1. Frederick McCubbin (1855)

Australian Artist

Australian painter who was part of an important period of Australia's visual arts history and was prominent in the Heidelberg School.

2. Sidney Nolan (1917)

Australian Artist

Famed Australian painter known for his portraits of famous people, including Ned Kelly and Eliza Fraser.

3. Arthur Boyd (1920)

Australian Artist

Remembered for both his impressionistic landscapes and his expressionistic figure paintings, this acclaimed twentieth-century artist created such famous works as The Expulsion, Bathers Pulpit Rock, and the Nebuchadnezzar and Bride...

4. Jeff Hook (1928)

Australian Artist

Popular cartoonist and Australian artist and animator. In 1987, he won the Best Political Cartoon Award at the International Cartoon Festival.

5. Rolf Harris (1930)

Australian Artist

Australian artist known equally for his music and drawings. He released the hit "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport." In July 2014, he was sentenced to more than five years in...

6. Brett Whiteley (1939)

Australian Artist

Avant-garde artist known for his portraits, landscape paintings, and unique sculptures. His "Head of Christie" represented his 1964 fascination with murderer John Christie.

7. Zoja Trofimiuk (1952)

Australian Artist

Australian sculptor and printmaker who specialized in cast glass. She was named a Member Print Commission by the Print Council of Australia.

8. Steve Cox (artist) (Unknow)

Australian Artist

Steve Cox is an Australian painter and watercolour artist known for his psychologically penetrating images of youths and young men; stream of consciousness landscapes and animal/human hybrids.

9. Richard Bell (artist) (Unknow)

Australian Artist

Richard Bell is an Australian artist and political activist. He lives in Brisbane Queensland. Bell came to the attention of the wider community after his 240×540 cm painting Scientia E...

10. Leigh Bowery (1961)

Australian Artist

Leigh Bowery was an Australian performance artist club promoter actor pop star model and fashion designer based in London. Bowery is considered one of the more influential figures in the...

11. Felicitas Kuhn (1926)

Australian Artist

s Kuhn is an Austrian artist who has illustrated children's books from the 1940s onward. Kuhn was born on 3 January 1926 in Vienna. She graduated from the Advanced Computer...

12. Peter O'Doherty (1958)

Australian Artist

Peter O'Doherty is a musician with Australian band Dog Trumpet and formerly with Australian band Mental As Anything. He is also a recognised fine artist specialising in still life and...

13. Graeme Base (1958)

Australian Artist

Graeme Rowland Base is an author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book Animalia published in 1986 and third book The Eleventh Hour...

14. Asher Bilu (Unknow)

Australian Artist

Asher Bilu is an Australian artist who creates paintings sculptures and installations. He has also contributed to several films by Director Paul Cox as production designer. He was born in...

15. Richard Linton (Unknow)

Australian Artist

Richard Linton ASMA is an internationally renowned Australian artist. His paintings are primarily of maritime subjects.

16. Peter Booth (1940)

Australian Artist

Peter Booth is an Australian figurative and a surrealist painter and one of the key late-20th-century Australian artists. His work is characterised by an intense emotional power of often dark...

17. John Coburn (1925)

Australian Artist

John Coburn was an Australian abstract painter teacher tapestry designer and printmaker. John Coburn was born in Ingham Queensland Australia on 23 September 1925. John moved from town to town...

18. Christian Thompson (artist) (1978)

Australian Artist

Christian Andrew William Bumbarra Thompson is a notable Australian born artist. He was born in Gawler South Australia. He is a Bidjara man and is of British heritage descending from...

19. John Kelly (artist) (1965)

Australian Artist

John Kelly was born in London UK in 1965. His family immigrated to Australia later the same year. In 1985 John obtained a Bachelor of Arts from RMIT University Melbourne...

20. Brett-Livingstone Strong (1953)

Australian Artist

Brett-Livingstone Strong is an Australian-born artist best known for his sculptures of Hollywood celebrities.

21. Paul Davies (artist) (1979)

Australian Artist

Paul Davies is an Australian based Artist working from China Heights studio in Surry Hills and represented by Tim Olsen Gallery in Paddington Sydney Australia.

22. Annita van Iersel (1948)

Australian Artist

Annita Keating van Iersel is the estranged Dutch-born wife of Paul Keating a former Prime Minister of Australia.

23. Rick Amor (1948)

Australian Artist

Rick Amor is an Australian artist and figurative painter. He was an Official War Artist.

24. Marie-Claire Baldenweg (1954)

Australian Artist

Marie-Claire Baldenweg is a Swiss–Australian contemporary artist.

25. Ronald Francis (1954)

Australian Artist

Ron Francis is an artist who paints in a trompe-l'œil style. He was born Ronald Malcolm Francis in Stanmore Sydney Australia in September 1954. In 1974 he moved to Melbourne...

26. Graham Fransella (1950)

Australian Artist

Graham Fransella is an Australian figurative and abstract painter.

