Age'' and five time Walkley winner. Career Geraghty started photographing professionally at Albury-Wodonga's ''The Bor ...

(born 1972), photographer * Lisa Gervasoni (born 1969), photographer, strategic planner *

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), children's book illustrator, cartoonist, author * Topsy Gibson Napaltjarri (born c.1950), indigenous artist * Enid Gilchrist (c.1917–2007), fashion designer *

Simryn Gill Simryn Gill (born 1959) is a Singapore-born artist who specializes in sculpture, photography, drawing, writing and publishing. Throughout her career, Gill has presented her art at several significant events, including Germany's Documenta art show a ...

(born 1959) sculpture, photography, drawing, writing, publishing * Valerie Glover (fl 2002), collage artist using acrylics and mixed media *

Anna Glynn Anna Glynn is an Australian visual artist whose diverse work spans the mediums of painting, drawing, installation, moving image, sound and sculpture. Her works have been shown in multiple exhibitions and are represented in the collections of nume ...

(born 1958), contemporary visual artist * Mira Gojak (born 1963), sculptor *

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 *

Lisa Gorman Lisa Gorman is an Australian fashion designer. She established the women’s fashion label Gorman, developed the brand for 22 years, retiring as its creative director in 2021. Early life Eldest of four daughters, Gorman grew up at the coastal ...

(fl 1999), fashion designer * Agatha Gothe-Snape (born 1980), artist (various media) *

Elizabeth Gower Elizabeth Gower (born 1952) is an Australian abstract artist who lives and works in Melbourne. She is best known for her work in paper and mixed-media monochrome and coloured collages, drawn from her sustained practice of collecting urban detritu ...

(born 1952), abstract artist *

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. Work ...

(1955–2017), Warlpiri artist * Jacqui Grantford (born 1967), painter, illustrator *

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), visual artist * Elizabeth Gray (1837–1903), Irish-born painter, etcher * Virginia Grayson (born 1967), visual artist, winner of the Dobell Drawing Prize *

Juli Grbac Juli Grbac (born 1978) is an Australian fashion designer who was the first winner of ''Project Runway Australia''. Hailing from Brisbane, Grbac developed a love of fashion at a young age and was taught to sew by her mother, who also worked as ...

(born 1978), fashion designer * 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 who explores spiritual themes * Rona Green (born 1972), printmaker, painter, drawer, sculptor * Nicki Greenberg (born 1974), comic artist, illustrator *

Melanie Greensmith Melanie Greensmith (18 july 1964) is a fashion designer and property investor from Australia. She established the fashion label Wheels & Dollbaby in 1987 and is still going strong. Early life Melanie Greensmith grew up in London, England. He ...

(born 1964), fashion designer * Ina Gregory (1874–1964), painter *

Marion Mahony Griffin Marion Mahony Griffin (; February 14, 1871 – August 10, 1961) was an American architect and artist. She was one of the first licensed female architects in the world, and is considered an original member of the Prairie School. Her work in ...

(1871–1961) artist, architect *

Rhiana Griffith Rhiana Jade Griffith (born 1985) is an Australian former actress and artist. Life and career Griffith was born in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. She began modeling as a child, doing runway work and catalogue ads, and progr ...

(born 1989), actress and painter * May Grigg (1885–1969), painter * Ann Grocott (born 1938), writer and painter *

Joan Grounds Joan Grounds (born 1939) is an American-born artist. She has been exhibiting in Australia and internationally from 1967. Her solo and collaborative art work is held in the National Gallery of Australia (ceramics), the National Gallery of Victoria ...

(born 1939), ceramics, sculpture, sound art, film, performance art *

Nornie Gude Eleanor Constance "Nornie" Gude (Dec 8 1915 – Jan 24 2002) was an Australian artist. Early life Gude was born in 1915 in Ballarat, Victoria (Australia), Victoria to Stella Rehfisch and Walter Gude, musician and violin teacher, and conductor ...

(1915–2002), painter *

Henrietta Maria Gulliver Henrietta Maria Gulliver (29 October 1866 – 15 July 1945) was an Australian artist who specialized in landscape and floral still-life paintings. She was also a florist, horticulturalist and landscape designer. Life and Family Henrietta grew ...

(1886–1945), painter *

Malaluba Gumana Malaluba Gumana (born 1953) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from northeast Arnhem Land, who has gained prominence through her work in painting and the production of larrakitj, the memorial poles traditionally used by Yolngu people in a mortuary ...

(born 1953), aboriginal painter * Norah Gurdon (1882–1974), painter *

Margaret Gurney Margaret Gurney (October 28, 1908 – March 19, 2002) was an American mathematician, statistician, and computer programmer. Originally trained in the mathematical study of partial differential equations at Swarthmore College, Brown University, an ...

(born 1943), painter, graphic artist

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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 * Marie Hagerty (born 1964), artist, painter and teacher * Jenny Hale (born 1959), children's book illustrator, author * Fiona Margaret Hall (born 1953), photographer, sculptor * Deborah Halpern (born 1967), sculptor, mosaic artist, ceramist *

Tina Haim-Wentscher Tina Haim-Wentscher also: ''Tina Haim-Wentcher'' (17 December 1887 – 21 April 1974) was a German-Australian sculptor. Life Tina Haim-Wentscher was born in 1887 in Constantinople, the daughter of Serbian merchant David Leon Haim and his Itali ...

(1887–1974), German-Australian sculptor * Alice Hambidge (1869–1947), painter * Michelle Hamer (born 1975), textile artist * Misses Jane and Mary Hampson (Jane 1873–1950, Mary 1868–1944), quilt makers * Lyn Hancock (born 1938), photographer, writer * Marjorie Hann (1916–2011), commercial artist and cartoonist *

Tsering Hannaford Tsering Hannaford (born 19 March 1987) is a South Australian artist. In 2012 Tsering and her father Robert Hannaford were the "first father and daughter to show concurrently in ''Salon des Refusés'', an exhibition of Archibald entries", ...

(born 1987), painter *

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), painter, printmaker, writer *

Florence May Harding Florence May Harding (1908 – 19 August 1971), known as May Harding, was a teacher, naturalist, botanist, and artist (photographer, printmaker, draftsperson and cartoonist/illustrator) at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Family life Born at the m ...

(1908–1971), print maker, illustrator * Lily Nungarrayi Yirringali Jurrah Hargraves (born 1930), painter * Melinda Harper (born 1965), abstract artist * Katherine Hattam (born 1950), painter * Ponch Hawkes (born 1946), photographer *

Maude Haydon Maude Mary Haydon (6 November 1886 – 9 January 1978) was an Australian pastoral and landscape artist. Early life Maude Mary Haydon was born at ''Bloomfield'' near Murrurundi, New South Wales on 6 November 1886. She was raised a middle child ...

(1886–1978), pastoral and landscape artist *

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, print maker, commercial artist * Claire Healy (born 1971), installation artist in collaboration with Sean Cordeiro *

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), painter * Belynda Henry, landscape artist * Deirdre Henty-Creer (1918–2012), 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), painter, poet *

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), painter *

Jacqueline Hick Jacqueline Hick ('Jackie; 1919–2004) was an Australian painter whose work is held in the permanent collections of multiple museums in Australia. She is known for her work depicting human figures and the Australian landscape. She is the subjec ...

(1919–2004), painter *

Alannah Hill Alannah Louise Hill (born 26 March 1962) is an Australian fashion designer who has had notable local and international success. Hill began her fashion career at Indigo Boutique in Chapel Street, South Yarra in 1980. In 1997, in partnership with F ...

(born 1962), fashion designer *

Elvie Hill Elvie Hill (1917 – 31 July 2018) was an Australian fashion designer. Career Elvie Hill established an eponymous label in the 1940s in Melbourne and became well known for her elegant and feminine designs. She dressed some of Australia's best ...

(1917–2018), fashion designer *

Kit Hiller Kit (Christine) Hiller is a Tasmanian artist, now working principally in the mediums of linocut print and oil painting. She is a three-time winner of the Portia Geach Memorial Award, a portraiture prize for Australian women artists, and has been ...

(born 1948), linocut printer, oil painter * Alice Hinton-Bateup (born 1950), artist, printmaker *

Rhyl Hinwood Rhyl Kingston Hinwood (born 1940) is a sculptor in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. She designed and produced over seven hundred commissioned public artworks. In 2006 she became a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to the arts as a sc ...

(born 1940), sculptor *

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), painter, sculptor *

Lisa Ho Lisa Ho (born 1960) is an Australian fashion designer born in Albury, on the New South Wales and Victorian border. Early life Ho began sewing at age 4 inspired by her grandmother of African descent, a tailor, whom Ho says she 'probably drove ...

(born 1960), fashion designer *

Naomi Hobson Naomi Hobson (born 1979) is an Aboriginal Australian artist of southern Kaantju and Umpila heritage from Lockhart River, Cape York Peninsula, Queensland. She works in many media, including painting, photography and ceramics. She started exhib ...

(born 1979), painter *

Edith Lilla Holmes Edith Lilla Holmes (9 March 189326 August 1973) was an Australian artist active in Tasmania. Early life Holmes was born on 9 March 1893 in Hamilton, Tasmania, Hamilton, Tasmania, Australia, the third of five children. Her father, William Nassau ...

