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Robert Hawker Dowling (1827–1886): colonial artist; Margaret Dredge (1928–2001) Ada Driver (1868–1954): 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
The boom and bust cycle in contemporary art is evident in the 1980s colonial art boom ending at the time of the 1987 stock market crash and the exit of many artists and dealers, followed by the 2000s boom in Aboriginal dot painting and Australian late modernist painting, which ended at the time of the global financial crisis and growing ...
The Arts in Australia refers to the visual arts, literature, performing arts and music in the area of, on the subject of, or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies. Indigenous Australian art, music and story telling attaches to a 40–60,000-year heritage and continues to affect the ...
Also: Australia: People: By occupation: People in arts occupations: Artists Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century Australian male artists and Category:20th-century Australian women artists The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Thomas Bock was an English-Australian artist and an early adopter of photography in Australia. Born in England he was sentenced to transportation in 1823. After gaining his freedom he set himself up as one of Australia's first professional artists and became well known for his portraits of colonists.
Contemporary Indigenous Australian art is a national movement of international significance with work by Indigenous artists, including paintings by those from the Western Desert, achieving widespread critical acclaim. Because naming conventions for Indigenous Australians vary widely, this list is ordered by first name rather than surname.
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century Australian women painters The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.