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This is a list of Australian artists.

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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, film maker 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 artist

Daisy Andrews (c. 1934/1935–2015): Aboriginal painter

Garry Andrews (born 1957): painter, printmaker and art teacher

Gordon Andrews (1914–2001): industrial and graphic designer; designed Australia's first decimal banknotes

George French Angas (1822–1886): painter

James Angus (born 1970): sculptor

Giulio Anivitti (1850–1881): artist, art teacher, portrait painter and gallery curator

Douglas Annand (1903–1976): graphic designer and artist

Len Annois (1906–1966): watercolors

Jean Appleton (1911–2003): prize-winning painter, printmaker, art teacher

Silvio Apponyi (born 1949): German-Australian sculptor

Howard Arkley (1951–1999): painter of houses, architecture, and suburbia

Hany Armanious (born 1962): artist

Elizabeth Armstrong (1859–1930): artist and art teacher

Ian Armstrong (1923–2005): painter and printmaker

Raymond Arnold (born 1950)

Alison Marjorie Ashby (1901–1987): botanical artist

James Ashton (1859–1935): artist and arts educator

Julian Ashton (1851–1942): artist and teacher

Julian Howard Ashton (1877–1964): journalist, writer, artist and critic

Will Ashton (1881–1963): artist and gallery director

Olive Ashworth (1915–2000): textile designer

Estelle Asmodelle (born 1964): abstract artist, musician, and academic

Cristina Asquith Baker (1868–1960)

Mireille Astore (born 1961): artist, writer and film maker

Michael Atchison OAM (1933–2009): South Australian cartoonist

Louisa Atkinson (1834–1872): illustrator, botanist, writer

Yvonne Audette (born 1930): painter

J. Muir Auld (1879–1942): painter of landscapes and figure subjects

Daryl Austin (born 1964): painter and arts education

Narelle Autio (born 1969): photographer

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Joseph Backler (1813–1895): English-born Australian painter

Herbert Badham (1899–1961): realist painter

Thomas Baines (1820–1875): English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia

Jeannie Baker (born 1950): English-born children's picture book author and artist

Maringka Baker (born c. 1952): painter

Normand Baker (1908–1955): artist, winner of 1937 Archibald Prize

Arthur Baker-Clack (1877–1955): expatriate Impressionist painter of landscapes, resident of the Étaples art colony

Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 1954): Swiss–Australian contemporary artist

George Baldessin (1912–1978): Italian–Australian artist

Alice Marian Ellen Bale (1875–1955): exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors

Percival Ball (1845–1900): English sculptor active in Australia

Sydney Ball (1933–2017): abstract painter

Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958): fashion designer, illustrator

Rosalie (Ros) Edith Bandt (born 1951): composer, sound artist, academic and performer

William Barak (1824–1903): Aboriginal artist of traditional Indigenous life and encounters with Europeans

Irene Barberis (born 1953): English-born painter, installation artist, drawer

Caroline Barker (1894–1988): painter

Elsie Barlow (1876–1948): painter, printmaker

Gustave Barnes (1877–1921): English violinist, painter and sculptor

Virginia Barratt (born 1959): researcher, artist, writer and performer

Jeremy Barrett (born 1936): artist

Ethel Barringer (1883–1925): etcher

Gwen Barringer (1882–1960): watercolourist

Herbert Page Barringer (1886–1946): watercolourist

Del Kathryn Barton (born 1972): artist, winner of 2008 and 2013 Archibald Prizes

Margaret Baskerville (1861–1930): Victorian sculptor and painter

Tom Bass (1916–2010): sculptor

Edward La Trobe Bateman (1861–1897): painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and garden designer

H. M. Bateman (1887–1970): humorous artist and cartoonist

Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman (aka Piers Bateman)(1947–2015): landscape painter

Terry Batt (born 1949): artist and sculptor

Rex Battarbee (1893–1973): painter

Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826): Austrian botanical illustrator

Lionel Bawden (born 1974): artist

Clark Beaumont (formed 2010) (Sarah Clark and Nicole Beaumont), video, performance art

John Beard (born 1943): painter, winner of 2006 Wynne Prize and 2007 Archibald Prize

John Watt Beattie (1859–1930): photographer

Christopher Beaumont (born 1961): still life painter

Clarice Beckett (1887–1935): painter

Paddy Bedford (1922–2007): Indigenous artist and architect

Bianca Beetson: Aboriginal artist

Marcus Beilby (born 1951): artist, winner of 1987 Sulman Prize

George Bell (1878–1966): painter who studied in London and Paris

Richard Bell (born 1953): painter who courted controversy

Robert Stewart Bell AM (1946–2018): artist in ceramics and textiles and arts curator

Lisa Bellear (1961–2006): photographer, poet, dramatist, comedian

Jean Bellette (1908–1991): painter

Allana Beltran: performance artist

Jason Benjamin (1971–2021): painter, winner of 2005 Archibald Prize

Anthony Bennett (born 1966): painter, Archibald Prize finalist 2008, 2009

Gordon Bennett (1955–2014): Aboriginal artist

Jane Bennett (born 1960): painter

Portia Mary Bennett (1898–1989): painter

Stephen Benwell (born 1953): ceramicist

Moira Bertram (1929–?): comic artist, illustrator

Kevin Best (1932–2012): artist, awarded the Order of Australia (OAM)

Kate Beynon (born 1970): artist

Charles Billich (born 1934): artist

Asher Bilu (born 1936): painter and sculptor

Vivienne Binns (born 1940): artist, awarded the Order of Australia (OAM)

Karna Maria Birmingham (1900–1987): artist, illustrator and print maker

Dorrit Black (1891–1951): painter, printmaker

Charles Blackman (1928–2018): landscape artist

Freya Blackwood (born 1975): illustrator, special effects artist

Florence Turner Blake (1873–1959): painter

Robin Blau (born 1946): design artist, sculptor, jeweller

Peter Michael Blayney (1920–2014): artist

Godfrey Blow (born 1948): artist, founder of the Perth Stuckists

Elise Blumann (1897–1990): German-born artist who achieved recognition as an Expressionist painter

Yvonne Boag (born 1954)

Thomas Bock (1793–1855): portraitist

Wim Boissevain (born 1927): painter

Peter Bonner (born 1964): artist

Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (c. 1935–2003): painter

David Booker (born 1954): Australian contemporary sculptor

Jeremy Boot (born 1948): Australian wildlife painter

Peter Booth (born 1940): figurative and abstract painter

Marion Borgelt (born 1954): contemporary painter and mixed-media artist

Polly Borland (born 1959): photographer

Nancy Borlase (1914–2006): New Zealand-born landscape-based abstract painter and portraitist

Paul Boston (born 1952): artist

Stella Bowen (1893–1947): painter

William Leslie Bowles (1885–1954): sculptor and medallist

Walter Armiger Bowring (1874–1931): painter and illustrator

Arthur Boyd (1920–1999): portraitist, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty

Daniel Boyd (born 1982): painter, sculptor and installation artist

David Boyd (1924–2011): artist of symbolic and historical paintings, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty

Doris Boyd (1888–1960): painter, ceramist

Emma Minnie Boyd (1858–1936): painter

Guy Boyd (1923–1988): sculptor, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty

Merric Boyd (1888–1959): ceramicist, painter, and sculptor, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty

Penleigh Boyd (1890–1923): landscape painter, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty

Robert Boynes (born 1943): contemporary painter

John Brack (1920–1999): painter, member of Antipodeans Group

Godwin Bradbeer (born 1950): figurative drawing

Barbara Brash (1925–1998)

Pat Brassington (born 1942): photographer, digital artist

Dorothy Mary Braund (1926–2013): painter and printmaker

Kate Breakey (born 1957): photographer

Angela Brennan (born 1960): painter, ceramist

Florence Broadhurst (1899–1977): designer

Horace Brodzky (1885–1969): artist

Gracius Broinowski (1837–1913): artist and ornithologist

David Bromley (born 1960): artist

Donald Brook (1927–2018): artist

Anmanari Brown (born c. 1930): painter

Nyuju Stumpy Brown (1924–2011): Wangkatjungka Indigenous Australian painter

Paul Brown (born 1947): digital artist

Andrew Browne (born 1960): figurative painter

Richard Browne (1771–1824): artist and illustrator

Lina Bryans (1909–2000): painter

Charles David Jones Bryant (1883–1937): marine artist

Ernest Buckmaster (1897–1968): painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1932