(1893–1973), painter * Elizabeth Honey (born 1947), illustrator * Paji Honeychild Yankarr (c.1912–2004), aboriginal artist * Greer Honeywill (born 1945), conceptual artist *

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 1950), painter *

Judy Horacek Judy Horacek (born 12 November 1961) is an Australian cartoonist, artist, writer and children's book creator. She is best known for her award winning children's picture book ''Where is the Green Sheep?'' with Mem Fox, and her weekly cartoons ...

(born 1961), cartoonist *

Margaret Horder Margaret Horder (12 December 1903 – 26 September 1978) was an Australian artist and children's book illustrator. She is best known for illustrating books by Joan Phipson, Patricia Wrightson and Nan Chauncy. Career Horder was born in Burwo ...

(1903–1978), artist, children's book illustrator *

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 * Valma Howell (1896–1979), painter, actress *

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

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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 *

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), ceramist, sculptor, printmaker * Jean Isherwood (1911–2006), painter * Linde Ivimey (born 1965), sculptor

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* Ethel Jackson Morris (1891–1995), illustrator * Linda Jackson (born 1950), fashion designer *

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 *

Beril Jents Beril Jents (1918 – 8 June 2013) was an Australian fashion designer. She is recognized as "Australia’s first queen of haute couture" and specialized in evening and bridal wear, although the term "haute couture" is not strictly correct i ...

(1918–2013), fashion designer *

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 *

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 ...

(born 1970), installation artist, photographer * Helen Johnson (born 1979), painter, academic *

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 * Peggy Napangardi Jones (1951–2014), painter *

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 * Narelle Jubelin (born 1960), sculptor, printmaker, multimedia installation artist * Anne Judell (born 1942), drawer *

Mabel Juli __NOTOC__ Mabel Juli (born 1931) is a contemporary artist from the East Kimberley in Western Australia. Early life Juli was born in 1931 or 1932 at Five Mile, near Moola Boola Station. Her traditional name is Wiringoon and her traditional co ...

, (born c. 1933), painter *

Kate Just Kate Just (born 1974) is an American-born Australian feminist artist. Just is best known for her inventive and political use of knitting, both in sculptural and pictorial form. In addition to her solo practice, Just often works socially and colla ...

, (born 1974), US-born, sculptor, textile artist

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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 * Hanna Kay (living), Israeli-born painter *

Jenny Kee Jenny Margaret Kee, (born 24 January 1947) is an Australian fashion designer. Early life Kee was born on 24 January 1947 in Bondi, New South Wales to a Chinese father and a sixth-generation Australian mother of Italian-English descent. Kee's ...

(born 1947), fashion designer *

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 * Josepha Petrick Kemarre (born 1940s or 1950s), indigenous artist and painter *

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 *

Lucy Napaljarri Kennedy Lucy Napaljarri Kennedy (born c. 1926) is a Walpiri language, Walpiri and Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian, Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region. One of the first Indigenous women artis ...

(born 1926), indigenous artist and painter *

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 * Ethel A. King (1879–1939), scientific illustrator *

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 *

Linda Klarfeld Linda Klarfeld (born 19 July 1976) is an Australian sculptor whose bronze and granite works of art focus on the human figure. Her work ranges from small miniature portrait busts to three meter high, larger than life size pieces. She has sold ...

(born 1976), sculptor * Anita Klein (born 1960), painter, printmaker *

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 * Sue Kneebone (living), ceramicist, mixed media, photomontage *

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), artist, batiks, painter * Lisette Kohlhagen (1890–1969), painter *

Yvonne Koolmatrie Yvonne Koolmatrie (born 1944) is an Australian artist and weaver of the Ngarrindjeri people, working in South Australia. Early life Koolmatrie was born in Wudinna, South Australia, Wudinna, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Her father was a Ko ...

(born 1944), weaver * Eveline Kotai (born 1950), collage artist * Angkuna Kulyuru (born 1943), aboriginal batik artist and print maker

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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 (born 1959), photographer *

Claire Lambe Claire Lambe (born 16 May 1990 in Dublin) is an Irish rower, who began rowing in 2005. In August 2015 she was a member of the lightweight women's double scull which qualified Lambe and her rowing partner Sinead Jennings for the Rio Olympics. T ...

(born 1962), sculptor * Pat Larter (1936–1996), mail artist, photographer, performance artist, painter * Janet Laurence (born 1947), mixed media artist, installation artist * Simone LeAmon (born 1971), designer, artist, curator *

Helen Lempriere Helen Dora Lempriere (12 December 1907 – 5 November 1991) was an Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker. Biography Born in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern on 12 December 1907, she was the only child of Charles Algernon Lempriere (brother ...

(1907–1991), painter *

Alison Lester Alison Jean Lester (born 17 November 1952) is an Australian author and illustrator who has published over 25 children's picture books and two young adult novels; ''The Quickstand Pony'' and ''The Snow Pony''. In 2005 Lester won the Children's ...

(born 1952), illustrator *

Sandra Leveson Sandra Leveson (born 1944), also known as Sandra Leveson-Meares, is an Australian painter, printmaker, and teacher. Training From 1959, aged fourteen, to 1963, Leveson studied design at Caulfield Institute of Technology where she and sculptor K ...

(born 1944), painter, print maker *

Mary Leunig Mary Leunig (born 1950) is an Australian visual artist who has had work featured in such publications as ''The Age'', ''Meanjin'', ''Nation Review'', ''HEAT (magazine), Heat Magazine'', ''AWU Magazine'', ''Time (magazine), Time'', ''Penthouse (m ...

(born 1950), cartoonist * Madeline Lewellin (1854–1944), painter, plant collector *

Margo Lewers Margo Lewers (19081978) was an Australian interdisciplinary abstract artist who worked across the media of painting, sculpture, tapestry, ceramics and the domestic arts. She was renowned for a number of major public commissions and for her lan ...

(1908–1978), interdisciplinary abstract artist *

Bettina Liano Bettina Liano (born 1966) is an Italian-Australian fashion designer, creator and former owner of the "Bettina Liano" women's clothing and jeans label. Career Liano's career in fashion started by chance in the early 1980s when Melbourne retaile ...

(born 1966), fashion designer * Kay Lindjuwanga (born 1957), bark painter *

Joan Lindsay Joan à Beckett Weigall, Lady Lindsay (16 November 189623 December 1984) was an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and visual artist. Trained in her youth as a painter, she published her first literary work in 1936 at age forty under a ...

(1896–1984), writer and visual artist *

Ruby Lindsay Ruby Lindsay (20 March 1885 – 12 March 1919) was an Australian illustrator and painter, sister of Norman Lindsay and Percy Lindsay. Biography Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria, the seventh child and second daughter of Robert and Jane ...

(1885–1919), illustrator, painter * Mary Elizabeth Livingston (1857–1913), painter * Pamela Lofts (1949–2012), children's book illustrator, artist * Loongkoonan (c. 1910–2018), painter, Aboriginal elder * Gretta Louw (born 1981), multimedia and digital artist * Mildred Lovett (1880–1955), china painter * Fiona Lowry (born 1974), painter *

Valerie Lynch Napaltjarri Valerie Lynch Napaltjarri (born 13 September 1970) is an Indigenous Australian artist from Papunya, Northern Territory, Papunya in Australia's Northern Territory. She is a painter and printmaker whose work has been collected by the National Galle ...

(born 1970), painter, print maker

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Gail Mabo Gail Mabo (born 1965) is an Australian visual artist who has had her work exhibited across Australia. She is the daughter of land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo and educator and activist Bonita Mabo . She was formerly a dancer and choreographer ...

(born 1965), visual artist *

Elisabeth MacIntyre Elisabeth MacIntyre (born Elisabeth Innes MacIntyre, also spelled Elizabeth MacIntyre; 1916–2004) was an Australian writer and illustrator. She mainly produced children's picture books and cartoon strips, but also created cartoon strips for a ...

(1916–2004), illustrator *

Constance Jenkins Macky Constance Jenkins Macky (née Constance Lillian Jenkins; 1883–1961) was an Australian-born American artist and teacher. She was known for her portraits, landscape paintings, and still life paintings. Biography Constance Lillian Jenkins was b ...

(1883–1961), Australian-American painter * Shirley Macnamara (born 1949), textile sculptor, painter *

Mary Macqueen Mary McCartney Macqueen (29 January 1912 – 15 September 1994) was an Australian artist who was known for her drawing, printmaking and mixed media works on paper. Her artistic style was expressive, gestural and experimental. Life, training ...

(1912–1994), printmaker, drawing, mixed media artist *

Rosemary Madigan Rosemary Wynnis Madigan (5 December 1926 – 12 February 2019) was an Australian sculptor, stonecarver and woodcarver who focused on the human figure. Born in Glenelg to the geologist Cecil Madigan, she decided on a career as a sculptor at the ...

(1926–2019) sculptor, stonecarver, woodcarver *

Ruth Maddison Ruth Maddison (born 18 November 1945) is an Australian photographer. She started photography in the 1970s and continues to make contributions to the Australian visual arts community. Biography Maddison is an Australian photographer who now res ...

(born 1945) photographer *

Bea Maddock Beatrice Louise "Bea" Maddock (13 September 1934 – 9 April 2016) was an Australian artist. Biography Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Bea Maddock studied art education at the University of Tasmania, Hobart and taught secondary school in her hom ...