27. Sharon Davson (1954)

Australian Artist

Sharon Silver Davson is an Australian artist born in Gatton Queensland. Though Davson has lived in many parts of Australia she has now lived in Newcastle New South Wales for...

28. Valli Kemp (1950)

Australian Artist

Valli Kemp is a former Australian model and actress turned fashion designer painter and art teacher. She is best known for her involvement in several high-profile beauty contests in the...

29. David Jay Reed (1950)

Australian Artist

David Jay Reed is an artist who has also been an actor photographer graphic designer lecturer and artist of various mediums.

30. Cherry Hood (1959)

Australian Artist

Cherry Hood is an Australian artist and sometimes a portraitist. She won the 2002 Archibald Prize for her portrait Simon Tedeschi Unplugged.

31. Marcus Beilby (Unknow)

Australian Artist

Marcus Beilby is an Australian realist painter. Beilby grew up in the Perth suburb of Mount Pleasant. He was educated at Applecross Senior High School and the Claremont Technical College...

32. Bruno Dutot (1962)

Australian Artist

Bruno Dutot is a French-born Australian painter known especially for his public mural of 'Oucha' a woman with cat in Edgecliff Sydney. Born in Normandy the youngest child of 8...

33. Tom Roberts (1856)

Australian Artist

Thomas William Tom Roberts was a prominent Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School.

34. David McDiarmid (Unknow)

Australian Artist

David McDiarmid was an artist designer and political activist recognised for his prominent and sustained artistic engagement in issues relating to gay male identity and HIV/AIDS. He is also known...

35. David Art Wales (1964)

Australian Artist

David Arthur Wales a. k. a. David Wales or David Art Wales is an Australian entrepreneur and artist best known for creating satirical cult figure Guru Adrian. He has been...

36. Margot Hutcheson (1952)

Australian Artist

Margot Hutcheson is a notable British painter who has lived and worked in Australia and Spain. She was a partner of writer Peter Carey.

37. Geoffrey Ricardo (1964)

Australian Artist

Geoffrey Ricardo is an Australian contemporary visual artist whose work focuses around his sculpture and printmaking practice.

38. Simon Penny (1955)

Australian Artist

Simon Graeme Penny is an Australian artist theorist curator and teacher in the field of Interactive Media Art.

39. Gordon Bennett (artist) (Unknow)

Australian Artist

Gordon Bennett is an Australian artist of Aboriginal and Anglo-Gaelic descent. Born in Monto Queensland and now working in Brisbane Bennett is a significant figure in contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

40. Kado Muir (1970)

Australian Artist

Kado Muir is an Australian Aboriginal artist anthropologist and Indigenous rights activist. He is a leader of the Ngalia tribe and an applicant on the Mantjintjarra Ngalia peoples native title...

41. Norah Nelson Napaljarri (1956)

Australian Artist

Norah Nelson Napaljarri is a Warlpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region. Norah Nelson began painting in 1986 and has exhibited her works both in Australia and other countries....

42. Craig Ruddy (1968)

Australian Artist

Craig Ruddy is an Australian artist. In 2004 Ruddy won the Archibald Prize for his charcoal drawing of David Gulpilil entitled Two Worlds. The portrait of the Aboriginal actor won...

43. Simon Fieldhouse (1956)

Australian Artist

Simon Fieldhouse is an artist based in Sydney Australia. He was educated at Newington College Barker College Geelong Grammar School and the University of Sydney where he obtained a Bachelor...

44. Cressida Campbell (1960)

Australian Artist

Cressida Campbell is an Australian artist. She was born in Sydney in 1960 to Ruth and Ross Campbell her older sister is actress Nell Campbell. She studied at East Sydney...

45. Heather Shimmen (1957)

Australian Artist

Heather Shimmen is a contemporary Australian visual artist whose paintings prints and collages often use sinister historical imagery from 16th to 19th century.

46. Valerie Lynch Napaltjarri (1970)

Australian Artist

Valerie Lynch Napaltjarri is an Indigenous Australian artist from Papunya in Australia's Northern Territory. She is a painter and printmaker whose work has been collected by the National Gallery of...

47. Danie Mellor (1971)

Australian Artist

Danie Mellor is an Australian artist who was the winner of the 2009 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Born in Mackay Queensland Mellor grew up in Scotland...

48. Jasper Knight (1978)

Australian Artist

Jasper Knight is an Australian artist based in Sydney. He is the brother of Chaser writer and ABC Radio presenter Dominic Knight. Knight was a finalist in the Archibald Prize...

49. Joanne Mitchelson (1971)

Australian Artist

Joanne Mitchelson is a Tasmanian-born Artist whose Watercolours focus on the natural environment of TasmaniaJoanne was raised near Westbury Tasmania on her parents farm.

50. Meek (street artist) (1981)

Australian Artist

Meek is a notable street artist operating out of Melbourne Australia and specialising in the sub-genre of Stencil graffiti. Meek started putting up street art in early 2003 and enjoys...