Elliott Ronald Bull (1942–1979): landscape painter and murallist

Knud Bull (1811–1889): Norwegian painter and counterfeiter transported to Australia

Norma Bull (1906–1980): painter, printmaker and etcher

Rupert Bunny (1864–1947): painter of landscapes, figure studies, and scenes drawn from mythology and literature

Ian Burn (1939–1993): conceptual artist

Peter Burns (1924–2020): architect and artist

Mirranda Burton (born 1973)

Jane Burton (born 1966): photographer

Charles Bush (1919–1989): painter

William Bustard (1894–1973): stained glass artist

Louis Buvelot (1814–1888): Swiss-born landscape painter who emigrated to Australia

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Nicholas Caire (1837–1916): photographer

Peter Callas (born 1952): video artist

H. H. Calvert (1870–1923): artist

Cressida Campbell (born 1960): printmaker

Joan Campbell (1925–1997): ceramist

Robert Campbell (1902–1972): painter and gallery director

Jane Cannan (1822–1861): painter, drawer

James Cant (1911–1982): surrealist painter and teacher

David Caon (born 1977): designer

Jack Carington Smith (1908–1972): artist and teacher from Tasmania who won the Archibald Prize in 1963

Ethel Carrick (1872–1952): painter

Tom Carrington (1843–1918): journalist, political cartoonist and illustrator

Milyika Carroll (born 1958)

James Howe Carse (c. 1819–1900): British–Australian painter who specialized in landscapes

Jeff Carter (1928–2010): photographer, filmmaker and author

Maie Casey (1892–1983): aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist

Judy Cassab (1920–2015): painter, twice won the Archibald Prize

John Cato (1926–2011): photographer and influential lecturer in photography.

Angela Cavalieri

Gino Cavicchioli (born 1957): Australian-born bust sculptor now living in Canada

Neville Henry Cayley (1854–1903): bird artist, ornithologist

Neville William Cayley (1886–1950): bird artist, author, ornithologist

Harold Cazneaux (1878–1953): pictorialist photographer

Alex Cearns: photographer

Mutlu Çerkez (1964–2005): conceptual artist

Queenie Chan (born 1980): Hong Kong-born comic artist

Nicholas Chevalier (1828–1902): Russian-born artist, illustrator in lithography and water-colour

Gunter Christmann (1936–2013): German-born Australian painter

Ernest William Christmas (1863–1918)

Betty Churcher (1931–2015): arts administrator and painter

Peter Churcher (born 1964): painter of portraits and figures in a realistic style

Marc Clark (1923–2021): sculptor and print maker

Bree Kristel Clarke: photographer

Joseph Augustine Clarke (1844–1890): artist, painter, journal illustrator and arts-teacher

Richard Clements (1951–1999): painter

James Clifford (1936–1987): painter

Romola Clifton (born 1935), Perth painter

Densey Clyne (1922–2019): Welsh-born photographer, naturalist, writer

George James Coates (1869–1930): portrait painter

John Coburn (1925–2006): painter, teacher, tapestry designer and printmaker

R. Sidney Cocks (1866–1939): artist

Margaret Coen (1909–1993): artist

Ola Cohn (1892–1964): sculptor

Colin Colahan (1897–1987): painter and sculptor, died in Italy

Bindi Cole (born 1975): photographer, video artist, installation artist

Alfred Coleman (1890–1952): painter

George Collingridge (1847–1931): writer and illustrator

Albert Collins (1883–1951): painter, teacher and actor

Amalie Sara Colquhoun (1894–1974): painter

Charles Conder (1868–1909): English-born painter of the Heidelberg School who emigrated to Australia

Daniel Connell (born 1970): artist

Kevin Connor (born 1932): artist, two-time winner of the Archibald Prize

Sylvia Convey (born 1948): painter

Michael Cook (born 1968): photographic artist

William Delafield Cook (1936–2015): artist

Justine Cooper (born 1968): animator, video artist, photographer

William T. Cooper (1934–2015): scientific painter of birds, recipient of a Gold Medal for Distinction in Natural History Art from The Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University

Yvette Coppersmith (born 1980): painter

Edith Corbet (1846–1920): landscape painter

Olive Cotton (1911–2003): photographer

Noel Counihan (1913–1986): social realist painter

Jack Courier (1915–2007)

Virginia Coventry (born 1942): photographer

Theodora Cowan (1868–1949): sculptor, painter

Steve Cox (born 1958): painter and watercolourist

Mimmo Cozzolino (born 1949): graphic designer and photo media artist

Sybil Mary Frances Craig (1901–1989): painter

Fred Cress (1938–2009): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1988

Brenda Croft (born 1964): artist, photographer, curator

Peggie Crombie (1901–1984): painter

Ray Crooke (1922–2015): portrait artist, Archibald Prize winner in 1969

Grace Crowley (1890–1979): abstract artist

Francis R. Crozier (1883–1948): war records artist

Adam Cullen (1965–2012): artist, winner of the Archibald Prize in 2000

Frank Cullen (1926–2010) landscape artist

Janet Cumbrae Stewart (1883–1960): painter

Elisabeth Cummings (born 1934): multi-award-winning artist and teacher

James Waltham Curtis (c. 1839–1901): painter, illustrator, and photographic colourist

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Ante Dabro (born 1938): Croatian-born artist/sculptor and art teacher

Johnnie Dady (born 1961): installation artist

Lindsay Daen (1923–2001): New Zealand-born sculptor and artist

John Dahlsen (born 1963): contemporary environmental artist

Richard Daintree (1832–1878): photographer

Roy Dalgarno (1910–2001): social realist artist

Anne Dangar (1885–1951): painter, potter

Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels (1936–2004): painter

Aleks Danko (born 1950): performance artist and sculptor

Alfred James Daplyn (1844–1926): painter

William Dargie (1912–2003): painter especially of portrait paintings who won the Archibald Prize eight times

Vicki Darken (1923–2014): landscape painter

Malpiya Davey

Bessie Davidson (1879–1965): painter

David Davies (1864–1939): painter

Edward Davies (1852–1927): architect and arts administrator

Olive Blanche Davies (1884–1976/7): botanical illustrator

Paul Davies (born 1979): artist

John Davis (1936–1999): sculptor

John (Francis) Davis (born 1958): artist

Lawrence Daws (born 1927): painter and printmakerofwatercolour, drawing, screenprints, etchings and monotypes

Janet Dawson (born 1935): painter

Phil Day (born 1973)

Charles Hubert de Castella (1825–1907): Swiss-Australian writer, artist and winemaker

Geoffrey de Groen (born 1938): painter of abstract art

Roy De Maistre (1894–1968): artist who explored the relationship of colour harmony to musical harmony

Destiny Deacon (1957–2024): photographer

Andrew Dearman: photographer

Wolfgang Degenhardt (1924–1993): German-born artist often of religious art

Dennis Del Favero (born 1953): artist and academic

Paul Delprat (born 1942): painter and illustrator, Principal of the Julian Ashton Art School

Linda Dement (born 1960): photographer, digital artist

Aileen Dent (1890–1978): painter

Stuart Devlin (1931–2018): artist and metalworker

William Dexter (1818–1860): English-Australian painter

Maggie Diaz (1925–2016): photographer

Robert Dickerson (1924–2015): figurative painter

Desmond Digby (1933–2015): New Zealand-born stage designer, painter and illustrator of children's books

Silvester Diggles (1817–1880): artist and musician

William Dobell (1899–1970): sculptor and painter who won the Archibald Prize three times

James Dodd (born 1977): painter, sculptor and street artist

Ken Done (born 1940): artist, especially of design work

Annie Dorrington (1866–1926): painter, flag designer

Matt Doust (1984–2013): artist, finalist in the 2011 Archibald Prize

John Dowie (1915–2008): painter, sculptor and teacher

Julie Dowling (born 1969): Badimaya Australian artist

Robert Hawker Dowling (1827–1886): colonial artist

Margaret Dredge (1928–2001)

