Feb 20, 2020
Dr Joan Janet Bayliss (nee Twycross) is an Australian artist, author, teacher and psychologist who was born in Rabaul, New Britain in March 1925 to a wireless officer father (James Twycross) and homemaker mother (Annie) who were both from Western Australia and had married on the neighbouring island of New Britain in...
Feb 19, 2020
Genevieve Berry (nee McCann) was born in Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania on the 25th of November 1937 to a musician and music retailer father (Leonard McCann) and homemaker mother (Winnifred Deegan). She married in London to a hydrologist engineer Brendan Berry and between 1963 and 1964 lived in Jordan and Saudi...
Feb 13, 2020
Robert Charles Hitchcock is an Australian sculptor of Indigenous Australian and Irish descent. He commenced his career in 1965 and works in a wide variety of subjects and materials. Hitchcock is one of the leading portrait sculptors currently working in Australia today. He is known for his life size and super life size...
Feb 13, 2020
Christine Anne Davis (nee Munsel) was born at Merredin in Western Australia’s wheatbelt on 3rd January 1961. She undertook her first studies in Art in Fukuoka, Japan in 1978 as a Rotary Exchange student. She completed a Certificate of Fine Art in 1980 and a Diploma of Fine Art (Painting) in 1982 from the...
Feb 13, 2020
May O’Neill (nee Courtney) was born at Salford in Manchester in the United Kingdom on the 20th of July 1931. Her mother left when May was eight years old and she was brought up by her father John Joseph Courtney, who could speak five languages fluently and worked for the British and Continental Steamship Company. She...