List of Australian women artists

This is a list of women artists who were born in Australia or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

A

Anita Aarons (1912–2000), sculptor
Yilpi Adamson (born 1954), textile artist, painter
Alison Alder (born 1958), screenprinter
Joyce Allan (1896–1966), scientific illustrator
Micky Allan (born 1944), photographer
Beverly Allen (born 1945), botanical artist
Davida Allen (born 1951), painter, filmmaker, writer
Mary Cecil Allen (1893–1962), painter, writer
Lily Allport (1860–1949), oil painter and watercolourist
Edith Susan Gerard Anderson (1880–1961), painter, artist's model, writer
Daisy Andrews (c. 1934/1935–2015), painter
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (1940–2013), painter
Alison Marjorie Ashby (1901–1987), botanical artist
Mireille Astore (born 1961), Lebanese-born photographer, sculptor, performance artist, writer
Louisa Atkinson (1834–1872), illustrator, botanist, writer
Yvonne Audette (born 1930), painter
Narelle Autio (born 1969), photographer

B

Maringka Baker (born c. 1952), painter
Marie-Claire Baldenweg (born 1954), Swiss-born painter
Alice Marian Ellen Bale (1875–1955), painter
Bronwyn Bancroft (born 1958), fashion designer, illustrator
Irene Barberis (born 1953), English-born painter, installation artist, drawer
Agnes Barker (1907–2008), potter and craftworker
Elsie Barlow (1876–1948), painter, printmaker
Gwen Barringer (1882–1960), watercolourist
Ethel Barringer (1883–1925), etcher
Del Kathryn Barton (born 1972), painter
Clarice Beckett (1887–1935), painter
Bianca Beetson, sculptor, painter, installation artist, photographer, ceramist
Lisa Bellear (1961–2006), photographer, poet, dramatist, comedian
Jean Bellette (1908–1991), painter
Allana Beltran, performance artist
Jane Bennett (born 1960), painter
Eva Benson (1875–1949), sculptor
Danelle Bergstrom (born 1957), painter
Martha Berkeley (1813–1899), painter
Moira Bertram (born 1929), comic artist, illustrator
Vivienne Binns (born 1940), painter
Dorrit Black (1891–1951), painter, printmaker
Freya Blackwood (born 1975), illustrator, special effects artist
Florence Turner Blake (1873–1959), painter
Elise Blumann (1897–1990), painter
Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri (c. 1935–2003), painter
Marion Borgelt (born 1954), painter, installation artist, mixed media artist
Polly Borland (born 1959), photographer
Nancy Borlase (1914–2006), painter, art critic
G. W. Bot, printmaker, sculptor, painter and graphic artist
Penny Bovell (born 1956), painter and art historian
Stella Bowen (1893–1947), painter
Doris Boyd (1888–1960), painter, ceramist
Emma Minnie Boyd (1858–1936), painter
Pat Brassington (born 1942), photographer, digital artist
Dorothy Mary Braund (1926–2013)), painter
Kate Breakey (born 1957), photographer
Angela Brennan (born 1960), painter, ceramist
Lauren Brincat (born 1980), performance and installation artist
Anmanari Brown, painter
Nyuju Stumpy Brown (1924–2011), indigenous painter
Lina Bryans (1909–2000), painter
Norma Bull (1906–1980), painter, printmaker, etcher
Jane Burton (born 1966), photographer

C

Barbara Campbell (born 1961), performance and installation artist
Cressida Campbell (born 1960), printmaker
Joan Campbell (1925–1997), ceramist
Jane Cannan (1822–1861), painter, drawer
Frances Cannon (born 1992), painter, drawer
Judy Cassab (1920–2015), Austrian-born painter
Alex Cearns, photographer
Queenie Chan (born 1974), Hong Kong-born comic artist
Alice Chapman (1860–1929), Australian painter
Dora Chapman (1911–1995), painter, silk-screen printer, potter and art teacher
Deanne Cheuk, illustrator, designer, art director
Julia Church (born 1959), painter, printmaker, graphic designer
Margaret Cilento (1923–2006), painter, printmaker
Bree Kristel Clarke, photographer
Densey Clyne (1922–2019), Welsh-born photographer, naturalist, writer
Ola Cohn (1892–1964), sculptor
Bindi Cole (born 1975), photographer, video artist, installation artist
Justine Cooper (born 1968), animator, video artist, photographer
Edith Corbet (1846–1920), landscape painter
Olive Cotton (1911–2003), photographer
Virginia Coventry (born 1940), photographer
Theodora Cowan (1868–1949), sculptor, painter
Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984), painter, illustrator
Grace Crowley (1890–1979), painter
Elisabeth Cummings (born 1934), painter
Virginia Cuppaidge (born 1943), contemporary abstract expressionist painter