Ada Driver (1868–1954): Australian portrait photographer who ran a studio in Brisbane in the early twentieth century

Russell Drysdale (1912–1981): painter of abstract and surrealist art

William Duke (1814–1853): Irish-born Australian artist

Karl Duldig (1902–1986): Austrian-Australian sculptor

Slawa Duldig (1901–1975): Austrian-Australian inventor, artist, interior designer and teacher

Brian Dunlop (1938–2009): still life and figurative painter

Jan Dunn (ceramicist) (1940–2002): ceramicist

Frank Dunne (1898–1937): cartoonist

Max Dupain (1911–1992): photographer

Elizabeth Durack (1915–2000): Western Australian artist and writer

Ivan Durrant (born 1947): painter, performance artist and writer

Benjamin Duterrau (1768–1851): English painter, etcher, engraver, sculptor and art lecturer who emigrated to Tasmania

Ludwik Dutkiewicz (1921–2008): Ukrainian-born naturalized Australian artist^[1]

Władysław Dutkiewicz (1918–1999): Polish-born naturalized Australian artist

Olive Dutton Green (1878–1930): painter

Geoffrey Dyer (born 1947): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2003

Moya Dyring (1909–1967): painter

Ambrose Dyson (1876–1913): illustrator and political cartoonist

Will Dyson (1880–1938): illustrator

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Augustus Earle (1793–1832): London-born travel artist who spent time painting in Australia

Stephen Eastaugh (born 1960): artist

Lindsay Edward (1919–2007): abstract artist, mosaicist and teacher

Agnes Edwards (c. 1873–1928): Aboriginal handicraft maker known for feather flowers.

Margery Edwards (1933–1989): mixed media artist, painter

Sandy Edwards (born 1948): photographer

Bonita Ely (born 1946): performance artist

Neil Emmerson (born 1956)

Esther Erlich: figurative painter, winner 1998 Moran prize and 2000 Archibald People's Choice Award

Jessie Lavington Evans (1860–1943), painter

Joyce Evans (1929–2019): photographer

Lina Eve (born 1946): figurative painter, singer/songwriter, photographer, and film maker

Miles Evergood (1871–1939): artist

Raymond Boultwood "Ray" Ewers (1917–1998): sculptor

Gladstone Eyre (1862–1933): portrait artist and landscape painter

John Eyre (1771–?): painter and engraver

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Facter, aka Fletcher Andersen: street artist/painter

David Fairbairn (born 1949): painter and printmaker

Ian Fairweather (1891–1974): painter who combined western and Asian influences in his work

Grant Featherston (1922–1995): furniture designer

Adrian Feint (1894–1971): artist, noted for his bookplate designs

Susan Fereday (born 1959): artist, photographer

Anne Ferran (born 1949): photographer

Simon Fieldhouse (born 1956): painter of architecture with whimsical characters

George Edmond Finey (1895–1987): New Zealand born artist

Gerald Fitzgerald (1873–1935): artist

Paul Desmond Fitzgerald (1922–2017): portrait painter

Maude Edith Victoria Fleay (1869–1965): painter

Emily Floyd (born 1972)

Herbert 'Bert' Flugelman (1923–2013): sculptor

Paul Foelsche (1931–1914): photographer

Ellis D Fogg aka Roger Foley (born 1942): Lumino Kinetic, Light Artist

Fiona Foley (born 1964): indigenous artist from Badtjala

George Frederick Folingsby (1828–1891): Irish born Australian painter and art educator

Nicholas Folland (born 1967): sculptor and arts educator

Sue Ford (1943–2009): photographer

Haughton Forrest (1826–1925): artist

E. Phillips Fox (1865–1915): Naturalist painter

Ivor Pengelly Francis (1906–1993): artist, art critic and teacher

Dale Frank (born 1959): contemporary artist

Graham Fransella (born 1950): figurative and abstract painter

William Frater (1890–1974), Scottish-born stained-glass designer and modernist painter

Kristian Fredrikson (1940–2005): New Zealand-born stage and costume designer

Harold Freedman (1915–1999): artist, renowned for his work in public murals

Leonard French (1928–2017): painter and stained glass artist

Zoe Freney: painter, arts writer and arts educator

Thomas Friedensen (1879–1931): English-born artist in watercolour and oils, active in Australia

Donald Friend (1915–1989): artist, writer and diarist

Frederick Frith (1819–1871): English-born painter and photographer

Douglas Fry (1872–1911): artist, especially of animal paintings

Ella Fry (1916–1997): painter

Merrick Fry (born 1950): artist

Sam Fullbrook (1922–2004): artist, won the Archibald Prize in 1974

Florence Fuller (1867–1946): painter

Albert Henry Fullwood (1863–1930): artist who worked in black and white, oils, and watercolour

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Kiley Gaffney (born 1970): performance artist, musician

Ian Gardiner (1943–2008): artist

Silvana Gardner: visual artist, writer

Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999): sculptor, primarily of found materials

Marea Gazzard (1928–2013): sculptor, ceramist

Esmond George (1888–1959): SA watercolor artist, World War II war artist and art critic

Francis Giacco (born 1955): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1993–1994

Geoff Gibbons (born 1947): printmaker and arts educator

May Gibbs (1877–1969): English Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist

Charles Web Gilbert (1867–1925): sculptor

Kevin Gilbert (1933–1993)

Jeff Gilberthorpe (born 1939): English-born artist and art teacher

Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles (1944–2010): Manyjilyjarra painter

Harry Pelling Gill (1855–1916): English-born artist and art teacher

S. T. Gill (1818–1880): English-born draughtsman, watercolour painter, and photographer

Hector Gilliland (1911–2002): watercolor landscapes

George Gittoes (born 1949): war artist using painting, drawing, photographs and video

Shaun Gladwell (born 1972): video, performance, painting and sculpture

Michaela Gleave (born 1980); conceptual installations

James Gleeson (1915–2008): surrealist artist, poet, critic, writer and curator

Allan C. Glover (1900–1984) : etcher and printmaker

Harry Glover (artist) (c. 1810–1858): English artist in South Australia

Henry H. Glover (c. 1827–1904): Australian artist, son of above

John Glover (artist) (1767–1849): English artist in Tasmania, not related

Lloyd Godman (born 1952): photographer and environmental artist

Duncan Goldfinch (1888–1960): painter

John Charles Goodchild (1898–1980): painter and art educator

Agnes Goodsir (1864–1939): portrait painter

Richard Goodwin (born 1953): artist, architect and professor of fine arts and design

Julie Gough (born 1965): artist, writer and curator

William Buelow Gould (1801–1853): English painter transportedtoVan Diemen's Land in 1826

Peter Gouldthorpe (born 1954): artist, children's picture book author and illustrator

James William Govett (1910–11 July 1998): impressionist painter

Peter Benjamin Graham (1925–1987): visual artist, printer, and art theorist

Peter Sebastian Graham (born 1970): artist, painter, printmaker and sculptor

Alma Nungarrayi Granites (1955–2017): artist^[2]

Siv Grava (born 1967): artist, winner of Doug Moran National Portrait Prize^[3]

Virginia Grayson (born 1967): visual artist, winner of the Dobell Drawing Prize

Sasha Grbich: installation artist

Denise Green (born 1946): painter

Jillian Green (born 1975); artist

Olive Dutton Green (1878–1930): artist

Rona Green (born 1972): artist

Tom Green (1913–1981): painter, printmaker and art teacher

Victor Greenhalgh (1900–1983): sculptor and teacher

Francis Greenway (1777–1837): English-born architect

Garry Greenwood (1943–2005)

Guy Grey-Smith (1916–1981): painter, printmaker and ceramicist

Robert Grieve (1924–2006)

Murray Griffin (1903–1992): print maker and painter

Mabel "May" Grigg (1885–1969): painter

Henry Gritten (c. 1818–1873): English painter

Ann Grocott (born 1938): writer and painter

Elioth Gruner (1882–1939): New Zealand-born painter, winner of the Wynne Prize seven times