(1934–2016), printmaker, painter, installation artist * Maguerite Mahood (1901–1989), painter, ceramist, printmaker * Hilarie Mais (born 1952), abstract painter, sculptor * Gillian Mann (1939–2007), printmaker * Diane Mantzaris (born 1962), digital artist, printmaker *

Nonggirrnga Marawili Nonggirrnga Marawili (c. 1939–2023) was an Australian Yolngu painter and printmaker. She was the daughter of the acclaimed artist and pre-contact warrior Mundukul. Marawili was born on the beach at Darrpirra,Skerritt, F. H. (2013). When Time' ...

(c1939-) painter, printmaker *

Banduk Marika Banduk Mamburra Wananamba Marika (13 October 1954 – 12 July 2021) was an artist and printmaker from Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. She was a member of the Rirratjingu clan of the Yolngu people, whose traditional land is Yalangba ...

(1954–2021), artist, printmaker * Stella Marks (1887–1985), painter * Linda Marrinon (born 1959), painter, sculptor *

Virginia Martin Virginia Martin (December 2, 1927 – August 27, 2009) was an American actress and singer known for her work on the Broadway stage and on television. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1963. Ear ...

(fl 2010), fashion designer * Nerine Martini (1968–2019), installation artist * Jenni Kemarre Martiniello (fl 2000s), aboriginal glass artist * Mervinia Masterman (1901–1998), illustrator *

Helen Maudsley Helen Maudsley (born 1927) is an Australian artist, who has been described as "one of Australia’s most tenacious and perhaps most underrated artists". Born in Melbourne in 1927, Maudsley has had regular solo exhibitions since 1957. She is best ...

(born 1927), painter, visual essayist * Galuma Maymuru (born 1951), painter *

Daphne Mayo Daphne Mayo (1 October 1895 – 31 July 1982) was a significant 20th-century Australian artist, most prominently known for her work in sculpture, particularly the tympanum of Brisbane City Hall, and the Women's War Memorial in ANZAC Square. ...

(1895–1982), sculptor *

Kathleen McArthur Kathleen McArthur (1915–2000) was an Australian naturalist, writer, botanical illustrator and conservationist. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, to Catherine and Daniel Evans. Her mother was a daughter of the Durack pastoral family, he ...

(1915–2001), botanical illustrator, environmentalist, naturalist *

Alice McCall Alice McCall is an Australian fashion designer. She is the founder of her eponymous fashion label, launched in 2004, that designs women's party dresses, playsuits, and separates. McCall pieces regularly appear in various Australian and internati ...

(fl 2004), fashion designer * Jennifer McCamley (born 1957), conceptual artist * Marie McMahon (born 1953) artist, printmaker *

Georgiana McCrae Georgiana Huntly McCrae (15 March 1804 – 24 May 1890) was an English-Australian painter and diarist. Early life Born in London, she was the illegitimate daughter of George Gordon, the Marquess of Huntly, son and heir to Alexander, 4th Duk ...

(1804–1890), painter, diarist *

Francine McDougall Francine McDougall is an Australian film director, film producer, photographer, television director, television producer and screenwriter. She is best known for directing the 2001 comedy film ''Sugar & Spice'', her feature film directorial debu ...

(living), filmmaker, photographer * Erica McGilchrist (1926–2014), painter, set and costume designer *

Queenie McKenzie Queenie McKenzie (Nakarra) (formerly Oakes, or Mingmarriya) (c. 1915 – 16 November 1998) was an Aboriginal Australian artist. She was born on Old Texas Station, on the western bank of the Ord River in the East Kimberley. Early life M ...

(c. 1920–1998), painter * Lucy McRae (born 1979), multimedia scientific fiction artist * Penny Meagher (1935–1995), painter * Lilian Marguerite Medland (1880–1955), illustrator, painter * June Mendoza (born 1924), portrait painter *

Dora Meeson Dora Meeson (1869–1955) was an Australian artist and an elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London, England. She was a member of the British Artists' Suffrage League. She was married to fellow artist George James Coates on ...

(1869–1955), painter * Annemieke Mein (born 1944), Dutch-born textile artist * Wolla Meranda (1863–1951), writer and illustrator * Mary Cockburn Mercer (1882–1963), painter *

Bertha Merfield Bertha Merfield (1869–1921) was an Australian painter and muralist. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. Biography Merfield was born in West Melbourne, Victoria on 30 January 1869 to Thomas and Isabella (né ...

(1869–1921), painter, muralist *

Lara Merrett Lara Merrett (born 1971) is an Australian visual artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, ...

(born 1971), visual artist *

Angelica Mesiti Angelica Mesiti (born 1976, Sydney) is an Australian video artist of Italian descent known for her large-scale video works. She presently lives and works in Paris. In 2009 Mesiti was the recipient of the 58th Blake Prize for her 10 minute vide ...

(born 1976), video artist * Sanné Mestrom (born 1979), sculptor *

Margaret Michaelis-Sachs Margaret (Margarethe) Michaelis-Sachs (née Gross, 1902 – 1985) was an Austrian-Australian photographer of Polish-Jewish origin. In addition to her many portraits, her scenes of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona and other places and her imag ...

(1902–1985), Polish-born photographer *

Jan Mitchell Jan Mitchell (1940 – 17 March 2008) was an Australian artist, born in Melbourne, known for her painted bollards and work as a television graphic artist. She spent her formative childhood years near Healesville, Victoria, before working in I ...

(1940–2008), painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker * Joanne Mitchelson (born 1971), painter *

Tracey Moffatt Tracey Moffatt (born 12 November 1960) is an Indigenous Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video. In 2017 she represented Australia at the 57th Venice Biennale with her solo exhibition, "My Horizon". Her works are held in th ...

(born 1960), photographer, filmmaker, video artist * Cheryl Moggs (living), watercolour painter, teacher * Anne Montgomery (1908–1991), painter, print maker, muralist *

May and Mina Moore May and Mina Moore were New Zealand-born photographers who made careers as professional photographers, first in Wellington, New Zealand, and later in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. They are known for their Rembrandt-style portrait photogr ...

(May 1881–1931, Minna 1882–1957), photographers *

Mirka Mora Mirka Madeleine Mora (18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of contemporary art in Australia. Her media included drawing, painting, scu ...

(1928–2018), French-born painter, sculptor, mosaic artist * Patricia Moran (1944–2017), painter * Harriet Morgan (1830–1907), natural history illustrator * Sally Morgan (born 1951), illustrator, author, dramatist * Christine Morrow (born 1971), British-born visual artist *

Eirene Mort Eirene Mort (1879–1977) was an Australian artist, art teacher, printmaker, cartoonist, fashion designer and founder of the Society of Arts and Crafts of New South Wales. Early life Eirene Mort was born on 17 November 1879 at Woollahra. Her ...

(1879–1977), artist, art teacher, printmaker, cartoonist, fashion designer * Celeste Mountjoy (living), artist, illustrator *

Patricia Mullins Patricia Mullins (born 1952) is a children's book illustrator. Some of Mullins' illustrations are in the collection of the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. Books Written and illustrated by Patricia Mullins *''A Crash of Rhinos: Fun With C ...

(born 1952), children's book illustrator * Rerrkirrwanga Mununggurr (born 1971), bark painting * Josephine Muntz Adams (1862–1949), painter *

Marrnyula Mununggurr Marrnyula Mununggurr (1964) is an Aboriginal Australian painter of the Djapu clan of the Yolngu people, known for her use of natural ochres on bark and hollow logs, wood carvings, linoleum and screen print productions. Biography Born in Nor ...

(born 1964), aboriginal painter * Rerrkirrwanga Mununggurr (born 1971), aboriginal painter * Alice Jane Muskett (1869–1936), painter *

Vali Myers Vali Myers (2 August 1930 – 12 February 2003) was an Australian artist, dancer, bohemian and muse whose coverage by the media was mostly in 1950s and 1960s in Europe and the United States. Early life Myers was born in Canterbury, New South W ...

(1930–2003), visual artist and dancer

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Doreen Reid Nakamarra Doreen Reid Nakamarra (1955 – 20 October 2009) was an Australian Aboriginal artist and painter. Reid was considered an important artist within the Western Desert cultural bloc. She was a leading painter at the Papunya Tula artist cooperative ...

(c.1955–2009), painter * Ruth Nalmakarra (born 1954), indigenous painter and weaver *

Rosella Namok Rosella Namok (born 19 May 1979) is an Indigenous Australian artist from Lockhart River, Queensland. Namok was taught art at high school and learned printmaking and other techniques through a community art project in 1997 that led to the form ...

(born 1979), painter * Narputta Nangala (1933–2010), painter * Yinarupa Nangala (born c.1960), indigenous painter *

Biddy Rockman Napaljarri Biddy Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1940) is a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She has been painting since 1986, and her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Life Biddy Rockma ...

(born c.1940), Warlpiri indigenous artist and painter *

Kitty Pultara Napaljarri Kitty Pultara Napaljarri (born c. 1930) is an Anmatyerre-speaking Indigenous Australian, Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region. Born at Napperby Station east of Yuendumu, Northern Territory, she wor ...

(born c.1930), indigenous painter *

Louisa Napaljarri Louisa Lawson Napaljarri (Pupiya) (c. 1930–2001) was a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Louisa commenced painting at Lajamanu, Northern Territory in 1986. Her work is held by the National Gallery of ...

