Australian Furniture Designers 1930-2000

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Smith, James, b. 1813
Nephew of James Cook, related to Isaac Smith, the colonial artist painted portraits and the marine. Some of his more accomplished works include two large ...
Updated March 9, 2013
Taylor, James, b. 1846
James Taylor was a professional photographer who emigrated from Scotland to South Australia in 1864. He settled in Gawler, where he operated a photographic studio. ...
Updated Feb. 28, 2013
Marchant, Edwin Walter, b. 1849
Part of a large family of photographers, Edwin Marchant emigrated from England to South Australia in 1861. His main interest was in portraiture, where he ...
Updated Feb. 27, 2013
Lott, William James
William James Lott was a portrait photographer who worked in a studio in Adelaide during the 1870s and 1880s. He primarily photographed women, children and ...
Updated Feb. 27, 2013
Marchant, Samuel Bowering, b. 1870
A signwriter by trade, Samuel Marchant was also a portrait photographer based in Balaklava in South Australia's Mid-North. He was the oldest surviving son of ...
Updated Feb. 27, 2013
Marchant, Ebenezer Tasman, b. 1887
Ebenezer Marchant was part of a large family of photographers who worked primarily in South Australia. Originally an assistant in his father’s studio in Gawler, ...
Updated Feb. 27, 2013
Browne, Richard, b. 1776
A convict artist of the early nineteenth century. His early works are of natural history subjects; later he turned to figurative work, particularly of Indigenous ...
Updated Feb. 24, 2013
Eyre, John, b. 1771
One of the convict artists, Eyre produced watercolour views of Sydney, outstanding for their detailed precision. His pictures were an outstanding success, selling in 1814 ...
Updated Feb. 24, 2013
Marchant, Philip James, b. 1846
Philip Marchant was a colonial photographer in South Australia. Skilled in various photographic processes, he produced a double portrait of himself while showing no signs ...
Updated Feb. 14, 2013
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Benini, Bruno, b. 1925
Photographer Bruno Benini migrated to Australia from Italy in 1935. As a commercial and fashion photographer, Benini captured the works of many Australian and international ...
Updated Feb. 9, 2013
Boyd, Daniel, b. 1982
Daniel Boyd was born in Cairns, Queensland, in 1982. He lives and works in Sydney, New South Wales. His work was exhibited in 'Culture Warriors' ...
Updated Feb. 4, 2013
Graham, Philip Mitchell
Updated Jan. 25, 2013
Peggy Stokes P/L
Peggy Stokes P/L was the business name of two unidentified sisters based in Bowral NSW who made furniture and furnishings for the interior designer Hilda ...
Updated Jan. 24, 2013
Bebarfalds
Bebarfalds was a department store providing interior design services to Sydney clients. In the 1930s, the furniture department provided interior sketch plans & ground plans ...
Updated Jan. 24, 2013
Newport, William John, b. 1838
Newport was a lithographer whose work focused mainly on Northern Territory scenes. Newport was listed in South Australian directories for 1867/1868.
Updated Jan. 10, 2013
Greenwood, W. H.
Greenwood is known through designs for a suite of Queensland maple furniture for the Erskineville Council building in 1938. Greenwood designed revolving chairs, armchairs. standard ...
Updated Dec. 24, 2012
Hickie, Philip, b. 1927
Hickie was a designer who worked in theatre design, then for the ABC television's design department. In 1964, he established Patrician Films and directed shorts. ...
Updated Dec. 21, 2012
Hansen, John, b.
New media artist who has worked across a range of electronic media. His practice has traversed kinetic sculpture, lighting shows and installations, electronic jewellery, video ...
Updated Dec. 15, 2012
Wright, Leslie John, b. 1951
Wright was a West Australian furniture designer and maker who worked as a Denmark WA farmer and photographer before returning to study at the West ...
Updated Dec. 5, 2012
May, Philip William, b. 1864
Significant English cartoonist who worked in Sydney and Melbourne for three years in the late Colonial period: "a rival to Charles Keene as England's greatest ...
Updated Dec. 4, 2012
Jeffreys, Arthur, b.
Arthur served in the Royal Navy but retired as lieutenant in 1840 and settled in New South Wales after which he married and worked as ...
Updated Nov. 29, 2012
White, James, b. 1862
James White was a sculptor, based in Sydney. He created a marble bust representing Harry Rickards in 1911.
Updated Nov. 28, 2012
Chauncy, Auschar C., b. 1836
Portrait, landscape and transparency painter born in London. He worked in Brisbane, Rockhampton and Gympie in Queensland and 'obtained considerable celebrity as a portrait and ...
Updated Nov. 21, 2012
Lewin, John William, b. 1770
Colonial Sydney painter, art teacher and naturalist, was the first free artist to settle in New South Wales and attempted to make a living as ...
Updated Nov. 20, 2012
Palmer, W.
The exact extent and depth of Palmer's work is largely unknown though he is credited with painting all the windows in Holy Trinity Church of ...
Updated Nov. 12, 2012