Julia Gutman (born 1993) : textile Artist and winner of 2023 Archibald Prize

Rob Gutteridge (born 1954): English-born painter and arts educator

Marjorie Gwynne (1886–1958): painter

Harold Frederick Neville Gye (1888–1967): cartoonist

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Emma Hack (born 1972): photographer

Basil Hadley (1940–2006): born London, UK, arrived to Australia in 1965, printmaker and painter

Robert Hague (born 1967): New Zealand-born artist

Fiona Hall (born 1953): contemporary visual artist

Lindsay Bernard Hall (1859–1935): English-born Australian artist and art gallery director

Deborah Halpern (born 1957): sculptor, mosaic artist, ceramist

Stanislav "Stacha" Halpern (1919–1969): Polish Australian painter and sculptor

Michelle Hamer (born 1975): tapestry artist

Lyn Hancock: photographer, writer

Henry Hanke (1901–1989): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1934

Marjorie Hann (1916–2011): South Australian cartoonist, painter and art teacher

Robert Hannaford (born 1944): realist artist

Barbara Hanrahan (1939–1991): artist, printmaker and writer

Albert J. Hanson (1866–1914): landscape painter in both oil and water-colour

Nicholas Harding (born 1956): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2001

Lily Nungarrayi Yirringali Jurrah Hargraves (born 1930): painter

Pro Hart (1928–2006): father of the Outback painting movement

Cecil Hartt (1884–1930): cartoonist

Edmund Arthur Harvey (1907–1994): British-born Australian artist

Ponch Hawkes (born 1946): photographer

Elaine Haxton (1909–1999): painter, printmaker, designer and commercial artist

Louise Hearman (born 1963): figurative painter

Ivor Hele (1912–1993): war artist for the Australian War Memorial, five times Archibald Prize winner

Catherine Jenna Hendry (CJ Hendry) (born 1988): hyper-realistic, large-scale renderings using a scribbling technique

Euan Heng (born 1945): Scottish-born painter and printmaker

Lucien Henry (1850–1896): French painter in Sydney

Bill Henson (born 1955): contemporary photographic artist

Harold Herbert (1891–1945)

Petr Herel (born 1943): Czechoslovakia-born printmaker, painter

Sali Herman (1898–1993): Swiss-born war artist

Bernard Hesling (1905–1987): British-born muralist and painter

Joy Hester (1920–1960): modernist painter

Hans Heysen (1877–1968): German painter of watercolours of the bush

Nora Heysen (1911–2003): 1938 Archibald Prize winner and first women official war artist

Jacqueline Hick (1919–2004): painter

Dale Hickey (born 1937): painter and teacher

J. J. Hilder (1881–1916): watercolourist from the Heidelberg School

Charles Hill (1824–1915): engraver, painter and arts educator

Robin Hill (born 1932): artist and writer

Merris Hillard (born 1949)

Frank Hinder (1906–1992): painter, sculptor and art teacher

Margel Hinder (1906–1995): Australian-American modernist sculptor

Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack (1893–1965): German/Australian artist

Robert Hitchcock (born 1944): sculptor

Noela Hjorth (1940–2016): artist and builder of houses, known as living sculptures

Robert Hoddle (1794–1881): surveyor and artist

Christopher Hodges: artist and art gallery director

Frank Hodgkinson (1919–2001): war artist

Rayner Hoff (1894–1937): Isle of Man-born sculptor who lived and worked in Australia

Robert Hollingworth (born 1947): painter, video artist, writer, novelist; winner of 1990 Sulman Prize

Cherry Hood (born 1959): portraitist, won the 2002 Archibald Prize

Gordon Hookey (born 1961): painter, sculptor

Laurence Hope (born 1927): artist

Livingston York Yourtee "Hop" Hopkins (1846–1927): American-born cartoonist

Chris Horder (born 1976): won the Young Emerging Artist Award in the 2011 Mosman Art Prize

Marie Horseman (1911–1974): cartoonist, illustrator, fashion designer

Henry Leonardus van den Houten (1801–1879): Dutch-Australian painter, lithographer and art teacher

Valma Howell (1896–1979): painter, actress

Laurence Hotham Howie (1876–1963): South Australian sculptor, painter, and art teacher

John Howley (born 1931): painter

Frank Hurley (1885–1962): photographer, filmmaker and adventurer

Polly Hurry (1883–1963): painter

Margot Hutcheson (born 1952): British-born painter

I[edit]

Nelson Illingworth (1862–1926): English-born sculptor

Robert Ingpen (born 1936): graphic designer, illustrator, and author

Adelaide Ironside (1831–1867): painter

Pamela Irving (born 1960): ceramicist, mosaicist and writer

Jean Isherwood (1911–2006): painter

Linde Ivimey (born 1965): sculptor

J[edit]

Kenneth Jack (1924–2006): watercolour painter, and printmaker, member of RWS

Robert Jacks (1943–2014): painter, sculptor and printmaker

James R. Jackson (1882–1975): artist, primarily of Sydney harbor

Roy Jackson (1944–2013): artist

Lionel Jago (1882–1953): artist

Ann James (born 1952): children's book illustrator, graphic designer

Louis Robert James: (born 1920) abstract painter in oils

Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher James (1937–2011): ceramicist, painter and textile artist, Aboriginal artist

Gil Jamieson (1934–1992): painter of figurative art works, landscape art works, and portraits

Bob Jenyns (born 1944): humorous and figurative sculpture, painting, drawing and prints

Natalie Jeremijenko (born 1966): installation artist

Reginald Jerrold-Nathan: portraits, esp. of political women

Carol Jerrems (1949–1980): photographer

Clytie Jessop (1929–2017): artist, actress, screenwriter and director

Guo Jian (born 1962): painter, sculptor, photographer

Natasha Johns-Messenger: installation artist, photographer

George Johnson (1926–2021): painter of modernist art, especially geometric abstraction

Roger Kirk Hayes Johnson (1922–1991): architect, planner, potter, painter, sculptor, writer and educator

Anne Jolliffe (1933–2021): animator

Eric Jolliffe (1907–2001): cartoonist and illustrator on outback themes

Henry Jones (1826–1911): photographer

Joe Jonsson (1890–1963): Swedish-born cartoonist

Allan Jordan (1898–1982)

Justus Jorgensen (1893–1975): artist and architect

Ellen Jose (1951–2017): photographer, printmaker

Loui Jover (born 1967): painter, artist

Anne Judell (born 1942): artist, winner of the 2011 Dobell Prize

Robert Juniper (1929–2012): illustrator, art teacher, sculptor and printmaker

K[edit]

Louis Kahan (1905–2002): artist born in Vienna who won the Archibald Prize in 1962

Kitty Kantilla (1928–2003): painter, printmaker, sculptor

Shokufeh Kavani (born 1970): Iranian-born painter

Barry Kay (1932–1985): stage and costume designer

Hanna Kay: Israeli-born painter

Ash Keating (born 1980): artist

Jennifer Keeler-Milne (born 1961): painter, drawer

Anwen Keeling (born 1976): portrait painter

David Keeling (born 1951): artist

John Kelly (born 1965): artist

Rik Kemp (born 1939)

Roger Kemp (1907–1987): artist, especially of transcendental abstraction

Franz Kempf (born 1926)

Tjungkara Ken (born 1969): painter

Caroline Kennedy-McCracken (born 1967): musician, painter, sculptor

Rachel Khedoori (born 1964): painter, sculptor

Toba Khedoori (born 1964): mixed media painter

Patrick Kilvington (1922–1990): artist of musters, round-ups and horses in motion

Grahame King (1915–2008): master printmaker

Inge King (1915–2016): German-born sculptor

Leah King-Smith (born 1956): photographer

Barbie Kjar (born 1957): printmaker, drawer, painter

Anita Klein (born 1960): painter, printmaker

Robert Klippel (1920–2001): sculptor

Anastasia Klose (born 1978): performance artist, installation artist

Michael Kmit (1910–1981): Ukrainian painter who spent twenty-five years in Australia and died in Sydney

Sue Kneebone: artist and arts educator

Emily Kngwarreye (1910–1996): Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community

William Dunn Knox (1820–1945): painter, member of the Victorian Artists Society

Lisette Kohlhagen (1890–1969): painter

Theo Koning (born 1950): Dutch-born Western Australian painter, sculptor, printmaker and art teacher

