List of Australian artists
This is a list of Australian artists.
A
- Anita Aarons : sculptor
- Harold Abbott : painter
- Ian Abdulla : Ngarrindjeri naive artist
- Abdul Abdullah : multimedia artist
- Jack Absalom : artist, author and adventurer
- Louis Abrahams : painter, etcher
- Tate Adams : artist
- Joyce Allan : scientific illustrator
- Micky Allan : photographer
- Beverly Allen : botanical artist
- Davida Allen : painter, filmmaker and writer
- Mary Cecil Allen : painter, writer
- Mary Morton Allport : lithographer, etcher and engraver, landscapes and miniatures
- Ernie Althoff : musician, composer, instrument builder, and visual artist
- Tony Ameneiro : artist, printmaker
- Rick Amor : artist and figurative painter
- Roy Ananda : sculptor
- Brook Andrew : contemporary artist
- Daisy Andrews : Aboriginal painter
- Garry Andrews : painter, printmaker and art teacher
- Gordon Andrews : industrial and graphic designer; designed Australia's first decimal banknotes
- George French Angas : painter
- James Angus : sculptor
- Giulio Anivitti : artist, art teacher, portrait painter and gallery curator
- Douglas Annand : graphic designer and artist
- Len Annois : watercolors
- Jean Appleton : prize-winning painter, printmaker, art teacher
- Silvio Apponyi : German-Australian sculptor
- Howard Arkley : painter of houses, architecture, and suburbia
- Hany Armanious : artist
- Elizabeth Armstrong : artist and art teacher
- Ian Armstrong : painter and printmaker
- Raymond Arnold
- Alison Marjorie Ashby : botanical artist
- James Ashton : artist and arts educator
- Julian Ashton : artist and teacher
- Julian Howard Ashton : journalist, writer, artist and critic
- Will Ashton : artist and gallery director
- Olive Ashworth : textile designer
- Estelle Asmodelle : abstract artist, musician, and academic
- Cristina Asquith Baker
- Mireille Astore : artist, writer and filmmaker
- Michael Atchison OAM : South Australian cartoonist
- Louisa Atkinson : illustrator, botanist, writer
- Yvonne Audette : painter
- J. Muir Auld : painter of landscapes and figure subjects
- Daryl Austin : painter and arts education
- Narelle Autio : photographer
B
- Joseph Backler : English-born Australian painter
- Herbert Badham : realist painter
- Thomas Baines : English artist and explorer of British colonial southern Africa and Australia
- Jeannie Baker : English-born children's picture book author and artist
- Maringka Baker : painter
- Normand Baker : artist, winner of 1937 Archibald Prize
- Arthur Baker-Clack : expatriate Impressionist painter of landscapes, resident of the Étaples art colony
- Marie-Claire Baldenweg : Swiss–Australian contemporary artist
- George Baldessin : Italian–Australian artist
- Alice Marian Ellen Bale : exhibited with the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors
- Percival Ball : English sculptor active in Australia
- Sydney Ball : abstract painter
- Bronwyn Bancroft : fashion designer, illustrator
- Rosalie Edith Bandt : composer, sound artist, academic and performer
- William Barak : Aboriginal artist of traditional Indigenous life and encounters with Europeans
- Irene Barberis : English-born painter, installation artist, drawer
- Caroline Barker : painter
- Elsie Barlow : painter, printmaker
- Gustave Barnes : English violinist, painter and sculptor
- Virginia Barratt : researcher, artist, writer and performer
- Jeremy Barrett : artist
- Ethel Barringer : etcher
- Gwen Barringer : watercolourist
- Herbert Page Barringer : watercolourist
- Del Kathryn Barton : artist, winner of 2008 and 2013 Archibald Prizes
- Margaret Baskerville : Victorian sculptor and painter
- Tom Bass : sculptor
- Edward La Trobe Bateman : painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and garden designer
- H. M. Bateman : humorous artist and cartoonist
- Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman : landscape painter
- Terry Batt : artist and sculptor
- Rex Battarbee : painter
- Ferdinand Bauer : Austrian botanical illustrator
- Lionel Bawden : artist
- Clark Beaumont , video, performance art
- John Beard : painter, winner of 2006 Wynne Prize and 2007 Archibald Prize
- John Watt Beattie : photographer
- Christopher Beaumont : still life painter
- Clarice Beckett : painter
- Paddy Bedford : Indigenous artist and architect
- Bianca Beetson: Aboriginal artist
- Marcus Beilby : artist, winner of 1987 Sulman Prize
- George Bell : painter who studied in London and Paris
- Richard Bell : painter who courted controversy
- Robert Stewart Bell AM : artist in ceramics and textiles and arts curator
- Lisa Bellear : photographer, poet, dramatist, comedian
- Jean Bellette : painter
- Allana Beltran: performance artist
- Jason Benjamin : painter, winner of 2005 Archibald Prize
