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Peirce, Augustus Baker, b. 1840
Widely travelled Colonial era American-born sketcher, comic illustrator, caricaturist, painter, scene-painter, professional photographer, sailor, theatrical performer and entrepreneur.
Pell, Sarah Jane, b. 1974
As an artist and commercial diver, Dr. Sarah Jane Pell consults, produces and performs underwater media and designs interdisciplinary sci-art laboratories as new forms of ...
Pelloe, Emily Harriet, b. 1877
Emily Harriet Pelloe was a wildflower painter, author, naturalist, journalist and equestrienne. Well known for her riding expeditions, she became an expert botanist contributing to ...
Pendered, J. C.
J. C. Pendered was a sketcher and merchant seaman. He came to Melbourne in 1853. Pendered's album of pencil sketches drawn in Australian waters is ...
Penglase, Marjory, b. 1922
Painter, theatrical designer and teacher, Marjory Penglase married fellow artist, Newton Hedstrom, and won numerous awards during her career. In later years she travelled extensively ...
Pentland, W. W.
W. W. Pentland was a professional photographer in Melbourne in the 1850s. He was listed as a 'Daguerrean artist' and had a studio on Bourke ...
Pepper-Dawes, Arthur
Arthur Pepper-Dawes, painter of Gunai/Kurnai (Victoria) descent uses designs that are representative of his cultural heritage.
Peppercorn, Thomas
Thomas Peppercorn was a drawing master who became the first teacher in the School of Art and Design at the Prahran Mechanics Institute in 1870.
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Perceval, John, b. 1923
John Perceval had little formal training as an artist, but after he fell ill with polio at the age of 15 he concentrated on painting ...
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Perceval, Celia, b. 1949
Perry, Adelaide, b. 1891
Painter, printmaker and art teacher with her own studios and art schools in Sydney. Perry also studied, worked and exhibited in London and Paris. Her ...
Perry, George William, b. 1824
Professional photographer, exhibited and well-recognised. Achievements include 'Perry-o-type' process, 1864; and telescopic photographs of 'the largest primary pictures of the moon', 1872.
Perugini, Edward, b. 1882
Perugini arrived in Australia ca.1906 with training at the South Kensington School of Art. He worked in advertising in Victoria and was active in design ...
Pestell, Margaret, b. 1894
Printmaker and painter, trained at NGV School in late 1920s then lived and worked in England. On her return, she exhibited continuously with the Melbourne ...
Peters, Helen Alice, b. 1866
Peters is a painter, art teacher and pianist. She spent most of her life in Geelong, Victoria.
Peters, Dot
Dot Peters of Healesville, Victoria, is a basket and eel trap weaver who won the Australia Council for the Arts' 2002 Red Ochre Award. Taught ...
Peterson, A. Stuart, b. 1900
Mid 20th century New Zealand and Australian newspaper cartoonist and caricaturist
Pettit, John Heathfield Wroth, b. 1828
John Henry Wroth Pettit was a sketcher, architect, builder and surveyor. In 1856, Pettit, in an architectural partnership with George Hastings, designed the Early English ...
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Petty, Bruce Leslie, b. 1929
Popular and prolific Melbourne, London and Sydney based newspaper cartoonist, film-maker, animator, sculptor and etcher
Peyman,
Mr Peyman was a professional photographer who worked in Victoria in the 1860s. He was variously in partnerships with Taggett and Barcroft Capel Boake.