D

Anne Dangar (1885–1951), painter, potter
Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels (1936–2004), painter
Bessie Davidson (1879–1965), painter
Olive Blanche Davies (1884–1976/7), botanical illustrator
Debra Dawes (born 1955), painter
Janet Dawson (born 1935), painter
eX De Medici (born 1959), visual artist
Destiny Deacon (born 1957), photographer
Linda Dement (born 1960), photographer, digital artist
Aileen Dent (1890–1978), painter
Maggie Diaz (1925–2016), photographer
Dorothy Djukulul (born 1942), painter and installation artist
Annie Dorrington (1866–1926), painter, flag designer
Mel Douglas (born 1978), glass artist
Elizabeth Durack (1915–2000), painter, writer
Olive Dutton Green (1878–1930), painter
Mikala Dwyer (born 1959), sculptor
Anne Dybka (1922–2007), English-born Australian glass engraver
Moya Dyring (1909–1967), painter

E

Margery Edwards (1933–1989), mixed media artist, painter
Mary Edwell-Burke (1894–1988), painter
Bernice E. Edwell (1880–1962), painter
Bonita Ely (born 1946), performance artist
Esther Erlich, painter
Joyce Evans (1929–2019), photographer
Lina Eve (born 1946), painter, photographer, filmmaker, singer

F

Susan Fereday (1810–1878), botanical artist
Susan Fereday (born 1959), photographer, installation artist
Tania Ferrier (born 1958), painter, installation artist, feminist fashion
Emily Floyd (born 1972), public artist, sculptor and printmaker
Sue Ford (1943–2009), photographer
Zoe Freney, painter
Ella Fry (1916–1997), painter
Florence Fuller (1867–1946), South African-born painter

G

Kiley Gaffney, performance artist, musician
Silvana Gardner, visual artist, writer
Rosalie Gascoigne (1917–1999), New Zealand-born sculptor
Marea Gazzard (1928–2013), sculptor, ceramist
Portia Geach (1873–1959), portrait painter and feminist
Anne Geddes (born 1956), photographer
Kate Geraghty (born 1972), photographer
Lisa Gervasoni (born 1969), photographer, strategic planner
May Gibbs (1877–1969), children's book illustrator, cartoonist, author
Agnes Goodsir (1864–1939), portrait painter
Mini Graff, New Zealand-born street artist
Jacqui Grantford (born 1967), painter, illustrator
Elizabeth Gray (died 1903), Irish-born painter, etcher
Virginia Grayson (born 1967), visual artist, winner of the Dobell Drawing Prize
Denise Green (born 1946), painter
Jillian Green (born 1975), artist who explores spiritual themes
Rona Green (born 1972), printmaker, painter, drawer, sculptor
Nicki Greenberg (born 1974), comic artist, illustrator
Ina Gregory (1874–1964), painter
Ann Grocott (born 1938), writer and painter
Henrietta Maria Gulliver (1886–1945), painter

H

Emma Hack (born 1972), photographer
Jenny Hale (born 1959), children's book illustrator, author
Fiona Margaret Hall (born 1953), photographer, sculptor
Deborah Halpern (born 1967), sculptor, mosaic artist, ceramist
Alice Hambidge (1869–1947), painter
Michelle Hamer (born 1975), textile artist
Lyn Hancock, photographer, writer
Barbara Hanrahan (1939–1991), painter, printmaker, writer
Lily Nungarrayi Yirringali Jurrah Hargraves (born 1930), painter
Melinda Harper (born 1965), abstract artist
Ponch Hawkes (born 1946), photographer
Maude Haydon (1886–1978), pastoral and landscape artist
Louise Hearman (born 1963), painter
Nada Herman-Witkamp (born 1965), painter
Joy Hester (1920–1960), painter, poet
Nora Heysen (1911–2003), painter
Kit Hiller (born 1948), linocut printer and oil painter
Naomi Hobson (born 1979), painter
Edith Lilla Holmes (1893–1973), painter
Cherry Hood (born 1950), painter
Marie Horseman (1911–1974), cartoonist, illustrator, fashion designer
Valma Howell (1896–1979), painter, actress
Polly Hurry (1883–1963), painter
Margot Hutcheson (born 1952), British-born painter

