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List Of Australian Artists
This is a list of Australian artists. A * Anita Aarons (1912–2000): sculptor * Harold Abbott (1906–1986): painter * Ian Abdulla (1947–2011): Ngarrindjeri naive artist * Abdul Abdullah (born 1986): multimedia artist * Jack Absalom (1927–2019): artist, author and adventurer * Louis Abrahams (1852–1903): painter, etcher * Tate Adams (1922–2017): artist * Joyce Allan (1896–1966): scientific illustrator * Micky Allan (born 1944): photographer * Beverly Allen (born 1945): botanical artist * Davida Allen (born 1951): painter, filmmaker and writer * Mary Cecil Allen (1893–1962): painter, writer * Mary Morton Allport (1806–1895): lithographer, etcher and engraver, landscapes and miniatures * Ernie Althoff (born 1950): musician, composer, instrument builder, and visual artist * Tony Ameneiro (born 1959): artist, printmaker * Rick Amor (born 1948): artist and figurative painter * Roy Ananda (born 1980): sculptor * Brook Andrew (born 1970): contemporary arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Aarons
Anita Aarons (6 November 1912 – 3 January 2000) was an Australian-Canadians, Canadian artist. Life Born in Sydney, Aarons studied at the East Sydney Technical College and the National Art School in Sydney before moving to New York City, where she graduated from Columbia University in 1964. She exhibited work in venues in the United States, Canada, and Australia. She taught sculpture and crafts in a number of institutions, and designed stained glass windows, furniture, and jewelry, in addition to working as a sculptor. Collections which include examples of her work include the Charlottetown National Craft Collection and the National Collection of the Canadian Craftsmen Guild in Toronto. On 25 June 1951, Aarons was invited to attend a meeting of the City of Sydney's Health and Recreations Committee to discuss her submission to erect a piece of sculpture in the children's playground of Phillip Park. The Council approved the submission on 2 October 1951. The sculpture was remov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Ananda
Roy Ananda is a South Australian artist and arts educator. He is Head of Drawing at Adelaide Central School of Art. Biography Roy Ananda was born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1980. He has a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from Adelaide Central School of Art and a Master of Arts from the University of South Australia. Ananda was the South Australian recipient of the Qantas Foundation Art Award in 2010. His work has featured in the 2012 Heysen Sculpture Biennial and the 2018 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Portraits of Ananda by Deidre But-Husaim have been finalists in the 2011 Archibald Prize and the 2011 Doug Moran Portrait Prize. Ananda was awarded the South Australian Living Artist Festival Publication in 2021. Ananda is married to artist Julia Robinson. Artistic style and subject Ananda is known for his large-scale sculptures and drawings referencing fandom and pop culture. ''Slow Crawl into Infinity'' recreated the opening words of Star Wars as a lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hany Armanious
Hany Armanious (born 1962) is an Egyptian born, Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney. Armanious produces installations and sculptural forms, as well as paintings and drawings. Life and work Hany Armanious was born in Ismailia, Egypt and migrated to Australia with his family at the age of 6. He completed his schooling in Australia and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) degree from the City Art Institute, Sydney and a doctorate in Creative Arts from the University of Wollongong.) Since 2019 he has been Head of Sculpture at the National Art School in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. In the early nineties Armanious considered a ‘key figure’ in a number of artists who critics noted as being influenced by the grunge movement. Although born in Egypt and conscious of its cultural ties, Armanious’s work does not specifically reference that culture. He has been described as an artist who can 're-describe objects' using ‘poor materials’. As his practice has de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Arkley
Howard Arkley (5 May 1951 – 22 July 1999) was an Australian artist. He is known for his airbrushed paintings of Melbourne suburbia. Life and career After seeing exhibitions of works by Melbourne artists Sidney Nolan and John Brack, Arkley developed an interest in art. Nolan's use of household materials was particularly inspirational, as was the abstract art Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Arkley studied at Prahran College of Advanced Education from 1969 to 1972, where he discovered the airbrush, which he subsequently used in his paintings as he desired smooth surfaces. He staged his first exhibition, aged 24, at Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, in 1975. Most of his early works were abstract, often depicting patterns or lines created with airbrush. Arkley's works were initially black and white, then he began experimenting with colour. A turning point in Arkley's career was in 1981 when he created ''Primitive'', a mural, which caught the attention of the public. In 1982 he pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Apponyi
Silvio Apponyi (born 4 July 1949) is an Australian sculptor based in the Adelaide Hills in South Australia, noted for depictions of animals. Early life and education Apponyi was born on 4 July 1949 in a refugee camp in Dachau, Bavaria, Dachau, near Munich, migrating to Australia during infancy. His father Albert Frederick (Frigyes) Apponyi claimed descent from an illegitimate line of the Apponyi family. The family moved to Adelaide, and Apponyi had a difficult home life. He started wood carving when he was about five years old. He attended Woodville High School (South Australia), Woodville High School, where he was encouraged to apply for a scholarship to art school. Career Apponyi studied sculpture at the North Adelaide School of Arts, and during that time won a German Academic Exchange Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD), and went on to study for a year at the Munich Academy. Since then he has had one-man shows and group exhibitions locally, interstat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Appleton
