List of Australian artists

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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 Abraham (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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Ian Armstrong (1923–2005): painter and printmaker
  • 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
  • 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)(born 1947): 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 (born 1971): 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Arthur Boyd (1920–1999): portraitist, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty
  • 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 1942): contemporary painter
  • John Brack (1920–1999): painter, member of Antipodeans Group
  • Godwin Bradbeer (born 1950): figurative drawing
  • Pat Brassington (born 1942): photographer, digital artist
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 (born 1924): architect and artist
  • Jane Burton (born 1966): photographer
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 1974): Hong Kong-born comic artist
  • Deanne Cheuk: illustrator, designer, art director
  • 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 (born 1923): 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
  • 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
  • Virginia Coventry (born 1940): photographer
  • Theodora Cowan (1868–1949): sculptor, painter
  • Steve Cox (born 1958): painter and watercolourist
  • 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
  • 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 printmaker of watercolour, drawing, screenprints, etchings and monotypes
  • Janet Dawson (born 1935): painter
  • 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 (born 1957): 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
  • Russell Drysdale (1912–1981): painter of abstract and surrealist art
  • William Duke (1814–1853): Irish-born Australian artist
  • Slawa Duldig (1901–1975): inventor, artist, interior designer and teacher
  • Brian Dunlop (1938–2009): still life and figurative painter
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • George Gittoes (born 1949): war artist using painting, drawing, photographs and video
  • Shaun Gladwell (born 1972): video, performance, painting and sculpture
  • James Gleeson (1915–2008): surrealist artist, poet, critic, writer and curator
  • Henry Heath "Harry" Glover (c. 1810–1858): English-born artist
  • Henry Heath Glover Jr. (ca.1827–1904): artist and lithographer
  • John Glover (1767–1849): English/colonial 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 transported to Van 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
  • 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
  • Guy Grey-Smith (1916–1981): painter, printmaker and ceramicist
  • Vaughan 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
  • Rob Gutteridge (born 1954): English-born painter and arts educator
  • 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
  • Bill Henson (born 1955): contemporary photographic artist
  • Petr Herel (born 1943): Czechoslovakia-born printmaker, painter
  • Sali Herman (1898–1993): Swiss-born war artists 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): artist, winner of the 1938 Archibald Prize for portraiture and the first women appointed as an official war artist
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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  • Nelson Illingworth (1862–1926): English-born sculptor
  • Kylie InGold (born 1962): painter of the fairy and fantasy genre
  • 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

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 (born 1926): 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
  • 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

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K[]

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

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L[]

  • 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
  • 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

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M[]

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Christine Morrow (born 1971): British-born visual artist
  • 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
  • Arthur Murch (1902–1989): painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1949
  • Les Murdoch (born 1957), pioneer of Aboriginal Op art Surrealism[1]
  • 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
  • Thomas (Tom) McAuly (born 1946): painter, depiction of bush characters, bird life, and the outback. Commissioned by Bob Hawke in 1990 to paint a series on Australian sport..

N[]

  • 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 (born ca 1923 to 1934): 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
  • 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
  • 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

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O[]

  • 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 (born 1928): 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
  • 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

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P[]

  • 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
  • Allyson Parsons (born 1965): Australian landscape artist
  • 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 (born 1929): 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
  • 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

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Q[]

  • Ben Quilty (born 1973): portrait painter and war artist, winner of 2011 Archibald Prize
  • James Peter Quinn (1869–1951): portrait painter

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  • 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): was a British-born artist who was sent to Australia as a convict.
  • Lloyd Rees (1895–1998): landscape painter
  • Alison Baily Rehfisch (1900–1974): painter
  • Virgil Reilly (1892–1974): cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator
  • Susan Respinger (born 1982): Perth based artist
  • 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
  • Donna Marie Robinson: digital artist
  • 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

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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U[]

  • Tony Underhill (1923–1977)

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V[]

  • 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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W[]

  • Robert Wade (born 1930): 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
  • Guy Warren (born 1921): 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 School of impressionists
  • 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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X[]

  • Ah Xian (born 1960): Chinese born artist

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Y[]

  • 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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Z[]

  • 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

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See also[]

  • Art of Australia
  • Australian painter stubs
Schools

References[]

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

External links[]

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