Susan Kozma-Orlay (1913–2008): mid-century modernist designer

Derek Kreckler (born 1952): multi-media visual artist

L[edit]

Vida Lahey (1882–1968): painter

Rosemary Laing (born 1959): photographer

George Lambert (1873–1930): artist of portrait paintings and war artist

Pat Larter (1936–1996): mail artist, photographer, performance artist, painter

Richard Larter (1929–2014): painter, often identified as one of Australia's few highly recognisable pop artists

David Larwill (1956–2011): artist

Janet Laurence (born 1947): mixed media artist, installation artist

Peter Laverty (1926–2013): painter, print maker, art educator and gallery director

George Lawrence (1901–1981): painter in the impressionist style

Donald Laycock (born 1931): painter

Sam Leach (born 1973): figurative painter, winner of 2010 Archibald Prize and Wynne Prize

Alun Leach-Jones (1937–2017): painter, sculptor, printmaker

Bill Leak (1956–2017): cartoonist and painter

Percy Leason (1889–1959): cartoonist, painter

Lindy Lee (born 1954): sculptor, painter

Derwent Lees (1884–1931): landscape painter

Laurence Le Guay (1916–1990): photographer

Fred Leist (1878–1945): muralist and war artist

Kerrie Lester (1953–2016): artist

Michael Leunig (born 1945): cartoonist, poet and cultural commentator

Margo Lewers (1908–1978): interdisciplinary abstract artist

John Lewin (1770–1819): English-born artist of natural history, active in Australia

Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet (1799–1878): hotelier, water-colour artist and historian

Colonel William Light (1786–1839): British naval and army officer and a painter, the first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia

Peter Lik (born 1959): fine art photographer

Kevin Lincoln (born 1941): artist

Daryl Lindsay (1889–1976): sketcher, illustrator, and art critic

Joan Lindsay (1896–1984): author

Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961): artist specializing in etching and engraving

Norman Lindsay (1879–1969): sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist and scale modeler

Percy Lindsay (1870–1952): landscape painter, illustrator and cartoonist

Ruby Lindsay (1885–1919): illustrator, painter

Anthony Lister (born 1980): artist specializing in street art, expressionism, and pop art

W. Lister Lister (1859–1943): painter, won the Wynne Prize seven times

Norman Lloyd (1895–1983): landscape painter

Tony Lloyd (born 1970): figurative painter

Leonard Long (1911–2013): painter

Sydney Long (1871–1955): painter, etcher, and teacher

John Longstaff (1861–1941): painter, war artist and a five-time winner of the Archibald Prize

Will Longstaff (1879–1953): painter and war artist

Keith Looby (born 1940): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1984

Loongkoonan (c. 1910–2018): painter, Aboriginal elder

Steve Lopes (born 1971): figurative painter

Josh Lord (born 1972): artist specializing in acrylic house paint

Gretta Louw (born 1981): interdisciplinary artist working across digital media, installation, drawing, and textiles

Fred Lowen ((1919–2005)): designer

Fiona Lowry (born 1974): painter

Joseph Lycett (c. 1774–1827): English-born portrait and miniature painter, active in Australia

Elwyn (Jack) Lynn (1917–1997): artist, author, art critic and curator

M[edit]

Andrew MacCormac (1826–1918): portrait painter

Stewart Angus MacFarlane (born 1953): figurative painter

Norman Macgeorge (1872–1952): artist and art critic

William Priestly MacIntosh (1857–1930): sculptor

Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal (1863–1931): sculptor and medallist

Chips Mackinolty (born 1954): artist printmaking and journalist

Euan MacLeod (born 1956): New Zealand artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1999

William Macleod (1850–1929): artist and a partner in The Bulletin

Matthew James MacNally (1873–1943): watercolourist

Mary Macqueen (1912–1994): printmaker, mixed media artist

Bea Maddock (1934–2016): artist combining printing with encaustic painting and installation art

Guy Maestri (born 1974): painter, winner of 2009 Archibald Prize

Ma Mahood (1901–1989): painter, ceramist, printmaker

Jeffrey Makin (born 1943): artist, art critic, and Director of Port Jackson Press Australia

David Malangi (1927–1999): bark painter, printmaker, carver, designer

Henri Mallard (1884–1967): photographer

Gillian Mann (1939–2007): printmaker

Diane Mantzaris (born 1962): digital artist, printmaker

Wakuthi Marawili (1921-2005): painter, bark painter

Paul Margocsy (born 1945): watercolourist

Banduk Marika (1954–2021): indigenous Australian artist and printmaker

Wandjuk Marika (1927–1987): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist, actor, composer and land rights activist

Stella Marks (1887–1985): best known as a portrait miniaturist

Claude Marquet (1869–1920): political cartoonist

Conrad Martens (1801–1878): English-born landscape artist active in Australia

Monte Masi (born 1983): performance-based video artist

John Mather (1848–1916): Scottish-Australian plein-air painter and etcher

John Baxter Mather (1853–1940): Scottish-Australian journalist, newspaper proprietor, landscape painter and art critic

John Mawurndjul (born 1952): indigenous artist in a traditional painting technique rarrk

William James Maxwell (ca.1843–1903): Scottish-born sculptor

Ursula Mayer (born 1970): multimedia artist based in London

Daphne Mayo (1895–1982): sculptor

Kathleen McArthur (1915–2001): botanical illustrator, environmentalist, naturalist

Herbert McClintock (1906–1985): social realist artist

Francis McComas (1875–1938): Australian-born artist who spent most of his adult life in California

Georgiana McCrae (1804–1890): painter, diarist

Frederick McCubbin (1855–1917): painter of the Heidelberg School

Louis McCubbin (1890–1952): war artist, landscape painter and gallery director

Alan McLeod McCulloch (1907–1992): art historian and gallery director, cartoonist, and painter

Francine McDougall: filmmaker, photographer

Malcolm McGookin (born 1956): cartoonist, writer, painter, musician

Raymond McGrath (1903–1977): architect, illustrator, printmaker and interior designer

William Beckwith McInnes (1889–1939): portrait painter, winner of the Archibald Prize seven times

Arthur McIntyre (1945–2003): artist and art critic

Alexander McKenzie (born 1971): painter, a six times finalist of the Archibald Prize

Queenie McKenzie (1930–1998): painter

Tommy McRae (1835–1901): artist

Clement Meadmore (1929–2005): Australian-American sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures

Penny Meagher (1935–1995): painter

Lilian Marguerite Medland (1880–1955): illustrator, painter

Charles Meere (1890–1961): English-Australian artist

Dora Meeson (1869–1955): painter

Annemieke Mein (born 1944): Dutch-born textile artist

Max Meldrum (1875–1955): painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940

Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855–1938): Australian-born artist, author, printmaker and illustrator

Mary Cockburn Mercer (1882–1963): painter

Louisa Anne Meredith (1812–1895): Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator, also known as Louisa Anne Twamley

Bertha Merfield (1869–1921): painter and muralist

Vladas Meskenas (1916–2020): Sydney painter, born in Lithuania

Bill Meyer (born 1942): artist who uses photography, film and music in his work

mez (Mary-Anne Breeze): Australian-based Internet artist

Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902–1985): Polish-born photographer

Rodney Armour "Rod" Milgate (1934–2014): painter and playwright

David Miller (born c.1950): painter

Lewis Miller (born 1959): painter and visual artist, known for his portraits and figurative works, winner of 1998 Archibald Prize

Peter Milne (born 1960): photographer and visual artist, known for documenting the Melbourne punk and comedy scenes in the 1970s and 80s

Benjamin Edwin Minns (1863–1937): watercolourist

Harold "Hal" Missingham (1906–1994): Australian artist, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1945 to 1971, and president of the Australian Watercolour Institute from 1952 to 1955

Jan Mitchell (1940–2008): painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker

Robert Boyed Mitchell (1919–2002): abstract expressionist artist

Joanne Mitchelson (born 1971): painter

Tracey Moffat (born 1960): artist using primarily photography and video

Ernest Edward Moffitt (1871–1899): artist

George Molnar (1910–1998): Hungarian-Australian cartoonist

Jon Molvig (1923–1970): expressionist artist

Reg Mombassa (born 1951): New Zealand-born artist and musician

Milton Moon (1926–2019): potter, teacher and author

Alan Moore (1914–2015): war artist

David Moore (1927–2003): photographer and photojournalist.