(1930–2001), Warlpiri indigenous artist and painter *

Mona Rockman Napaljarri Mona Rockman Napaljarri (born c. 1924) is a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Her paintings and pottery are held in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria. Life Mona Rockman was born around ...

(born c.1924), indigenous painter and potter *

Ada Andy Napaltjarri Ada Andy Napaltjarri (born c. 1954) is a Warlpiri– and Luritja–speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Ada was born near Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, and has lived in several Northern Territory communities. ...

(born c.1954), indigenous painter *

Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri (c. 1955–2008) was a Pintupi language, Pintupi-Luritja-speaking Indigenous Australian, Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region, and sister of artist Molly Jugadai Napalt ...

(c. 1955–2008), painter *

Eileen Napaltjarri Eileen Napaltjarri (born 1956) is a Pintupi-speaking Aboriginal Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Eileen Napaltjarri, also known as Anyima Napaltjarri, began painting for Papunya Tula artists' cooperative in 1996. She was ...

(born 1956), indigenous painter *

Helen Nelson Napaljarri Helen Nelson Napaljarri (born c. 1949), also known as Helen White Napajarri or Helen Spencer Napaljarri, is a Walpiri-speaking Aboriginal artist from Australia's Western Desert region. A literacy worker in Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Napalja ...

(Born c.1949), aboriginal painter *

Norah Nelson Napaljarri Norah Nelson Napaljarri (born 26 October 1956) is a Warlpiri-speaking Aboriginal artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Norah Nelson began painting in 1986 and has exhibited her works both in Australia and other countries. Her paintin ...

(born 1956), Warlpiri indigenous artist and painter *

Sheila Brown Napaljarri Sheila Brown Napaljarri (–2003) was a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. A contributor to major collaborative paintings by Indigenous communities, her works are also held by the Art Gallery of New South ...

(c.1940–2003), indigenous painter *

Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri (1954–2011) was a Pintupi- and Luritja-speaking Aboriginal artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Her paintings are held in major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia. Life Molly Juga ...

(c. 1954–2011), painter *

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (born c. 1948; also known as Ngnoia) is a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Ngoia Pollard married Jack Tjampitjinpa, who became an artist working with the Papunya Tula compan ...

(born c. 1948), painter *

Nora Andy Napaltjarri Nora Andy Napaltjarri (born c. 1957) is a Warlpiri- and Luritja-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. like her mother Entalura Nangala, Nora has painted for Indigenous artists' cooperative Papunya Tula. Her work has ...

(born c.1957), indigenous painter * Parara Napaltjarri (1944–2003), indigenous painter *

Tjunkiya Napaltjarri Tjunkiya Napaltjarri (also known as Tjunkiya Kamayi, Tjungkiya, Tunkaii Napaltari, Kowai or Kamayi) (c. 1927–2009) was a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She is the sister of artist Wintjiya Napaltja ...

(c. 1927–2009), painter *

Wintjiya Napaltjarri Wintjiya Napaltjarri (born between ca. 1923 to 1934) (also spelt Wentjiya, Wintjia or Wentja), and also known as Wintjia Napaltjarri No. 1, is a Pintupi-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. She is the sister of ar ...

(living), painter *

Makinti Napanangka Makinti Napanangka ( 1930 – 9 January 2011) was a Pintupi language, Pintupi-speaking Indigenous Australians, Indigenous Australian artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region. She was referred to posthumously ...

(1930–2011), Pintupi indigenous artist and painter *

Dorothy Napangardi Dorothy Napangardi (born early 1950s – 1 June 2013) was a Warlpiri language, Warlpiri speaking contemporary Indigenous Australian artist born in the Tanami Desert and who worked in Alice Springs. Life Dorothy Napangardi was the daughter of ...

(died 2013), painter *

Pansy Napangardi Pansy Napangardi (born 1948) is an Australian artist. She is associated with the Jukurrpa group of women artists in Alice Springs where she lives today. Early life She was born at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia. She remains one of t ...

(born 1948), indigenous painter * Lily Kelly Napangardi (born c. 1948), painter * Yalti Napangati (born c. 1970), painter *

Nell Nell is a traditional nickname for Eleanor. Nell is the name of: People Given name * Nell (artist) (born 1975), Australian artist * Nell Blaine (1922–1996), American painter * Nell Bryden (born 1977), American singer * Nell Carter (1948–2003), ...

(born 1975) artist, performance, video, sculpture, painting *

Jan Nelson Jan Nelson (born 1955) is an Australian artist who works in sculpture, photography and painting. She is best known for her hyper real images of adolescents. She has exhibited widely in Australia as well as Paris and Brazil. Her works are in the c ...

(born 1955), sculptor, photographer, painter *

(born 1956), indigenous painter * Norie Neumark (living), American-born sound artist *

Lucy Newell Lucy Colgate Newell (29 September 1906 – 22 May 1987) was an Australian artist noted for painting and textile printing. Biography Newell was born in 1906 in Castlemaine, Victoria to artist Alice Newell and her husband Lt. Colonel Francis Sa ...

(1906–1987), painter, textile printer *

Ann Newmarch Ann Foster Newmarch (9 June 1945 – 13 January 2022) , known as "Annie", was a South Australian painter, printmaker, sculptor and academic, with an international reputation, known for her community service to art, social activism and feminism. ...

(born 1945), painter, printmaker, sculptor *

June Newton June Newton (née Browne, 3 June 1923 – 9 April 2021) was an Australian model, actress, and photographer. As an actress she was known professionally as June Brunell and won the Erik Kuttner Award for Best Actress in 1956. From 1970 onward s ...

(1923–2021), photographer, actress * Kathleen Ngale (born c.1930), aboriginal Batik artist and painter * Mavis Ngallametta (1944–2019), painter, weaver *

Hilda Rix Nicholas Hilda Rix Nicholas ( Rix, later Wright, 1 September 1884 – 3 August 1961) was an Australian artist. Born in the Victoria (Australia), Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionism, Australian Impressio ...

(1884–1961), painter *

Philippa Nikulinsky Philippa Mary Nikulinsky (born 1942) is an artist and botanical illustrator based in Western Australia. Biography Nikulinsky was born in Kalgoorlie in 1942, a remote region in central Western Australia. She began working as an illustrator of ...

(1942), painter, illustrator * Deborah Niland (born 1950), children's book illustrator, author *

Kilmeny Niland Kilmeny Niland (1950 – 27 February 2009) was a New Zealand–born Australian artist and illustrator. While best known for her children's book illustrations, she worked in a wide range of genres, including animation, wildlife art, miniatures, ...

(1950–2009), painter, illustrator * Rose Nolan (born 1959) visual artist * Susan Norrie (born 1953) painter, video artist *

Bess Norriss Elizabeth May Norriss, later Bess Norriss Tait, (17 May 1878 – January 1939) was an Australian artist. Life Norriss was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1878. She studied at Melbourne Art Gallery School and in 1905 at the Slade School of Fin ...

(1878–1939), artist *

Rosaleen Norton Rosaleen Miriam Norton (2 October 1917 – 5 December 1979), who used the name of Thorn, was a New Zealand-born Australian artist and occultist, in the latter capacity adhering to a form of pantheistic / Neopagan Witchcraft largely devoted to t ...

(1917–1979), painter, occultist * Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (born 1967), contemporary indigenous artist *

Naata Nungurrayi Naata Nungurrayi (born 1932) is an Australian Aboriginal artist. Life Nungurrayi was born at the site of Kumil, west of the in Western Australia in 1932. She is from the Pintupi group from Kintore, Northern Territory and is one of the senio ...

(born 1932), indigenous painter *

Lena Nyadbi Lena Nyadbi (born 1936, near Warnmarnjulugun lagoon, Western Australia) is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist from the Warmun Community in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her works include ''Dayiwul Lirlmim'', details of ...

(born c. 1936), painter, installation artist

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* Denese Oates (born 1955), sculptor * Carla O'Brien (living), installation artist * Kathleen O'Brien (1914–1991), comic artist, illustrator, fashion artist * Mel O'Callaghan (born 1975) contemporary artist, video, performance, sculpture, installation, painting *

Ailsa O'Connor Ailsa Margaret O'Connor (née Donaldson) (26 January 1921 – 3 February 1980) was an Australian artist specialising in sculpture and painting in the style of realism. Following her belief that art and artists cannot be separated from questions ...

(1921–1980), sculptor, painter, teacher, activist * Kathleen O'Connor (1876–1968), New Zealand-born painter *

Helen Ogilvie Helen Elizabeth Ogilvie (4 May 1902, in Corowa – 1 August 1993, in Melbourne) was a twentieth-century Australian artist and gallery director, cartoonist, painter, printmaker and craftworker, best known for her early linocuts and woodcuts, and ...

(1902–1993), painter, printmaker *

Pixie O'Harris Pixie O'Harris (born Rhona Olive Harris; 15 October 1903 – 17 November 1991) was a Welsh-born Australian artist, newspaper, magazine and book illustrator, author, broadcaster, caricaturist and cartoonist, designer of book plates, sheet music ...

(1903–1991), Welsh-born illustrator, cartoonist, painter, author * Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge (1869–1948), sculptor and medallist *

Bronwyn Oliver Bronwyn Joy Oliver (née Gooda, 22 February 1959 – 10 July 2006) was an Australian sculptor whose work primarily consisted of metalwork. Oliver was raised in rural New South Wales. She trained at Sydney's Alexander Mackie College of Ad ...

