20th-century Australian artists

The list 20th-century Australian artists includes Annita van Iersel, Paul Cox, Mirka Mora, Vexta and Martin Sharp. The list consists of 421 members and 6 sublists.

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20th-century Australian painters
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20th-century Australian architects
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20th-century Australian sculptors
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20th-century Australian photographers
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20th-century Australian women artists
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20th-century Australian male artists
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Annita van Iersel

Australian artist

Overview: Anna Johanna Maria "Annita" van Iersel (born 5 October 1948), known as Annita Keating from 1975 to 1998, is a Dutch-born Australian artist and former wife of Paul Keating, former Prime Minister of Australia ...

Date of birth: 5 October 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

Artists from Sydney 76T
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Paul Cox

Australian film director

Overview: Paulus Henrique Benedictus Cox (16 April 1940 – 18 June 2016) as Paul Cox, was a Dutch-Australian filmmaker, who has been recognized as "Australia's most prolific film auteur".

Date of birth: 16 April 1940

Date of death: 19 June 2016

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Liver transplant recipients 64T

2016 deaths 9,448T

Australian art teachers 50T
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Bronwyn Bancroft

Australian artist

Overview: Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958) is an Australian artist, notable for being amongst the first Australian fashion designers invited to show her work in Paris. Born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, and trained ...

Date of birth: 1958

Age: 67

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

Artists from New South Wales 13T
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Mirka Mora

Australian artist (1928–2018)

Overview: Mirka Madeleine Mora (18 March 1928 – 27 August 2018) was a French-born Australian visual artist and cultural figure who contributed significantly to the development of contemporary art in Australia. Her ...

Date of birth: 18 March 1928

Date of death: 27 August 2018

Age: 90 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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2018 deaths 9,212T

20th-century French women artists 232T

Mora family 4T
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Vexta

Australian, Artist

Overview: Vexta is an Australian stencil artist and street artist from Melbourne, Victoria.

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

Artists from Sydney 76T
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Martin Sharp

Australian artist

Overview: Martin Ritchie Sharp AM (21 January 1942 – 1 December 2013) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker.

Date of birth: 21 January 1942

Date of death: 1 December 2013

Age: 71 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Male

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People educated at Cranbrook School, Sydney 50T

20th-century Australian musicians 226T

2013 deaths 9,323T
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Dorrit Black

Australian painter

Overview: Dorothea Foster Black (23 December 1891 – 13 September 1951) was an Australian painter and printmaker of the Modernist school, known for being a pioneer of Modernism in Australia. In 1951, at the ...

Date of birth: 23 December 1891

Date of death: 13 September 1951

Age: 59 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

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Road incident deaths in South Australia 22T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

Julian Ashton Art School alumni 60T
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Steve Cox (artist)

Australian artist

Overview: Steven Martin Cox (born 1958) is an English Australian artist and writer, known for his homoerotic images; stream of consciousness landscapes and animal/human hybrids. He writes art-related and queer- ...

Date of birth: 1958

Age: 67

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

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Australian contemporary painters 18T

LGBT artists from Australia 19T

Artists from Melbourne 178T
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Georges Mora

German-born Australian businessman, gallerist, art dealer

Overview: Georges Mora (June 26, 1913 – June 7, 1992) was a German-born Australian entrepreneur, art dealer, patron, connoisseur and restaurateur.

Date of birth: 26 June 1913

Date of death: 7 June 1992

Age: 78 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Art Director

Gender: Male

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Mora family 4T

Australian people of Polish-Jewish descent 66T

German emigrants to Australia 180T
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Civilian (street artist)

Australian graffiti artist

Overview: Civilian is the nom de plume of Tom Civil a street artist, operating out of Melbourne, Australia, who has been profiled as a "leading player" of "the city's vibrant stencil art scene".

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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21st-century Australian artists 205T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,003T

20th-century Australian people 394T
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Charles Billich

Croatian Australian painter

Overview: Karlo Bilić, mostly known as Charles "Carlo" Billich (6 September 1934) is a Croatian artist. He is the recipient of the 2000 Sport Artist of the Year Award presented annually by the American Sport Art ...

Date of birth: 6 September 1934

Age: 90

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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Croatian male painters 70T

21st-century Croatian painters 19T

20th-century male artists 3,569T
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Jenny Sages

Australian artist

Overview: Jenny Sages is an Archibald Prize People's Choice Award winning Australian artist born 1933 in Shanghai, China. She is known for her abstract landscape paintings and portraits. She arrived in Australia ...

Date of birth: 1933

Age: 92

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Archibald Prize People's Choice Award winners 14T

Archibald Prize finalists 73T

Artists from Sydney 76T
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Wendy Sharpe

Australian women artist

Overview: Wendy Sharpe FRSN (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She is the only child of British parents and has a Russian Jewish heritage. Her father is the writer ...

Date of birth: 1960

Age: 65

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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21st-century Australian women artists 128T

20th-century Australian women artists 301T

Archibald Prize finalists 73T
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Bill Leak

Painter

Overview: Desmond Robert "Bill" Leak (9 January 1956 – 10 March 2017) was an Australian editorial cartoonist, caricaturist and portraitist.

Date of birth: 9 January 1956

Date of death: 10 March 2017

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Cartoonist

Gender: Male

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Julian Ashton Art School alumni 60T

Archibald Prize People's Choice Award winners 14T

Archibald Prize Packing Room Prize winners 9T
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Cherry Hood

Australian artist

Overview: Cherry Hood is an Australian artist, known for her portraiture. She won the 2002 Archibald Prize for her portrait Simon Tedeschi Unplugged.

Date of birth: 11 September 1959

Age: 65

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Female

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Archibald Prize finalists 73T

21st-century women artists 2,023T

Australian women painters 201T
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Reg Mombassa

Musical artist

Overview: Christopher O'Doherty, also known by the pseudonym Reg Mombassa, is an Australian New Zealand-born artist and musician. He is a founding member of the band Mental As Anything and member of Dog Trumpet ...

Date of birth: 14 August 1951

Age: 73

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Artist

Gender: Male

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National Art School alumni 48T

New Zealand emigrants to Australia 418T

Australian painters 614T
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Philippe Mora

Australian film director

Overview: Philippe Mora (born 1949) is an Australian film director.

Date of birth: 1949

Age: 76

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Film Director

Gender: Male

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Mora family 4T

Australian people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent 7T

Australian people of Romanian-Jewish descent 10T
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Tracey Moffatt

Australian film director

Overview: Tracey Moffatt AO (born 12 November 1960) is an Australian artist who primarily uses photography and video.

Date of birth: 12 November 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Photographer

Gender: Female

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21st-century women photographers 411T

20th-century women photographers 594T

21st-century Australian women artists 128T
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Kathleen O'Connor

Australian impressionist painter (1876–1968)

Overview: Kathleen Laetitia "Kate" O'Connor (14 September 1876 – 24 August 1968) was an impressionist painter with a career in Western Australia and France. She was a daughter of the celebrated engineer C. Y. O'Connor ...

Date of birth: 14 September 1876

Date of death: 24 August 1968

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Painter

Gender: Female

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20th-century Australian women artists 414T

People educated at Samuel Marsden Collegiate School 24T

Australian Impressionist painters 8T
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Mary Featherston

Australian interior designer

Overview: Mary Bronwyn Featherston AM (born 1943) is an Australian interior designer and designer of child-friendly play and learning environments. She is known both for her furniture and design collaboration with ...

Date of birth: 1943

Age: 82

Nationality: Australian

Occupation: Designer

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