Edmund Capon

Edmund Capon

male
Australian, Chinese art, Sydney FC, Order of the British Empire, Art curator, Order of Australia…Art director, Art critic, Art historian, ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales
Dr Edmund Capon AM OBE (born 1940 in England) is an art scholar specialising in Chinese art. He has been director of the Art Gallery of New South...
Margaret Olley

Margaret Olley

female, 86 years old
painter, ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales, Lismore, New South Wales, Mosman Art Prize, Archibald Prize, Order of Australia…Companion of the Order of Australia
Margaret Olley AC (born 24 June,1923 in Lismore, New South Wales) is an Australian painter. Her work concentrates on the still life. In 1997 a...
Rover Thomas

Rover Thomas

male, deceased (1998)
indigenous australian, Australian Aboriginal artist, venice biennale, canberra, Stockman, kimberley…National Gallery of Australia, ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales, Kimberley region of Western Australia, Roads Cross The Paintings of Rover Thomas
Rover Thomas Joolama was an Indigenous Australian artist. He was born at Gunawaggi in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. At the age of...
Howard Arkley

Howard Arkley

male
painter, Juan Davila, Fabricated Rooms, Ian Potter Centre, ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales, Carnival in Suburbia The Art of Howard Arkley…National Gallery of Victoria, national portrait gallery
Howard Arkley (1951-1999) was an Australian artist, born in Melbourne. Arkley believed that the rural and suburbian culture of Australia influenced...
Julian Ashton

Julian Ashton

male, deceased (1942)
Australian, artist, Impressionist, Schoolteacher, Barbizon School, ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales…Sydney Art School
Julian Rossi Ashton (27 January 1851 - 27 April 1942) was an Australian artist and teacher, known for his support of the Heidelberg School and for...
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri

male, deceased (2002)
indigenous australian, aboriginal art, Australian Aboriginal artist, northern territory, dot art, Order of Australia…Date of birth unknown, ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales, art, Friends of Yiribana NAIDOC
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1933-21 June 2002) was an Australian painter considered one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal...
Gloria Petyarre

Gloria Petyarre

female
Australian Aboriginal artist, utopia, artist, australian aboriginal, dreamtime, yam…National Gallery of Australia, ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales
Gloria Petyarre, Australian Aboriginal artist from the Anmatyerre community who live just north of Alice Springs. She won Australia's longest...
John Mawurndjul

John Mawurndjul

male
Australian, Kuninjku, ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales, Arnhem Land, National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery…National Gallery of Victoria, museum of contemporary art
John Mawurndjul (born 1952) is an Australian indigenous artist. He is a member of the Kuninjku people of West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, and...
Nora Heysen

Nora Heysen

female, deceased (2003)
painter, new guinea, War artist, Australian, Archibald Prize winner, German Australian…Member of the Order of Australia, Order of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales
Nora Heysen AM (January 11, 1911 - December 30, 2003) was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize for...
Lionel Lindsay

Lionel Lindsay

male, deceased (1961)
Modernism, painter, Australian, arab, etching, watercolour…ArtGalleryofNewSouthWales, National Gallery School, Addled Art
Sir Lionel Arthur Lindsay was an Australian artist. Lindsay was born in the Victorian town of Creswick, the brother of artist Norman Lindsay and...