May and Mina Moore (1881–1931, 1882–1957): photographers

Mirka Mora (1928–2018): French-born painter, sculptor, mosaic artist

Harriet Morgan (1830–1907): natural history illustrator

Sally Morgan (born 1951): Aboriginal author, scriptwriter and contemporary Indigenous Australian artist

George Pitt Morison (1861–1946): painter and engraver

Ethel Jackson Morris (1891–1985): illustrator

Joan Morrison (1911–1969), cartoonist and book illustrator

Christine Morrow (born 1971): British-born visual artist

Gareth Morse (1932–2023): Welsh-born landscape painter, art critic and educator

Grant Mudford (born 1944): photographer

Sally M. Nangala Mulda (born 1957): artist

Patricia Mullins (born 1952): children's book illustrator

Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (c.1936–2002): contemporary artist

Evonne Munuyngu, (born 1960): weaver

Arthur Murch (1902–1989): painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1949

Les Murdoch (born 1957), pioneer of Aboriginal Op art Surrealism^[4]

Wendy Murray (artist) (born 1974): print maker, painter, arts educator

Vali Myers (1930–2003): artist who specialized in fine pen and ink drawings

Patricia Moran (1944–2017): painter

Bruce Munro (born 1959): dual nationality (Australian/Great Britain), primary medium light

Tanya Myshkin (born 1961): printmaker

N[edit]

Bardayal 'Lofty' Nadjamerrek (1926–2009): painter

Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri (1926–1998): painter

Albert Namatjira (1902–1959): Indigenous Australian artist

Rosella Namok (born 1979): Indigenous Australian artist

Eubena Nampitjin (1921–2013): painter, teacher

Narputta Nangala (1933–2010)

Frank Arthur Nankivell (1869–1959): artist and political cartoonist

Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri (c. 1955–2008): painter

Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri (c. 1954–2011): painter

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (born c. 1948): painter

Tjunkiya Napaltjarri (c. 1927–2009): painter

Wintjiya Napaltjarri (c. 1923–1934–2014): painter

Makinti Napanangka (c. 1930–2011): indigenous Australian artist

Dorothy Napangardi (early 1950s–2013): painter

Lily Kelly Napangardi (born c. 1948): painter

Yalti Napangati (born c. 1970): painter

Yuhana Nashmi: Iraqi-Australian ceramicist, sculptor, painter

Simeon Nelson (born 1964): sculptor and transdisciplinary artist

Girolamo Nerli (1860–1926)

Norie Neumark: American-born sound artist

Albert Ernest Newbury (1891–1941): landscape and portrait painter

Ann Newmarch (born 1945): painter, printmaker, sculptor

Marc Newson (born 1963): designer

Helmut Newton (1920–2004): German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women

June Newton (1923–2021): photographer, actress

Paul Newton (born 1961): portrait artist who has twice won the Archibald Prize

Mavis Ngallametta (1944–2019)

Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884–1961): painter

Peter Nicholson (born 1946): political cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor

Deborah Niland (born 1950)

Kilmeny Niland (1950–2009)

Sandro Nocentini (born 1966): painter

Sidney Nolan (1917–1992): painter and printmaker

Elizabeth May Norriss, later Bess Norriss Tait (1878–1939): artist

James Northfield (1887–1973): graphic artist

Rosaleen Norton (1917–1979): painter, occultist

Naata Nungurrayi (born 1932): artist

Charles Nuttall (1872–1934): artist noted for his illustrations

Lena Nyadbi (born c. 1936): painter, installation artist

O[edit]

Carla O'Brien: installation artist

Kathleen O'Brien (1914–1991): comic artist, illustrator, fashion artist

Kathleen O'Connor (1876–1968): New Zealand-born painter

Gabby O'Connor: New Zealand-based installation artist (born 1974)

Peter O'Doherty (born 1958): musician and artist specializing in still life and suburbia

Edward Officer (1871–1921): painter, Australian Art Association inaugural president

John Armstrong Ogburn (1925–2010): painter.

Pixie O'Harris (1903–1991): Welsh-born illustrator, cartoonist, painter, author

Dorothea "Dora" Adela Ohlfsen-Bagge (1869–1948): pianist, painter, sculptor, spy and particularly a medallist

Bronwyn Oliver (1959–2006): sculptor

Margaret Olley (1923–2011): painter specializing in still life

Bernard Ollis (born 1951): contemporary painter

John Olsen (1928–2023): landscape painter who won the Archibald Prize in 2005

Lin Onus (1948–1996): Scottish–Koori Aboriginal artist

Rosemary Opala (1923–2008): illustrator, writer, nurse

Desiderius Orban (1884–1986): Hungarian-Australian painter, printmaker and teacher

Christopher Orchard (born 1950): artist and arts educator

Mandy Ord (born 1974): comic artist

Raquel Ormella (born 1969): multimedia artist

George Cross Thomas Orr (1882–1933): watercolourist

Jill Orr (born 1952): performance artist, photographer, installation artist

Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski (1922–1994): Polish-Australian artist best known for his ground-breaking work in chromasonics, laser kinetics and 'sound and image' productions

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888–1960): children's book illustrator

Robert Owen (born 1937): artist and curator

P[edit]

Josonia Palaitis: artist

Wendy Paramor (1938–1975): artist

Trent Parke (born 1971): photographer

Roy Parkinson (1901–1945): watercolour artist

Lenton Parr (1924–2003): sculptor and teacher

Mike Parr (born 1945): performance artist and printmaker

Peter Parsons (ceramic artist) (1951–1993): ceramic artist

John Passmore (1904–1984): abstract expressionist painter

Klytie Pate (1912–2010): studio potter

John Ford Paterson (1851–1912): Scottish-born Australian artist

Ambrose McCarthy Patterson (1877–1966): painter and printmaker

Frances Wildt Pavlu (died 2016): art jeweller

John Peart (1945–2013)

Tom Peerless (1858–1896): artist

John Perceval (1923–2000): artist of drawings, paintings, and ceramics

Stieg Persson (born 1959): contemporary painter

Bruce Petty (1929–2023): political satirist and cartoonist

Gloria Petyarre (born 1946): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist

Jeanna Petyarre (born 1950): painter

Kathleen Petyarre (1940–2018): painter

Nancy Petyarre (1938–2009): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist

Debra Phillips (born 1958): photographer, sculptor

Patricia Piccinini (born 1965): mixed-media artist

Shane Pickett (1957–2010): Nyoongar artist

William Edwin Pidgeon (1909–1981): painter who won the Archibald Prize three times

Julianne Pierce: new media artist, curator, art critic

Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (1935–2013), ceramist

W. C. Piguenit (1836–1914): landscape painter

Anne Pincus (born 1961): painter, sculptor

Carl Plate (1909–1977): painter, collage artist, sculptor, printmaker

Evert Ploeg (born 1963): portrait painter

Terrance Plowright (born 1949): contemporary and figurative sculptor

Leif Podhajsky (born ?): graphic designer

Axel Poignant (1906–1986): photographer

Leon Pole (1871–1951): artist associated with the Heidelberg School

Rodney Pople (born 1952): artist

Pietro Porcelli (1872–1943): Italian-born sculptor

Port Jackson Painter (active 1788–1790s): plant and animal watercolour artist(s) (identity unknown)

Arthur Ted Powell (born 1947): landscape painter and printmaker

Harold Septimus Power (1877–1951): artist

Dr John Joseph Wardell Power (1881–1943): Modernist artist

Cedar Prest (born 1940): stained glass artist

Margaret Preston (1875–1963): modernist painter and printmaker

Reg Preston (1917–2000): potter

Thea Proctor (1879–1966): portrait painter and printmaker

Geoffrey Proud (born 1946): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1990

John Skinner Prout (1805–1876): English-born painter of lithographs, watercolours and oils

Oswald Pryor (1881–1971): cartoonist

Clifton Pugh (1924–1990): painter of landscapes and portraiture

Shirley Purdie (born 1948): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist

Peter Purves Smith (1912–1949): painter

Minnie Pwerle (1910–2006): contemporary Indigenous Australian artist

Q[edit]

Ben Quilty (born 1973): portrait painter and war artist, winner of 2011 Archibald Prize

James Peter Quinn (1869–1951): portrait painter

R[edit]

Melinda Rackham (born 1959): sculptor and Internet artist

John Radecki (1865–1955): stained glass artist working in Australia

Isobel "Iso" Rae (1860–1940): impressionist painter

John Rae (1813–1900): administrator, painter and author

Hugh Ramsay (1877–1906): artist

Richard John Randall (1869–1906): artist

David Rankin (born 1946): New York-based painter

Stanislav Rapotec AM (1913–1997): artist

Henry Rayner (1902–1957): Australian artist known for his drypoint etchings

Norma Redpath OBE (1928–2013): painter and sculptor

Richard Read Sr. (ca. 1765 – ca. 1829): British-born artist who was sent to Australia as a convict.