I

Kylie InGold (born 1962), painter
Mehwish Iqbal, Pakistani-born painter
Adelaide Ironside (1831–1867), painter
Pamela Irving (born 1960), ceramist, sculptor, printmaker
Jean Isherwood (1911–2006), painter
Linde Ivimey (born 1965), sculptor

J

Ann James (born 1952), children's book illustrator, graphic designer
Natalie Jeremijenko (born 1966), installation artist
Carol Jerrems (1949–1980), photographer
Natasha Johns-Messenger, installation artist, photographer
Anne Jolliffe (born 1933), animator
Peggy Napangardi Jones (1951–2014), painter
Ellen Jose (1951–2017), photographer, printmaker
Narelle Jubelin (born 1960), sculptor, printmaker and multimedia installation artist
Anne Judell (born 1942), drawer
Mabel Juli, (born c.1933), painter

K

Shokufeh Kavani (born 1970), Iranian-born painter
Hanna Kay, Israeli-born painter
Jennifer Keeler-Milne (born 1961), painter, drawer
Anwen Keeling (born 1976), portrait painter
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
Inge King (1915–2016), German-born sculptor
Leah King-Smith (born 1956), photographer
Anita Klein (born 1960), painter, printmaker
Anastasia Klose (born 1978), performance artist, installation artist
Sue Kneebone, ceramicist, mixed media and photomontage
Lisette Kohlhagen (1890–1969), painter
Yvonne Koolmatrie (born 1944), weaver
Carmen Ky (born 1946), visual artist, painter, printmaker, photographer

L

Vida Lahey (1882–1968), painter
Pat Larter (1936–1996), mail artist, photographer, performance artist, painter
Janet Laurence (born 1947), mixed media artist, installation artist
Ruby Lindsay (1885–1919), illustrator, painter
Loongkoonan (born c. 1910), painter, Aboriginal elder
Mildred Lovett (1880–1955), china painter
Fiona Lowry (born 1974), painter

M

Shirley Macnamara, textile sculptor and painter
Mary Macqueen (1912–1994), printmaker, drawing and mixed media artist
Bea Maddock (1934–2016), printmaker, painter, installation artist
Ma Mahood (1901–1989), painter, ceramist, printmaker
Gillian Mann (1939–2007), printmaker
Diane Mantzaris (born 1962), digital artist, printmaker
Nerine Martini (1968–2019), installation artist
Galuma Maymuru (born 1951), painter
Daphne Mayo (1895–1982), sculptor
Kathleen McArthur (1915–2001), botanical illustrator, environmentalist, naturalist
Jennifer McCamley (born 1957), conceptual artist
Georgiana McCrae (1804–1890), painter, diarist
Francine McDougall, filmmaker, photographer
Erica McGilchrist (1926–2014), painter, set and costume designer
Queenie McKenzie (c. 1920–1998), painter
Penny Meagher (1935–1995), painter
Lilian Marguerite Medland (1880–1955), illustrator, painter
Dora Meeson (1869–1955), painter
Annemieke Mein (born 1944), Dutch-born textile artist
Mary Cockburn Mercer (1882–1963), painter
Bertha Merfield (1869–1921), painter, muralist
Sanné Mestrom, sculptor
Margaret Michaelis-Sachs (1902–1985), Polish-born photographer
Jan Mitchell (1940–2008), painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker
Joanne Mitchelson (born 1971), painter
Tracey Moffatt (born 1960), photographer, filmmaker, video artist
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), illustrator, author, dramatist
Christine Morrow (born 1971), British-born visual artist
Eirene Mort (1879–1977), artist, art teacher, printmaker, cartoonist and fashion designer
Patricia Mullins (born 1952), children's book illustrator