Jean Appleton (13 September 1911 – 11 June 2003) was an Australian painter, art teacher and printmaker. She worked with oils, watercolour, charcoal, pastel, pencil and India ink. The second of three children and an only daughter, Appleton did a five-year diploma course in drawing and illustration at the East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School). She later moved to England and enrolled at the Westminster School of Art where she produced Australia's two earliest cubist paintings. After the Second World War broke out, Appleton returned to Australia in 1940, to teach art at three public schools to allow for the continuation of her work and assisted in the war effort by studying vocational therapy. Her work received a large amount of recognition from the art industry, and she earned four prizes. Biography Early life and education Appleton was born in the Sydney suburb of Ashfield on 13 September 1911. She was the second of three children and the only daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Annois
Leonard Lloyd Annois (1 July 1906 – 10 July 1966) was an Australian painter of watercolors. History Annois was born in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern to William Alfred Annois and Elsie Miriam Annois, née Lloyd. His father was a well-known cricketer and singer, a member of the Harmonists quartet and male alto in St Paul's Cathedral choir. Annois participated in numerous exhibitions and won numerous prizes for his art, which has been praised for its use of traditional English techniques with modern sensibilities, and has been associated with ballet in various contexts. He spent most of the year 1950 in London, working and associating closely with other Australian artists, before returning to Australia and another exhibition at Georges Gallery, 162 Collins Street. Personal Annois married Mavis Nunn of St Kilda, Victoria St Kilda is an inner seaside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, southeast of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Annand
Douglas Shenton Annand (22 March 1903 – 14 December 1976) was an Australian graphic designer and artist. Early life Born at Toowoomba, Queensland, to Frederick Annand and Helen Alice Robinson. Douglas attended Tudor House School, located in Moss Vale. He later returned (1956) and painted a mural on the rear wall of the memorial hall at Tudor House. Annand studied commercial art at the Central Technical College in Brisbane. He moved to Sydney in his twenties and remained there for the rest of his life. Career After working for several firms, he began as a freelance artist and designer in 1931. His poster for the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1932 was very well known. He did commercial work for department stores like Farmers, David Jones, Grace Bros and Anthony Hordern & Sons. He designed the ceiling of the Australian Pavilion for the 1937 Paris International Exhibition. In 1939, he became Design Director for the Australian Pavilion at the New York World's F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Anivitti
Giulio Anivitti (1850–1881) was an artist, art teacher, portrait painter and gallery curator. Early life Born in Rome, Papal States, in 1850 to Luigi Anivitti and Antonia Ermini, he studied at Accademia di San Luca in Rome. He was a pupil of Alessandro Capalti. Career He emigrated to Sydney, Australia, in 1874. He was hired to teach painting and drawing at the newly opened Art Training School. From 1875, he participated in annual art exhibits promoted by the New South Wales Academy of Art. In 1875, he won a gold medal for his portrait of Charles Badham commissioned by the University of Sydney.C. Badham, letter 1878, in Macarthur papers (State Library of New South Wales) In 1876, he had 30 students at the Art Training School. Among his pupils were Amandus Julius Fisher, W.T. Butler, Percy Williams and Frank P. Mahony. Other commissioned pieces were portraits of William Hovell, Cannon Robert Allwood, Archbishop John Bede Polding, John Sutherland and William Branwhit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Angus (artist)
James Angus (born 1970 in Perth) is an Australian artist. He is known for "his engaging and rigorously crafted sculptures", and large-scale sculptures that often explore geometry, architecture, and the distortion of familiar objects. ''Grow Your Own'' is among his most recognised public artworks. Biography James Angus was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1970. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from Curtin University of Technology and a Master of Fine Arts (Sculpture) from Yale University School of Art. He has also lectured at University of Technology Sydney. Selected grants and awards Angus has received the following awards: *Fulbright Postgraduate Award, 1996 *Yale University Travelling Fellowship, 1998 *Australia Council Professional Development Grant, 1998 and 2001 *Studio residency, Cite des Arts, Paris, 2003 *Short listed for National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, 2005 *Basil Sellers Art Prize, Melbourne; 2008 *Australia Council Fellowship, 2009 Exhibit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George French Angas
George French Angas (25 April 1822 – 4 October 1886), also known as G.F.A., was an English explorer, naturalist, painter and poet who emigrated to Australia. His paintings are held in a number of important Australian public art collections. He was the eldest son of George Fife Angas, who was prominent in the early days of the colonisation of South Australia. Biography He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, the eldest son of George Fife Angas, prominent in the establishment of the new colony of South Australia. Despite showing remarkable talent in drawing, he was placed in a London business house by his father. He left on a tour of Europe and in 1842 published his first book, ''Rambles in Malta and Sicily''. As a result of this experience, he turned his back on the world of commerce, and directed his training towards a study of natural history, anatomical drawing and lithography. Embarking on his travels, he was soon to find his acquired skills extremely useful. Angas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Andrews (industrial Designer)
Gordon Andrews (10 January 1914 – 17 January 2001) was an Australian artist, graphic designer, and industrial designer. He is best known for the design of Australia's first decimal banknotes. His work also included the design of products such as cookware, jewellery, and furniture, as well as interior design, exhibition design, painting, sculpture, and photography. "He is widely acknowledged as one of Australia's most prominent mid-20th century multi-disciplinary artists." Early life and education Gordon Arthur Andrews was born in Ashfield, NSW. He studied engineering at East Sydney Technical College before switching to graphic design. After graduation, he worked for a Sydney advertising agency, and then moved to London, where he lived and worked prior to World War II. He returned to Australia in 1939. Career and legacy During the war, Andrews worked as a draftsman for De Havilland, and later, as a supervisor of an experimental hangar. In the 1950s he worked on commission ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