(1959–2006), sculptor *

Narelle Oliver Narelle Oliver (1960 - 2016) was an Australian artist, print maker and award-winning children's author-illustrator. Early life Narelle Oliver was born on 25 February 1960 and grew up in Toowoomba in south east Queensland. Career Oliver majored ...

(1960–2016), painter, print maker, illustrator *

Margaret Olley Margaret Hannah Olley (24 June 192326 July 2011) was an Australian painter. She was the subject of more than ninety solo exhibitions. Early life Margaret Olley was born in Lismore, New South Wales. She was the eldest of three children of Jo ...

(1923–2011), painter * Rosemary Opala (1923–2008), illustrator, writer, nurse * Mandy Ord (born 1974), comic artist * Raquel Ormella (born 1969), multimedia artist *

Jan Ormerod Jan Ormerod (23 September 1946 – 23 January 2013), born Janet Louise Hendry, was an Australian illustrator of children's books. She first came to prominence from her wordless picture book ''Sunshine'' which won the 1982 Mother Goose Award. He ...

(1946–2013), illustrator * Jill Orr (born 1952), performance artist, photographer, installation artist * Maria Josette Orsto (1962–2020) painter, printmaker, sculptor *

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, also known as Ida Sherbourne Rentoul and Ida Sherbourne Outhwaite (9 June 1888 – 25 June 1960), was an Australian illustrator of children's books. Her work mostly depicted magical creatures, such as elves and fair ...

(1888–1960), children's book illustrator

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* Ewa Pachucka (1936–2020), textile artist, sculptor *

Margaret Paice Margaret Dawn Paice (1 September 1920 – 19 November 2016) was an Australian children's writer, commercial artist and book illustrator. Early life and education Margaret Dawn Cantle was born in Brisbane, Australia on 1 September 1920, daug ...

(born 1920), commercial artist, illustrator *

Josonia Palaitis Josonia Palaitis (born 1949) is an Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia. She won the 1994 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize with a portrait of her father artist John Mills. In 1995 she won the Archibald Prize People's Choice award wit ...

(born 1949), painter * Polixeni Papapetrou (1960–2018), photographer * Wendy Paramor (1938–1975), painter, sculptor * Jacki Parry (born 1941), painter, print maker * Allyson Parsons (born 1965), landscape painter *

Klytie Pate Klytie Pate (20 October 1912 – 10 June 2010) was an Australian studio potter who emerged as an innovator in the use of unusual glazes and the extensive incising, piercing and ornamentation of earthenware pottery. She was one of a small group ...

(1912–2010), ceramist *

Esther Paterson Esther Paterson Gill (5 February 1892 8 August 1971) was an Australian artist, book-illustrator and cartoonist. Early years Paterson was born in Carlton, Victoria, the second child born to Scottish emigrants Hugh and Elizabeth Leslie (''née' ...

(1892–1971), painter, cartoonist, book illustrator * Anelia Pavlova (born 1956), Bulgarian-born painter, printmaker, illustrator, ceramist * Sue Pedley (born 1954), multimedia artist * Adelaide Perry (1891–1973), artist, printmaker, art teacher * Katie Perry (born 1980), fashion designer *

Gloria Petyarre Gloria Petyarre, also known as Gloria Pitjara was born in 1942 in Utopia, Northern Territory, Australia. She was an Aboriginal Australian artist from the Anmatyerre community, just north of Alice Springs. One of her best known works is "Bush M ...

(1942–2021), painter *

Jeanna Petyarre Jeanna Petyarre (b. 1950), also known as Jeannie Petyarre, is a member of a family of artists that includes Kathleen Petyarre, Ada Bird Petyarre and Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Jeanna Petyarre is from the Utopia district of Central Australia. Her w ...

(born 1950), painter *

Kathleen Petyarre Kathleen Petyarre (born Kweyetwemp Petyarre; c. 1940 – 24 November 2018) was an Australian Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal artist. Her art refers directly to her country and her Dreaming (spirituality), Dreamings. Petyarre's paintings have ...

(c. 1940–2018), painter *

(born 1950), painter *

Nancy Petyarre Nancy Kunoth Petyarre (between 1934 and 1939 – August 2009) was an Indigenous Australians, Australian Aboriginal artist who lived in Utopia, Northern Territory, Utopia, 170 miles north east of Alice Springs. The second eldest of the famous and ...

(died 2009), painter * Caroline Phillips (born 1966), sculptor *

Debra Phillips Debra Phillips (born 1958) is an Australian artist. Her main practice is photography but she also works across other forms such as sculpture and moving image. She has been an exhibiting artist since the 1980s, is a part of many collections, and ...

(born 1958), photographer, sculptor *

Frances Phoenix Frances Phoenix (née Budden) (1950–2017) was an Australian feminist artist known for needlework and poster designs. Phoenix contributed to the Women's Art Movement groups in both Sydney and Adelaide, as well as multiple community art projec ...

(1950–2017), artist, needlework, poster designer *

Patricia Piccinini Patricia Piccinini (born 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone) is an Australian artist who works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. Her works focus on "unexpected consequences", conv ...

(born 1965), mixed media artist, painter, sculptor, digital artist, installation artist *

Julianne Pierce Julianne Pierce is an Australian new media artist, curator, art critic, writer, and arts administrator. She was a member of the groundbreaking group VNS Matrix. She went on to become a founding member of the Old Boys Network, another importan ...

(living), new media artist, curator, art critic * Rosslynd Piggott (born 1958), installation artist. painter *

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott Gwyn Hanssen Pigott OAM (1935–2013) was an Australian ceramic artist. She was recognized as one of Australia’s most significant contemporary artists. By the time she died she was regarded as "one of the world's greatest contemporary potters ...

(1935–2013), ceramist * Anne Pincus (born 1961), painter, sculptor * Lillian Louisa Pitts (1872–1947), photographer * Kerrie Poliness (born 1962), conceptual artist * Elizabeth Presa (born 1956), visual artist *

Margaret Preston Margaret Rose Preston (29 April 1875 – 28 May 1963) was an Australian painter and printmaker who is regarded as one of Australia's leading modern art, modernists of the early 20th century. In her quest to foster an Australian "national art", ...

(1875–1963), painter, printmaker *

Jane Price Jane Rebecca Price (18 February 1860 – 24 May 1948) was an Australian painter who was a foundation member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Two of her works have been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria and tw ...

(1860–1948), painter * Elizabeth Prior (1929–2018), painter, sculptor, ceramist *

Thea Proctor Thea may refer to: * Thea (name), a given name * Ancient Greek term for goddess, including an alternative spelling of Theia * ''Thea'', the former name of the tea plant genus, now included in ''Camellia'' * Thea, a village in the municipal unit Mes ...

(1879–1966), painter *

Betty Kuntiwa Pumani Betty Kuntiwa Pumani is an Aboriginal Australian artist from Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara in South Australia. Her paintings have won several awards, including the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award and the 2017 Wynne ...

(born 1963), painter * Angelina Pwerle (born c. 1946), painter *

Minnie Pwerle Minnie Pwerle (also Minnie Purla or Minnie Motorcar Apwerl; born between 1910 and 1922 – 18 March 2006) was an Australian Aboriginal artist. She came from Utopia, Northern Territory (''Unupurna'' in local language), a cattle station in the ...

(died 2006), painter * Mabel Pye (1894–1982), painter, print maker

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* Mandy Quadrio, contemporary artist

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Melinda Rackham Melinda Rackham is an Australian artist, writer and curator. Education and early art Rackham studied sculpture and performance at the College of Fine Arts in Sydney, graduating in 1989 with the Sculpture and Alumni prizes. It was here she was ...

(born 1959), digital artist * Stephanie Radok (born 1954), artist, writer, curator *

Iso Rae Isobel Rae (18 August 1860 – 16 March 1940) was an Australian impressionist painter. After training at Melbourne's National Gallery of Victoria Art School, where she studied alongside Frederick McCubbin and Jane Sutherland, Rae travel ...

(1860–1940), impressionist painter *

Tamara Ralph Tamara Ralph (born 29 November 1981) is an Australian fashion designer who is the former Creative Director and co-founder of Ralph & Russo. Early life and education Ralph was born on 29 November 1981 in the Sutherland Shire and is the fourth gene ...

(born 1981), fashion designer * Jessica Rankin (born 1971), embroiderer * Eugenia Raskopoulos (born 1959), photography, video art * r e a (born 1962), photographer, installation artist * Geraldine Rede (1874–1943), artist * Jacky Redgate (born 1955), sculptor, installation artist, photographer * Norma Redpath (1928–2013), painter, sculptor *

Alison Rehfisch Alison Baily Rehfisch (23 January 1900 – 12 March 1975) was an Australian painter born in Sydney. Early life Alison Rehfisch was born as Alison Baily Green on 23 January 1900 in Woollahra, Sydney, and grew up in Mosman. Her mother, who was a ...

(1900–1974), painter * Susan Respinger (born 1982), portrait artist, muralist *

Gladys Reynell Gladys Reynell (1881–1956) was one of South Australia's earliest potters and is known for her bold modernist style and her preference for working with native clays. Family and education Reynell was born on 4 September 1881 in Glenelg, a s ...

