Alison Rehfisch was deeply influenced by theosophy and spiritualism. Her tendency to mysticism found expression in the new Modernist vision to reveal the truths of ...
After studying painting under Margaret Preston, who she travelled with to Paris and London, she taught craft to shell-shocked soldiers. On returning to Australia she ...
William Ricketts is well-known for his handmodelled ceramic sculptures and vessels with modelled heads and figures of Aboriginals. He valued the spirituality of the Aboriginal ...
An early activist for womens' rights, a theosophist and life long feminist, Bessie Mabel Rischbieth was a well known figure in Perth. Her early training ...
Painter of neoclassical figure paintings and landscapes, Robertshaw knew lean times as a commercial artist, exhibited with the Society of Artists, the Royal Art Society ...
Painter, working in Adelaide since the 1940s. While discussing 'In Context: Australian Women Modernists' Bruce James singled out Barbara Robertson and Erica McGilchrist.