David Jay Reed (born 1950): artist, photographer, graphic designer

Lloyd Rees (1895–1998): landscape painter

Alison Baily Rehfisch (1900–1974): painter

Virgil Reilly (1892–1974): cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator

Gladys Reynell (1881–1956): one of South Australia's earliest potters

Jon Rhodes (born 1947): photographer

Geoffrey Ricardo (born 1964): artist, printmaker and sculptor

Charles Douglas Richardson (1853–1932): Victorian sculptor and painter

William Ricketts (1898–1993): potter and sculptor of the arts and crafts movement

John Rigby (1922–2012): painter of tropical and bush landscapes, genre works and portraits

Paul Crispin Rigby AM (1924–2006): cartoonist

Michael Riley (1960–2004): photographer, documentary filmmaker

Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (1936–2002): painter

Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884–1961): conservative post-impressionist painter

Douglas Roberts (1919–1976): painter and art critic

Ian Roberts (born 1952): bird and native vegetation painter

Tom Roberts (1856–1931): artist and a member of the Heidelberg School

Lynne Roberts-Goodwin (born 1954): photographer, video and installation artist

Freda Rhoda Robertshaw (1916–1997): artist

Ronald Charles Robertson-Swann OAM (born 1941): sculptor

Julia Robinson (born 1981): sculptor

William Robinson (born 1936): painter and lithographer

Charles Rodius (1802–1860): German-born artist, printmaker and architect

Florence Aline Rodway (1881–1971): artist best known for her portraits

Lisa Roet (born 1967): artist

Andrew Rogers (born 1947): sculptor and land artist

Robert Rooney (1937–2017): artist and art critic

Herbert Rose (1890–1937): painter and etcher

Daisy Mary Rossi (1879–1974): artist, interior designer and writer

Dick Roughsey (1920–1985): painter

Ellis Rowan (1847–1922): naturalist and illustrator

Julie Rrap (born 1950): contemporary artist

Dattilo Rubbo (1870–1955): Italian-born artist and art teacher

Craig Ruddy (born 1968): painter of portraits, nudes and self studies, winner of 2004 Archibald Prize

James Newton Russell AM MBE (1909–2001): cartoonist

John Peter Russell (1858–1930): impressionist painter

Robert Russell (1808–1900): architect and surveyor

S[edit]

Jenny Sages (born 1933): Chinese-born painter, freelance writer, and illustrator

Loudon Sainthill (1918–1969): artist and stage and costume designer

William Arthur Salmon (1928–2018): painter

Tom Samek (1950–2021): Czech-born muralist

Gareth Sansom (born 1939): artist, painter, printmaker and collagist

Hugh Sawrey (1919–1999): landscape artist and stockman

Jan Hendrik Scheltema (1861–1941): Dutch-born landscape and livestock painter.

Jörg Schmeisser (1942–2012): painter, printmaker and art teacher

Joyce Scott (born 1942): drawing, oil painting and ceramics

Montague Scott (1835–1909): artist

Ken Searle (born 1951): artist

Brian Seidel (1928–2019): painter and teacher

Udo Sellbach (1927–2006): artist, printmaker and art teacher

Gert Sellheim (1901–1970): German-Australian artist who won the Sulman Prize in 1939

Jan Senbergs (born as Jānis Šēnbergs in Latvia, 1939): artist and printmaker

Dora Serle (1875–1968): painter

Peter Serwan (born 1962): artist and teacher

Rebecca Shanahan: artist

Martin Sharp (1942–2013): artist, underground cartoonist, songwriter and filmmaker

Peter Sharp (born 1964): specialises in drawing

Raelene Sharp (born 1957): portrait painter Archibald Prize Packing Room Winner 2012

Wendy Sharpe (born 1960): portraitist and war artist

Gary Shead (born 1942): artist and filmmaker who won the Archibald Prize in 1992–1993

Ben Shearer (born 1941): artist who specialises in watercolour painting of the Outback

Shen Jiawei (born 1948): Chinese Australian painter and winner of the 2006 Sir John Sulman Prize

Kathleen Shillam AM (1916–2002): English-born sculptor

Leonard George Shillam AM (1915–2005): sculptor

Heather Shimmen (born 1957): artist, printmaker

John Shirlow (1869–1936): artist

Athol Shmith (1914–1990): studio portrait and fashion photographer and photography educator

Ivy Shore (1915–1999): painter, winner of Portia Geach Memorial Award

Andrew Sibley (1933–2015): English-born artist

Allan F. Sierp (1905–1982): artist and author

Wolfgang Sievers (1913–2007): photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography

Achille Simonetti (1838–1900): Italian-born sculptor

Norah Simpson (1895–1974): modernist painter

Darren Siwes (born 1968): photographer, painter

Rein Slagmolen (1916–1999): Dutch-Australian artist and sculptor

Matthew Sleeth (born 1972:) visual artist and filmmaker

Jeffrey Smart (1921–2013): painter, known for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes

Sally Smart (born 1960): known for her large-scale assemblage installations that address gender and identity politics

Tony Smibert (born 1949): painter who specialises in watercolour painting

Bernard Smith (1916–2011): art historian, art critic and academic

Eric Smith (1919–2017): portraitist

Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984): artist and pioneer of modernist painting

Joshua Smith (1905–1995): artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1944

Mervyn Ashmore Smith OAM (1904–1994): artist

Douglas Snelling (1916–1985): architect and furniture designer

Lance Solomon (1913–1989): painter, noted for his landscapes

David Henry Souter (1862–1935): artist and journalist

Clara Southern (1861–1940): painter

Percy Spence (1868–1933): artist

John Spooner (born 1946): journalist and illustrator

Ethel Spowers (1890–1947): artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art

William Stanford (1839–1880): sculptor

Stelarc (born 1946): performance artist

Ronald Steuart (1898–1988): watercolourist

Paddy Japaljarri Stewart (1935–2013): indigenous artist from Mungapunju

Constance Stokes (1906–1991): figurative painter

Loribelle Spirovski (born 1990): Filipino-born visual artist

Kunmanara Stewart (c.1935-2012): indigenous Pitjantjatjara artist

Margaret Stones AM MBE (1920–2018): botanical illustrator

Tim Storrier (born 1949): Australian landscape painter, winner of 2012 Archibald Prize

David Edgar Strachan (1919–1970): painter, printmaker and teacher

George Strafford (c.1820–1896): artist and engraver

Arthur Streeton (1867–1943): landscape painter

Mark Strizic (1928–2012): Croatian-Australian photographer and artist

William Strutt (1825–1915): English-born artist of figurative and history paintings

Douglas Stubbs (1927–2008): artist

Reginald Sturgess (1892–1932): artist

Charles Summers (1825–1878): English-born sculptor, creator of the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills

Jane Sutherland (1853–1928): landscape painter

Ruth Sutherland (1884–1948): Australian painter and art critic

Chern’ee Sutton (born 1996): Australian painter, known for her colourful 3D painting style.