(1881–1956), potter *

Kate Rich Kate Rich is an Australian-born artist and trader, currently living in Bristol, United Kingdom. Her practice includes sound art, video art, social practice, hospitality, and sport art. Work In the 1990s Rich co-founded the Bureau of Invers ...

(living), sound artist, video artist * Therese Ritchie (born 1961), contemporary artist, writer, graphic designer *

(1884–1961), painter * Freda Rhoda Robertshaw (1916–1997), artist, painter *

Peggy Rockman Napaljarri Peggy Rockman Napaljarri (also known as Peggy Yalurrngali Rockman Napaljarri) (born c. 1940) is a Warlpiri language, Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous Australian, Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert cultural bloc, Western Desert region. ...

(born c.1940), indigenous artist and painter *

Toni Robertson Toni Robertson (born 1953) is a visual artist, art historian and printmaker from Sydney, Australia. She is known for her poster making and involvement in the Earthworks Poster Collective, which operated out of the "Tin Shed" art workshops at ...

(born 1953), visual artist, art historian printmaker * Amanda Robins (born 1961), painter, drawer *

Julia Robinson Julia Hall Bowman Robinson (December 8, 1919July 30, 1985) was an American mathematician noted for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory—most notably in decision problems. Her work on Hilbe ...

(born 1981), sculptor, textile artist *

Florence Aline Rodway Florence Aline Rodway (11 November 1881 – 23 January 1971) was an Australian artist best known for her portraits. Born in the Tasmanian city of Hobart, she was the second of six children to Leonard Rodway and Louisa Susan, née Phillips. She ...

(1881–1971), painter, drawer, portrait artist *

Lisa Roet Lisa Roet (born 1967) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Melbourne. She studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. In 2005 she received the McClelland Sculpture Prize. The sculpture, ''White Ape'', is now part of the co ...

(born 1967), sculptor, drawer, photographer, filmmaker * Madeleine Rosca (born 1977), comic artist *

Maggie Napaljarri Ross Maggie Napaljarri Ross (born c. 1940) is an Aboriginal Australian artist. Her work has been collected by Artbank and the Kluge-Ruhe Museum in the United States. Life Maggie Ross was born east of Yuendumu, Northern Territory around 1935 or 1940, ...

(born c.1940), aboriginal painter *

Celia Rosser Celia Elizabeth Rosser (born 1930) is an Australian botanical illustrator, best known for having published ''The Banksias'', a three-volume series of monographs containing watercolour paintings of every ''Banksia'' species. Born Celia Elizabe ...

(born 1930), botanical illustrator * Joan Ross (born 1961), mixed media painter * Daisy Rossi (1879–1974), painter, interior designer *

Caroline Rothwell Caroline Rothwell (born 1967, Kingston upon Hull, Hull, England) is an artist who works mainly within sculpture. She currently lives and works in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Rothwell's works have been exhibited (in both group and solo sho ...

(born 1967), sculptor, installation artist * Cybele Rowe (born 1963), ceramist *

Rachel Roxburgh Rachel Mary Roxburgh (21 September 1915 – 13 April 1991) was an Australian artist, potter, colonial historian and environmental activist. Early life and education Roxburgh was born in Point Piper, New South Wales, Point Piper, New South Wal ...

(1915–1991), painter, potter *

Julie Rrap Julie Rrap (also known as Julie Parr, Julie Brown or Julie Brown-Rrap, born 1950) is an Australian contemporary artist who was raised on the Gold Coast in Queensland She was born Julie Parr, and reversed her name to express her sense of opposit ...

(born 1950), photographer, sculptor, painter *

Carol Rudyard Carol Rudyard (18 November 1922 – 15 May 2021) was an English-Australian visual artist, known for her audio-video art installations. She was nominated as a Western Australian Living Treasure in 2004. Her works are held in the National Gallery ...

(1922–2021), visual artist * Nura Rupert (born c. 1933), printmaker, painter * Lola Ryan (1925–2003), shellworker *

Rosemary Ryan Rosemary Ryan (born 8 November 1975) is a retired Ireland, Irish long-distance runner who was on the Ireland 2000 Summer Olympics team. Born in Limerick (city), Limerick, she attended the University of Limerick between 1996 and 1998.

(1926–1996), painter *

Therese Ryder Therese Ryder (born 1946) (skin name: Ngale – Perrule) is an Eastern Arrernte artist from Ltyentye Apurte Community, 82 km south east of Alice Springs. Ryder, part of the Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, is primarily a landscape a ...

(born 1946), painter, linguist

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Jenny Sages Jenny Sages is an Archibald Prize People's Choice Award winning Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China. She is known for her abstract landscape paintings and portraits. She arrived in Australia in 1948. After being expelled from East Sy ...

(born 1933), Chinese-born painter, illustrator *

Yhonnie Scarce Yhonnie Scarce (born 1973) is an Australian glass artist whose work is held in major Australian galleries. She is a descendant of the Kokatha and Nukunu people of South Australia, and her art is informed by the effects of colonisation on Indigeno ...

(born 1973), glass artist *

Margaret Scobie Margaret Scobie (born 1948 in Woola Downs, Utopia, Northern Territory, Australia) is an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community, just north of Alice Springs. Scobie is from one of the most famous Aboriginal artistic families, ...

(born 1948), aboriginal artist and painter * Joyce Scott (born 1942), painter and ceramist *

Helena Scott Helena "Nellie" Scott (1832 Sydney – 1910) was an Australian illustrator of natural history. She was also a botanical collector who collected a number of type specimens. She and her sister Harriet Morgan (1830–1907) were the daughters of ...

(1832–1910), natural history illustrator *

Nicola Scott Nicola Scott is a comics artist from Sydney, Australia whose notable works include ''Birds of Prey'' and ''Secret Six''. In 2016, she and writer Greg Rucka relaunched ''Wonder Woman'' for DC Comics Rebirth Archive requires scrolldown. and crea ...

(living), comic artist *

Sheila Scotter Sheila Winifred Gordon Scotter, AM, MBE (2 December 1920 – 6 April 2012) was an Australian businesswoman. She was a fashion designer and third editor of the ''Vogue Australia'' magazine. She also founded the '' Vogue Living'' magazine. ...

(1920–2012), fashion designer *

Margaret Senior Margaret Senior OAM (1917 – 25 January 1995) was an English/Australian Natural History, Wildlife and Children's Book Illustrator. She contributed to a significant portion of early Illustration of Australia's exploration of rich natural Fau ...

(1917–1995), illustrator *

Dora Serle Dora Beatrice Serle (1875–1968), was an Australian painter. She was the president of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors from 1933–1934. Biography Serle was born on 2 September 1875 in Melbourne, Australia. She studied ...

(1875–1968), painter * Raelene Sharp (born 1957), portrait painter *

Wendy Sharpe Wendy Sharpe (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She is the only child of British parents and has a Russian Jewish heritage. Her father is the writer and historian Alan Sharpe. She counts ...

(born 1960), painter * Heather Shimmen (born 1957), painter, printmaker *

Ivy Shore Ivy Shore (14 January 1915 – 25 August 1999; known as Billie Shore; born Ivy Williams) was an Australian painter. Shore was a student of tonal impressionist Graeme Inson, and also Inson's partner for the last 40 years of her life. She was the ...

(1915–1999), painter * Irena Sibley (1943–2009), painter, illustrator * Dawn Sime (1932–2001), abstract painter *

Norah Simpson Norah Simpson (5 July 1895 – 19 February 1974) was an Australian modernist painter. She grew up in Sydney and is described as "giving impetus to modernism" in Australia: when returning from France in 1913, she brought back a series of rep ...

(1895–1974), painter *

Alexia Sinclair Alexia Sinclair (born 1976) is an Australian fine-art photographer. She studied Fine Arts in Sydney at The National Art School (1995–1998). She majored in traditional photography and her studies in painting, drawing, sculpture, and art histor ...

(born 1976), photographer * Sally Smart (born 1960), assemblage installation artist *

Gemma Smith Gemma Smith (born 1978) is an Australian painter and sculptor, who is Sydney-based. Smith has been the recipient of numerous grants and been invited to join multiple exhibitions. She is known for her continuous experimentations with colour and a ...

(born 1978), painter, sculptor *

(1892–1984), painter, illustrator *

Wendy Solling Wendy Hope Solling (1926 – 20 January 2002) was an Australian sculptor, Anglican Franciscan nun, and one of the earliest women ordained in the Anglican Church of Australia. Early life and education Wendy Hope Solling was born to Daisy Cl ...

(1926–2002), sculptor *

Clara Southern Clara Southern (3 October 1860 – 15 December 1940) was an Australian artist associated with the Heidelberg School, also known as Australian Impressionism. She was active between the years 1883 and her death in 1940. Physically, Southern was t ...

(1861–1940), painter *

Bianca Spender Bianca Spender (born 18 November 1977) is an Australian fashion designer. Early life Spender was born in 1976 to Italian Australian fashion designer Carla Zampatti and former Liberal politician John Spender QC. Spender has a sister, Allegra S ...

(born 1977), fashion designer * Ruby Spowart (born 1928), photographer *

Ethel Spowers Ethel Louise Spowers (11 July 1890 – 5 May 1947) was an Australian artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London. She was especially known for her linocuts, which are included in the collections of major Australian and ...