N

Rosella Namok (born 1979), painter
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, painter
Dorothy Napangardi (died 2013), painter
Lily Kelly Napangardi (born c. 1948), painter
Yalti Napangati (born c. 1970), painter
Norie Neumark, American-born sound artist
Ann Newmarch (born 1945), painter, printmaker, sculptor
June Newton (born 1923), photographer, actress
Hilda Rix Nicholas (1884–1961), painter
Deborah Niland (born 1950), children's book illustrator, author
Rosaleen Norton (1917–1979), painter, occultist
Lena Nyadbi (born c. 1936), painter, installation artist

O

Denese Oates (born 1955), sculptor
Carla O'Brien, installation artist
Kathleen O'Brien (1914–1991), comic artist, illustrator, fashion artist
Ailsa O'Connor (1921–1980), sculptor, painter, teacher, activist
Kathleen O'Connor (1876–1968), New Zealand-born painter
Pixie O'Harris (1903–1991), Welsh-born illustrator, cartoonist, painter, author
Bronwyn Oliver (1959–2006), sculptor
Margaret Olley (1923–2011), painter
Rosemary Opala (1923–2008), illustrator, writer, nurse
Mandy Ord (born 1974), comic artist
Raquel Ormella (born 1969), multimedia artist
Jill Orr (born 1952), performance artist, photographer, installation artist
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (1888–1960), children's book illustrator

P

Josonia Palaitis, painter
Polixeni Papapetrou (born 1960), photographer
Wendy Paramor (1938–1975), painter, sculptor
Klytie Pate (1912–2010), ceramist
Esther Paterson (1892–1971), painter, cartoonist, book illustrator
Anelia Pavlova (born 1956), Bulgarian-born painter, printmaker, illustrator, ceramist
Gloria Petyarre (born 1946), painter
Jeanna Petyarre (born 1950), painter
Kathleen Petyarre (c. 1940–2018), painter
Nancy Petyarre (died 2009), painter
Debra Phillips (born 1958), photographer, sculptor
Patricia Piccinini (born 1965), mixed media artist, painter, sculptor, digital artist, installation artist
Julianne Pierce, new media artist, curator, art critic
Rosslynd Piggott (born 1958), installation artist and painter
Gwyn Hanssen Pigott (1935–2013), ceramist
Anne Pincus (born 1961), painter, sculptor
Margaret Preston (1875–1963), painter, printmaker
Jane Price (1860–1948), painter
Thea Proctor (1879–1966), painter
Minnie Pwerle (died 2006), painter

R

Melinda Rackham (born 1959), digital artist
Iso Rae (1860–1940), painter, drawer
r e a (artist), photographer and installation artist
Geraldine Rede (1874–1943), artist
Jacky Redgate
Norma Redpath (1928–2013), painter, sculptor
Alison Rehfisch (1900–1974), painter
Susan Respinger (born 1982), portrait artist, muralist
Gladys Reynell (1881–1956), potter
Kate Rich, sound artist, video artist
Therese Ritchie (born 1961), contemporary artist, writer and graphic designer
Toni Robertson (born 1953), visual artist, art historian printmaker
Amanda Robins (born 1961), painter, drawer
Julia Robinson (born 1981), sculptor and textile artist
Florence Aline Rodway (1881–1971), painter, drawer, portrait artist
Lisa Roet (born 1967), sculptor, drawer, photographer, filmmaker
Madeleine Rosca (born 1977), comic artist
Celia Rosser (born 1930), botanical illustrator
Joan Ross (born 1961), mixed media painter
Daisy Rossi (1879–1974), painter, interior designer
Julie Rrap (born 1950), photographer, sculptor, painter
Carol Rudyard (born 1922), visual artist
Nura Rupert (born c. 1933), printmaker, painter
Lola Ryan (1925–2003), shellworker
Therese Ryder (born 1946), painter and linguist