Roger Swainston (born 1960): painter, naturalist and zoologist specialising in works of the underwater world

Ricky Swallow (born 1974): sculptor

Estelle Mary (Jo) Sweatman (1872–1956): painter

Eveline Syme (1888–1961): artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art

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Laurens Tan (born 1950): multidisciplinary artist

Ronald Peter Tandberg (1943–2018): illustrator and political cartoonist

Les Tanner (1927–2001): cartoonist and journalist

Howard Taylor AM (1918–2001): painter, potter, graphic artist and teacher of art

Violet Teague (1872–1951): artist, noted for her painting and printmaking

Henri Tebbitt (1854–1927): English-Australian painter

Kathy Temin (born 1968): artist who uses synthetic fur to create sculptural objects and installations

Arlene Textaqueen (born 1975): works on paper with felt-tip marker pens

Eric Thake (1904–1982): surrealist artist

Harold Thomas (born 1947): artist and activist

Margaret Thomas (1842–1929): English-born Australian travel writer, poet and artist

Rover Thomas (c.1926–1998): one of two Aboriginal Australians to exhibit in the Venice Biennale in 1990, alongside Trevor Nickolls

Stu Thomas (born 1967): Visual artist, musician.

Christian Thompson (born 1978): artist

Nigel Thomson (1945–1999): artist of satirical paintings of society

Lesbia Thorpe (1919–2009); printmaker

Mark Threadgold (born 1977): painter

Imants Tillers (born 1950): visual art artist, curator and writer

Freddie Timms (1946–2017): painter

Richard Kelly Tipping (born 1949): poet and artist working between image and language

Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa (1925–1989): painter

Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932–2002): painter, Aboriginal artist

Whiskey Tjukangku (born c. 1939): artist

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula (c.1938/1942–2001)

Aida Tomescu (born 1955): contemporary artist

Mary Tonkin (born 1973): artist, winner of the 2002 Dobell Prize

Jessie Constance Alicia Traill (1881–1967): print maker

Vernon Treweeke (1939–2015): psychedelic artist

Percy Trezise AM (1923–2005): pilot, painter, explorer and writer

J. W. Tristram (1870–1938): artist

Zoja Trofimiuk (born 1952): printmaker and sculptor, especially cast glass

Percy Trompf (1902–1964): graphic artist

Marie Tuck (1866–1947): artist and art educator

Ruth Tuck OAM (1914–2008): modernist painter

Albert Tucker (1914–1999): Expressionist painter

Tudor St George Tucker (1862–1906): painter

Tony Tuckson (1921–1973): war-time pilot turned abstract expressionist painter

Peter Tully (1947–1992): jeweller, designer and artistic director

James Alfred Turner (1850–1908): painter

Isabel May Tweddle (1875–1945): painter

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Tony Underhill (1923–1977)

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Hossein Valamanesh (born 1949: Iranian-born contemporary artist

May Vale (1862–1945): painter

Henri Benedictus van Raalte (1881–1929): known as H. van Raalte, English-born artist and printmaker

Danila Vassilieff (1897–1958): Russian-born painter and sculptor

John Vickery (1906–1983): artist

Julie Elizabeth Agnes Vieusseux (1820–1878): painter and educator

Alfred James Vincent (1874–1915): cartoonist

Eugene von Guerard (1811–1901): Austrian-born painter of landscapes active in Australia

Savanhdary Vongpoothorn (born 1971): Laotian-born Australian painter

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Robert Wade (1930–2024): watercolour artist

David Wadelton (born 1955): artist

Thomas Wainewright (1794–1847): English author, serial killer, forger and painter transported to Van Dieman's Land

Roland Wakelin (1887–1971): New Zealand-born painter and teacher

Megan Walch (born 1967): painter

Anna Frances Walker (1830–1913) watercolorist, botanical illustrator

John Walker (born 1939): English-born painter and printmaker producing native Oceanic art

Rose A. Walker (1879–1942): painter and miniaturist

Stephen Walker (1927–2014): sculptor

Robin Wallace-Crabbe (born 1938): curator, literary reviewer, cartoonist, illustrator, book designer, publisher and a commenter on art

Mervyn Napier Waller CMG OBE (1893–1972): muralist, mosaicist and painter in stained glass and other media

Wes Walters (1928–2014): realist portrait painter and abstract artist

Ania Walwicz (1951–2020): poet, prose writer, and visual artist

Billy Wara (1920–2008): sculptor, woodworker

Frederick Charles Ward (1900–1990): designer

Guy Warren (1921–2024): painter who won the Archibald Prize in 1985

Sera Waters (born 1979): textile artist, arts writer and arts educator

Thomas Watling (1762–1814): painter and illustrator

Jennifer Watson (born 1951): artist known for her paintings that combine text and images

Judy Watson (born 1959): artist

Judy Napangardi Watson (1921–2004): painter

Tommy Watson (c.1935–2017): painter

James Laurence Watts (1849–1925): sculptor

Betty Temple Watts (1901–1992): scientific illustrator

Peter Wegner (born 1953): New Zealand born figurative painter, sculptor, and draughtsman

Barbara Weir (born 1945): painter

William Westall (1781–1850): English-born landscape and botanical artist

Bradd Westmoreland (born 1975): painter

Bryan Westwood (1930–2000): portrait artist who won the Archibald Prize twice

Charles Wheeler (1881–1977): painter who won the Archibald Prize in 1933

George Whinnen (1891–1950): painter

Kaylene Whiskey: artist

Anthony White (born 1976): painter

Cecil John White (1900–1986): New Zealand born cartoonist, known under the pen name Unk White

James White (1861–1918): sculptor, winner of the Wynne Prize in 1902

Susan Dorothea White (born 1941): painter, sculptor, printmaker, author

Brett Whiteley (1939–1992): prolific, multi-award-winning painter

James V Wigley (1918–1999): painter of Aboriginal camp scenes and desert landscapes

Leslie Wilkie (1878–1935): artist, curator, and member of Victorian Artists Society

Fred Williams (1927–1982): painter and printmaker

Jan Williamson: award-winning portraitist

Marcus Wills (born 1972): painter, winner of 2006 Archibald Prize

Dora Wilson (1883–1946): British-born artist, best known for etchings and street scenes

Eric Wilson (1911–1946): painter

Shaun Wilson (born 1972): artist, film maker, academic, teacher, and curator

William Hardy Wilson (1881–1955): architect, artist and author

Henry Winkles (1800–1860)

Walter Withers (1854–1914): landscape artist and a member of the Heidelberg Schoolofimpressionists

Noel Wood (1912–2001): painter

Rex Wood (1906–1970): artist who lived for many years in Portugal

Robert Raymond (Bob) Woodward AM (1923–2010): architect and fountain designer

John Christie Wright (1889–1917): sculptor

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Ah Xian (born 1960): Chinese born artist

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Paji Honeychild Yankarr (c.1912–2004): painter

Yirawala (c.1897–1976): painter

John Zerunge Young (born 1956): Hong Kong-born Australian artist

Blamire Young (1862–1935): artist

William Young (1875–1944): artist

Gulumbu Yunupingu (c.1943–2012): Australian Aboriginal artist and women's leader from the Yolngu people

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Anne Zahalka (born 1957): photographer

Michael Zavros (born 1974): artist

Victor Zelman (1877–1960): painter and etcher

Hongbin Zhao (born 1952): Shanghai born artist

Teisutis 'Joe' Zikaras (1922–1991): Lithuanian-born sculptor

Salvatore Zofrea (born 1946): Italian-born painter of literary, historical and religious sources

Reinis Zusters (1919–1999) artist and architect

References[edit]

^ "Ludwik Dutkiewicz b. 2 February 1921". daao.org.au. Design & Art Australia Online. Retrieved 22 April 2022.

^ Scott Mitchell (2016). ""To the city for dancing": The Women Artists collection and the birth of commercial art practice at Yuendumu". A Cultural Cacophony: Museum Perspectives and Projects (PDF). Museums Galleries Australia (NSW). pp. 86–102. ISBN 9781741384499. Retrieved 31 March 2022.

^ "Tweed Art Gallery: Items – Painting, Self Portrait". aumuseums.com. Australian Museums and Galleries. 12 November 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2022.

^ "Les Murdoch". Arts Mid North Coast. Retrieved 21 July 2014.

External links[edit]

Design & Art Australia Online

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