(1890–1947), printmaker, illustrator * Robyn Stacey (born 1952), photographer, photo-artist *

Paula Stafford Paula Stafford OAM (10 June 1920 – 23 June 2022) was an Australian fashion designer credited with introducing the bikini to Australia. Graeme Potter, director of Queensland Museum South Bank, called her "Australia's original bikini designer" ...

(1920–2022), fashion designer *

Miriam Stannage Miriam Stannage (1939–2016) was an Australian conceptual artist. She was known for her work in painting, printmaking and photography, and participated in many group and solo exhibitions, receiving several awards over her career. Her work was ...

(1939–2016), painter, printmaker, photographer *

Madonna Staunton Madonna Pearl Staunton (6 October 1938– 16 December 2019) was an artist and poet who lived in Brisbane. She is known for her works on Australian Modernism. Background and career Madonna Staunton was born in Murwillumbah on 6 October 1938 an ...

(1938–2019), artist, poet * Sophie Steffanoni (1873–1906), landscape painter, embroiderer * June Ethel Stephenson (1914–1999), painter, printmaker * Amanda Stewart (born 1959), performance artist, poet * Janet Agnes Cumbrae Stewart (1883–1960), painter *

Kunmanara Stewart Kunmanara "Nellie" Stewart ( 1938–2012), a senior Pitjantjatjara woman, was an Australian artist. She commenced painting later in life, and painted about Minyma Kutjara Tjukurpa, Two Women Creation Dreaming. Collections Her works are found ...

(c.1938–2012), indigenous artist and painter * Mary Stoddard (1852–1901), Scottish-born painter *

Constance Stokes Constance Stokes (née Parkin, 22 February 1906 – 14 July 1991) was an Australian modernist painter who worked in Victoria. She trained at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School until 1929, winning a scholarship to continue her study a ...

(1906–1991), painter, drawer * Dorothy Stoner (1904–1992), painter *

Marina Strocchi Marina Strocchi (born 28 December 1961) is an internationally-exhibited Australian painter and printmaker whose work is held in many national collections. Strocchi is based in Alice Springs and has worked extensively with Aboriginal artists in C ...

(born 1961), painter * Nora Sumberg (born 1956), landscape painter *

Jane Sutherland Jane Sutherland (26 December 1853 – 25 July 1928) was an Australian landscape painter who was part of the pioneering plein-air movement in Australia, and a member of the Heidelberg School. Her advocacy to advance the professional standing of fe ...

(1853–1928), landscape painter *

Ruth Sutherland Ruth Sutherland (1884–1948), was an Australian painter and art critic. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. Biography Sutherland was born in Adelaide in 1884. She was granddaughter to notable sketcher George Su ...

(1884–1948), painter * Chern'ee Sutton (born 1996), contemporary visual artist * Heather B. Swann (born 1961), sculptor *

Jo Sweatman Estelle Mary (Jo) Sweatman (1872-1956), was an Australian painter. She was a founding member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society. Early life and training Sweatman was born in South Yarra 1872. She took drawing classes at a suburban ladi ...

(1872–1956), painter * Linda Syddick Napaltjarri (born c. 1937), painter *

Eveline Winifred Syme Eveline Syme (26 October 1888 – 6 June 1961) was an Australian artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art, and an advocate for women's post-secondary education. Early life Eveline Winifred Syme was born in Thames Ditton, Surrey, ...

(1888–1961), painter, printmaker

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* Takariya Napaltjarri (born c,1960), indigenous artist and painter *

Jane Tanner Barbara Jane Tanner, known as Jane Tanner, (born 29 November 1946 in Melbourne) is an Australian children's book illustrator. Majoring in painting and printmaking at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, she worked as a traditional artist for ...

(born 1946), children's book illustrator *

Tjunkaya Tapaya Tjunkaya Tapaya (born 1947) is an Aboriginal Australian artist. She is most recognised for her batik work and is one of the best-known batik artists in Australia. Her works also include acrylic paintings, weaving, fibre sculpture, ceramics, w ...

(born 1947), aboriginal batik artist *

Ruth Tarvydas Ruta Anna "Ruth" Tarvydas (c. 1947 – 16 May 2014) was an Australian fashion designer. Born in Germany to Lithuanian parents, her family emigrated to Perth, Western Australia, when Tarvydas was two years old. She opened her first boutique at t ...

(c. 1947–2014), fashion designer *

Latai Taumoepeau Latai Taumoepeau (born 1972) is an Australian contemporary artist. She is best known for her performance art, which explores the politics of race, colour and power in Australia. She has shown her works in leading Sydney galleries and venues incl ...

(born 1972), contemporary artist * Pulya Taylor (born 1931), sculptor, craftsmaker, woodworker * Stephanie Taylor (1899–1974), artist, printmaker, gallerist, lecturer, art writer, broadcaster *

Violet Teague Violet Helen Evangeline Teague (21 February 1872 – 30 September 1951) was an Australian artist, noted for her painting and printmaking. Early life and training The only daughter of Melbourne homeopath James Teague and his wife Eliza Jane Mil ...

(1872–1951), painter, mural designer * Kathy Temin (born 1968), synthetic fur artist * Betty Temple Watts (1901–1992), illustrator *

Thancoupie Dr Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher James (1937-2011) was an Australian sculptural artist, educator, linguist and elder of the Thainakuith people in Weipa, in the Western Cape York area of far north Queensland. She was the last fluent speaker of the ...

(1937–2011) sculptor, artist *

Shona Joy Thatcher Shona Joy Thatcher is an Australian fashion designer and owner of the label "Shona Joy". Early life Born in Melbourne, Thatcher grew up loving to watch her mother get ready for an event or a party and having input into what she wore. As a ch ...

{fl 2000), fashion designer * Margaret Thomas (1842–1929), painter, writer * Ann Thomson (born 1933), painter and sculptor * Lesbia Thorpe (1919–2009), printmaker * Emma Timbery (c. 1842–1916), shellworker *

Esme Timbery Esme Timbery (born 14 February 1931 and also known by her married name, Russell) is an Australian Bidjigal shellworker. Timbery's shellwork has contemporary elements, blended with the traditional medium. She has work in the collections of severa ...

(born 1931), shellworker * Wingu Tingima (died 2010), painter *

Tjanpi Desert Weavers Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a social enterprise of the NPY Women's Council, representing over 400 women from 26 unique communities in the NPY (Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara) region. Tjanpi is the Pitjantjatjara word for a type ...

(from 1995) weavers * Topsy Tjulyata (born 1931), sculptor, craftsmaker, woodworker * Jasmine Togo-Brisby (born 1982), sculptor * Sophia Tolli (fl 2006), fashion designer * Aida Tomescu (born 1955), Romanian-born painter * Mollie Tomlin (1923–2009), painter * Mary Tonkin (born 1973), drawer *

Jessie Traill Jessie Constance Alicia Traill (29 July 1881 – 15 May 1967) was an Australian printmaker. Trained by Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, and by painter and printmaker Frank Brangwyn in London, Traill worked in ...

(1881–1967), printmaker, painter * Barbara Tribe (1913–2000), sculptor, painter * Zoja Trofimiuk (born 1952), Czech-born sculptor, printmaker *

Marie Tuck Marie Anne Tuck (5 September 1866 – 3 September 1947), was an artist and art educator in South Australia. History Marie Tuck was born at Mount Torrens, South Australia, one of eight children of Edward Starkey Tuck (13 March 1827 – 9 August ...

(1866–1947), painter, art educator * Ruth Tuck (1914–2008), painter * Maringka Tunkin (born 1959) artist, painter *

Mazie Turner Mazie Karen Turner (1954 - 7 June 2014) was an artist from Newcastle, Australia. She worked in photography, sculpture and painting. She was born in Sydney in 1954 to parents Jim and Zug. After attending art school, she moved to Wangi Wangi, ...

(1954–2014) painter, photographer, sculptor *

Isabel May Tweddle Isabel May (Diana) Tweddle (1875–1945), was an Australian painter. She was a member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors and the Twenty Melbourne Painters Society Inc. Biography Tweddle was born Isabel May Hunter on 26 ...

(1875–1945), painter

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Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann AM (born 1950) is an Australian Aboriginal activist, educator and artist of the Ngan’gityemerri language group. Ungunmerr-Baumann is the first Indigenous teacher to work in the Northern Territory. and the own ...

(born 1950), painter, educator

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May Vale May Vale (1862–1945), was an Australian painter. She was reportedly the first women to be elected a member of the Buonarotti Society. Biography Vale was born in Ballarat on 18 November 1862. Her family moved to Melbourne 1872. Her family the ...

(1862–1945), painter *

Lesley Vanderwalt Lesley Vanderwalt is a New Zealand cinematic hair designer and makeup artist. Vanderwalt was raised and began her career in New Zealand before moving to Australia, where she has frequently collaborated with directors such as George Miller and Baz ...

(living), makeup artist *

Vicki Varvaressos Vicki Varvaressos is an Australian contemporary figurative expressionist painter. Sometimes referred to as a “transitional artist”, her painting style and subject matter has evolved throughout her career. Many of her works are of women and t ...

(born 1949), painter *

Vexta Vexta is an Australian stencil artist and street artist from Melbourne, Victoria. Career Beginning her career as an artist predominately working on the streets of Melbourne and Sydney, New South Wales, Vexta is now considered to be one of Aus ...

