Port Kembla, NSW, 14 February 1931
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Shellworker, Esme Timbery lives and works in La Perouse, NSW. Her shellworked harbour bridges are created from wood, glue, cardboard, fabric, glitter and shells gathered from the beaches of the NSW south coast. read more.
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Julie Blyfield
Melbourne , Vic., 1957 -
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Yvonne Koolmatrie
Wudinna, SA, 1944 -
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Louisa Maria Peterson
Maryborough, QLD, 11 March 1871 -
Needlework,Berlin woolwork
Vernon Ah Kee. Vernon Ah Kee is a drawer, photographer, screen-printer, video and text based installation artist who was included in the 2008 Biennale of Sydney.
Bridget Currie. Bridget Currie was a Founding Member and Co-Director of Downtown Artist Run Space in Adelaide from 2002-2006. She has undertaken artist residencies in Sydney and Japan, and in 2010 was a recipient of the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship.
Margaret Olley. After her first Australian solo painting exhibitions, Olley worked and exhibited in France in the 1950s. An endearing personality, Olley had many travelling and working friendships with other Australian artists. Olley died at her home in Paddington, Sydney, on 26th July 2011.
Darren Sylvester. Sylvester's multi-disciplinary artistic practice encompasses photography, video, sculpture, text and painting. His choreographed photographic images are rendered with intense, glossy clarity. Themes in his work include relationships, emotions, urban alienation and the passing of time..
J. E. Ward. Late colonial period cartoonist and illustrator. Painter of Birds of Paradise and native life in Papua.
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