S

Jenny Sages (born 1933), Chinese-born painter, illustrator
Helena Scott (1832–1910), natural history illustrator
Nicola Scott, comic artist
Dora Serle (1875–1968), painter
Raelene Sharp (born 1957), portrait painter
Wendy Sharpe (born 1960), painter
Heather Shimmen (born 1957), painter, printmaker
Ivy Shore (1915–1999), painter
Norah Simpson (1895–1974), painter
Alexia Sinclair (born 1976), photographer
Sally Smart (born 1960), assemblage installation artist
Gemma Smith (born 1978), painter and sculptor
Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984), painter, illustrator
Clara Southern (1861–1940), painter
Ruby Spowart (born 1928), photographer
Ethel Spowers (1890–1947), printmaker, illustrator
Robyn Stacey Australian photographer and photo-artist
Miriam Stannage (1939–2016), painter, printmaker, photographer
Madonna Staunton (1938–2019), artist and poet
Sophie Steffanoni (1873–1906), landscape painter and embroiderer
Amanda Stewart (born 1959), performance artist, poet
Mary Stoddard (1852–1901), Scottish-born painter of still lifes, miniatures and full-size portraits
Constance Stokes (1906–1991), painter, drawer
Dorothy Stoner (1904–1992), Australian painter
Nora Sumberg (born 1956), landscape painter
Jane Sutherland (1853–1928), landscape painter
Linda Syddick Napaltjarri (born c. 1937), painter
Eveline Winifred Syme (1888–1961), painter, printmaker

T

Jane Tanner (born 1946), children's book illustrator
Pulya Taylor, sculptor, craftsmaker, woodworker
Stephanie Taylor (1899–1974), artist, printmaker, gallerist, lecturer and art writer and broadcaster
Violet Teague (1872–1951), painter, mural designer
Margaret Thomas (1842–1929), painter, writer
Lesbia Thorpe (1919–2009), printmaker
Emma Timbery (c.1842–1916), shellworker
Esme Timbery (born 1931), shellworker
Wingu Tingima (died 2010), painter
Topsy Tjulyata (born 1931), sculptor, craftsmaker, woodworker
Aida Tomescu (born 1955), Romanian-born painter
Mollie Tomlin (1923–2009), painter
Mary Tonkin, drawer
Jessie Traill (1881–1967), printmaker, painter
Barbara Tribe (1913–2000), sculptor and painter
Zoja Trofimiuk (born 1952), Czech-born sculptor, printmaker
Marie Tuck (1866–1947), painter, art educator
Ruth Tuck (1914–2008), painter

U

Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann (born 1950), painter, educator

V

May Vale (1862–1945), painter
Lesley Vanderwalt, makeup artist
Vicki Varvaressos (born 1949), painter
Vexta, stencil artist, street artist

W

Megan Walch (born 1967), painter
Rose A. Walker (1879–1942), painter
Theresa Walker (artist) (1807–1876), sculptor and wax modeller
Anne Wallace (born 1970), painter
Lynette Wallworth, installation artist
Ania Walwicz (born 1951), visual artist, poet
Rosie Ware (born 1959), textile designer and printmaker
Sera Waters (born 1979), textile artist, arts writer and arts educator
Jenny Watson (born 1951), painter
Lilla Watson (born 1940), mixed media artist
Louise Weaver (born 1966), mixed media artist
Anne Wienholt (1920–2018), painter, sculptor, printmaker
Carlene West (born c. 1945), painter
Katie West, interdisciplinary artist
Ilka White, textile artist, sculptor
Susan Dorothea White (born 1941), painter, sculptor, printmaker
Wendy Whiteley (born 1941), landscape artist, flower artist
Cathy Wilcox (born 1963), comic artist, children's book illustrator
Justene Williams (born 1970), photographer and multimedia artist
Jan Williamson, painter
Ruby Tjangawa Williamson (c. 1940–2017), painter, woodworker
Ju Ju Wilson, painter, craftsmaker
Tjayanka Woods (born c. 1935), painter, weaver
Margaret Worth (born 1944), painter, screenprinter, sculptor

X

Bin Xie (born 1957), Chinese-born painter

Y

Paji Honeychild Yankarr (c.1912–2004), painter
Nyapanyapa Yunupingu (born c.1945), painter

Z

Anne Zahalka (born 1957), photographer

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