(living), stencil artist, street artist * Julie Vieusseux (1820–1878), painter *

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn Savanhdary Vongpoothorn (born 1971) is a Laotian-born Australian visual artist. She immigrated with her parents as a seven-year old, and through studies and travel has integrated Laotian, Vietnamese and Australian influences in her art. Her art ...

(born 1971), Laotian-born painter

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Megan Walch Megan Walch (born Tasmania 1967) is a contemporary Australian painter. Biography Walch graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, 1989 and was the recipient of an Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship in ...

(born 1967), painter * Anna Frances Walker (1830–1913), illustrator * Rose A. Walker (1879–1942), painter *

Theresa Walker Theresa Snell Walker (1807 – 17 April 1876) was an Australian sculptor and wax modeller who created medallion portraits. Born in England, Walker migrated to Australia with her sister, Martha Berkeley, and brother-in-law Captain Charles Berkel ...

(1807–1876), sculptor, wax modeller * Anne Wallace (born 1970), painter * Kathleen Kemarre Wallace (born 1948), indigenous painter, custodian *

Christian Waller Christian Marjory Emily Carlyle Waller (Yandell) (2 August 1894 - 25 May 1954) was an Australian printmaker, illustrator, muralist and stained-glass artist. At 15 she moved to Melbourne, where she studied at the National Gallery School. In 1915 ...

(1894–1954), painter, writer, printmaker, illustrator, book designer, woodcutter, stained-glass artist *

Lynette Wallworth Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist and filmmaker, known for her use of emerging technologies such as virtual reality (VR), and interactive installations. She is known for her 2016 VR project ''Collisions'', which tells of the "collision" ...

(living), installation artist *

Joan Walsh-Smith Joan Walsh-Smith (born 1946) is an Australian sculptor who works in a variety of mediums and materials. Walsh-Smith has worked on several large-scale memorials throughout Australia. Her most well-known work is the National Australian Army Memor ...

(born 1946), sculptor *

Ania Walwicz Ania Walwicz (1951 – 29 September 2020) was an Australian poet, playwright, prose writer and visual artist. Early life Walwicz was born in Swidnica Polska, Swidnica, Poland where she spent her childhood, before migrating to Australia in 1963 ...

(1951–2020), visual artist, poet * Rosie Ware (born 1959), textile designer, printmaker *

Sera Waters Sera Waters is a South Australian textile artist, arts writer, and arts educator. She lectures at Adelaide Central School of Art. Biography Sera Waters was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia, in 1979. She has a Bachelor of Visual Arts ( ...

(born 1979), textile artist, arts writer, arts educator * Jenny Watson (born 1951), painter *

Judy Watson Judy Watson (born 1959) is an Australian Waanyi multi-media artist who works in print-making, painting, video and installation. Her work often examines Indigenous Australian histories, and she has received a number of high profile commissions ...

(born 1959), multimedia artist *

Lilla Watson Lilla Watson (born 1940) is a Murri (Indigenous Australian) visual artist, activist and academic working in the field of Women's issues and Aboriginal epistemology. Early life and advocacy Watson is a Gangulu woman who grew up in the Dawson ...

(born 1940), mixed media artist * Betty Temple Watts (1901–1992), scientific illustrator *

Louise Weaver Louise Weaver (born 1966) is a contemporary Australian artist working in an array of media including sculptural installations, paintings, drawings, printmaking, collage, textiles, movement and sound. She is best known for her installation and sc ...

(born 1966), mixed media artist *

Johanna Weigel Johanna Wilhelmine Weigel, née Astmann (11 February 1847 – 10 January 1940), known professionally as Madame Weigel, was a designer and publisher of dressmaking patterns in Australia. Biography Weigel was born on 11 February 1847 in Posen ...

(1847–1940), fashion designer *

Barbara Weir Barbara (originally Florrie) Weir (born c. 1945, died 3 January 2023) is an Australian Aboriginal artist and politician. One of the Stolen Generations, she was removed from her Aboriginal family and raised in a series of foster homes. In the ...

(born c. 1945), aboriginal painter * Carlene West (born c. 1945), painter *

Katie West Katie West is a Yindjibarndi Western Australian interdisciplinary artist, exhibiting multi-sensory installations. Her exhibitions often feature dyed textiles and native plants, sewn and woven. She documents the processes of her work as a form o ...

(living), interdisciplinary artist *

Kaylene Whiskey Kaylene Whiskey, is a Pitjantjatjara artist from Indulkana, a remote Aboriginal community, in South Australia. Whiskey is a contemporary Aboriginal artist who is exhibited in many important Australian galleries and won the 2018 Sir John Sulman ...

(fl 2010s), indigenous artist *

Ilka White Ilka Jane White is an Australian artist. Her practice spans projects in textiles, drawing, sculpture and installation, art-in-community and cross disciplinary collaboration. Direct engagement with the natural world is central to White’s making ...

(living), textile artist, sculptor * Susan Dorothea White (born 1941), painter, sculptor, printmaker *

Wendy Whiteley Wendy Susan Whiteley (; 1941) is best known as the former wife of the Australian artist Brett Whiteley, and as the mother of their daughter, actress Arkie Whiteley (1964–2001). She has become a notable cultural figure, particularly since her ...

(born 1941), landscape artist, flower artist * Ada Whiting (1859–1953), painter, miniaturist * Anne Wienholt (1920–2018), painter, sculptor, printmaker *

Normana Wight Normana Wight (born 1936 in Melbourne) is an Australian artist, best known as a painter and printmaker. Early life and education Wight studied painting at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1954–57) and after a short time as a fabri ...

(born 1936), painter, printmaker *

Cathy Wilcox Cathy Wilcox (born 1963) is an Australian cartoonist and children's book illustrator, best known for her work as a cartoonist for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and ''The Age'' newspapers. She has also twice won the Australian Children's Book Cou ...

(born 1963), comic artist, children's book illustrator *

Dora Wilson Dora Lynnell Wilson (31 August 1883 – 21 November 1946) was a British-born Australian artist, best known in her adopted country of Australia for her etchings and street scenes. Early life Dora Lynnell Wilson was born on 31 August 1883 in Newc ...

(1883–1946), British-born Australian painter and print maker * Ju Ju Wilson (fl 2000s), contemporary indigenous artist *

Regina Pilawuk Wilson Regina Pilawuk Wilson is an Australian Aboriginal artist known for her paintings, printmaking and woven fiber-artworks. She paints syaws (fish nets), warrgarri (dilly bag), and message sticks. Her work has been shown in many Australian and inter ...

(fl 2000s), aboriginal artist * Justene Williams (born 1970), photographer, multimedia artist *

Jan Williamson Jan Williamson is an Australian artist. She is a mother of nine children. She is known for winning the Archibald Prize Packing Room Prize twice in a row: in 2002 with a portrait of Jenny Morris—which also won the People's Choice Award&m ...

(living), painter * Ruby Tjangawa Williamson (c. 1940–2017), painter, woodworker *

(1883–1946), British-Australian painter and print maker * Ju Ju Wilson (living), painter, craftsmaker * Margery Withers (1894–1966), painter * Women's Domestic Needlework Group est 1976, traditional craft work * Maeve Woods (born 1933), painter, collage artist *

Pauline Nakamarra Woods Pauline Nakamarra Woods (born 1949) is an Aboriginal Australian artist. Her first name is spelled ''Pauleen'' in some sources. Early life Woods was born in 1949, Vaughan Springs, west of Yuendumu, and grew up in Yuendumu. She later lived in Ali ...

(born 1949), aboriginal artist and painter * Tjayanka Woods (born c. 1935), painter, weaver * Margaret Worth (born 1944), painter, screenprinter, sculptor *

Judith Wright Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 191525 June 2000) was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award. Biography Judith Wright was born in Armidale, New Sou ...

(born 1945), painter, videomaker, sculptor, printmaker

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* Bin Xie (born 1957), Chinese-born painter

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* Paji Honeychild Yankarr (c. 1912–2004), painter * Noela Young (1930–2018), book illustrator and children's author * Yaritji Young (born c. 1956) painter *

Gulumbu Yunupingu Gulumbu Yunupingu (1943 – 10 May 2012), after her death known as Djotarra or Ms Yunupingu, was an Australian Aboriginal artist and women's leader from the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Early life a ...

(1943–2012), indigenous artist *

Nancy Gaymala Yunupingu Nancy Gaymala Yunupingu (1935–2005; also rendered Yunupiŋu) was a senior Yolngu artist and matriarch, who lived in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, Australia. She worked at the Buku-Larrnggay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala, where her wor ...

(c.1935–2005), indigenous bark painter and print maker *

Nyapanyapa Yunupingu Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (1945 – 20 October 2021) was an Australian Yolngu painter and printmaker who lived and worked in the community at Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory. Yunupingu created works of art that drastically diverg ...

(c. 1945–2021), painter

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Anne Zahalka Anne Zahalka (born 1957) is an Australian artist and photographer. Her work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, National Gallery of Victoria, State Library of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Australia. ...

(born 1957), photographer *

Carla Zampatti Carla Maria Zampatti , (19 May 1942 – 3 April 2021) was an Italian-born Australian fashion designer and businesswoman, and executive chair of the fashion label Carla Zampatti Limited. Background Born in Lovero, Italy in 1942, Zampatti se ...

(1942–2021), fashion designer * Aheda Zanetti (born 1967), fashion designer

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Australian women artists - Australian women artists, List of Artists, List of Australian women

Artists An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the ...