- Anthony Bennett : painter, Archibald Prize finalist 2008, 2009
- Gordon Bennett : Aboriginal artist
- Jane Bennett : painter
- Portia Mary Bennett : painter
- Stephen Benwell : ceramicist
- Moira Bertram : comic artist, illustrator
- Kevin Best : artist, awarded the Order of Australia
- Kate Beynon : artist
- Charles Billich : artist
- Asher Bilu : painter and sculptor
- Vivienne Binns : artist, awarded the Order of Australia
- Karna Maria Birmingham : artist, illustrator and printmaker
- Dorrit Black : painter, printmaker
- Charles Blackman : landscape artist
- Freya Blackwood : illustrator, special effects artist
- Florence Turner Blake : painter
- Robin Blau : design artist, sculptor, jeweller
- Peter Michael Blayney : artist
- Godfrey Blow : artist, founder of the Perth Stuckists
- Elise Blumann : German-born artist who achieved recognition as an Expressionist painter
- Yvonne Boag
- Thomas Bock : portraitist
- Wim Boissevain : painter
- Peter Bonner : artist
- Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri : painter
- David Booker : contemporary sculptor
- Jeremy Boot : wildlife painter
- Peter Booth : figurative and abstract painter
- Marion Borgelt : contemporary painter and mixed-media artist
- Polly Borland : photographer
- Nancy Borlase : New Zealand-born landscape-based abstract painter and portraitist
- Paul Boston : artist
- Stella Bowen : painter
- William Leslie Bowles : sculptor and medallist
- Walter Armiger Bowring : painter and illustrator
- Arthur Boyd : portraitist, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty
- Daniel Boyd : painter, sculptor and installation artist
- David Boyd : artist of symbolic and historical paintings, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty
- Doris Boyd : painter, ceramist
- Emma Minnie Boyd : painter
- Guy Boyd : sculptor, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty
- Merric Boyd : ceramicist, painter, and sculptor, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty
- Penleigh Boyd : landscape painter, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty
- Robert Boynes : contemporary painter
- John Brack : painter, member of Antipodeans Group
- Godwin Bradbeer : figurative drawing
- Barbara Brash
- Pat Brassington : photographer, digital artist
- Dorothy Mary Braund : painter and printmaker
- Kate Breakey : photographer
- Angela Brennan : painter, ceramist
- Florence Broadhurst : designer
- Horace Brodzky : artist
- Gracius Broinowski : artist and ornithologist
- David Bromley : artist
- Donald Brook : artist
- Anmanari Brown : painter
- Nyuju Stumpy Brown : Wangkatjungka Indigenous Australian painter
- Paul Brown : digital artist
- Andrew Browne : figurative painter
- Richard Browne : artist and illustrator
- Lina Bryans : painter
- Charles David Jones Bryant : marine artist
- Ernest Buckmaster : painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1932
- Elliott Ronald Bull : landscape painter and muralist
- Knud Bull : Norwegian painter and counterfeiter transported to Australia
- Norma Bull : painter, printmaker and etcher
- Rupert Bunny : painter of landscapes, figure studies, and scenes drawn from mythology and literature
- Ian Burn : conceptual artist
- Peter Burns : architect and artist
- Mirranda Burton
- Jane Burton : photographer
- Charles Bush : painter
- William Bustard : stained glass artist
- Louis Buvelot : Swiss-born landscape painter who emigrated to Australia
- Sam Byrne : folk painter from Broken Hill
C
- Nicholas Caire : photographer
- Peter Callas : video artist
- Charles Callins : painter in the naïve manner
- H. H. Calvert : artist
- Cressida Campbell : printmaker
- Joan Campbell : ceramist
- Robert Campbell : painter and gallery director
- Jane Cannan : painter, drawer
- James Cant : surrealist painter and teacher
- David Caon : designer
- Jack Carington Smith : artist and teacher from Tasmania who won the Archibald Prize in 1963
- Ethel Carrick : painter
- Tom Carrington : journalist, political cartoonist and illustrator
- Milyika Carroll
- James Howe Carse : British–Australian painter who specialized in landscapes
- Jeff Carter : photographer, filmmaker and author
- Maie Casey : aviator, poet, librettist, biographer, memoirist and artist
- Judy Cassab : painter, twice won the Archibald Prize
- John Cato : photographer and influential lecturer in photography.
- Angela Cavalieri
- Gino Cavicchioli : Australian-born bust sculptor now living in Canada
- Neville Henry Cayley : bird artist, ornithologist
- Neville William Cayley : bird artist, author, ornithologist
- Harold Cazneaux : pictorialist photographer
- Alex Cearns: photographer
- Mutlu Çerkez : conceptual artist
- Queenie Chan : Hong Kong-born comic artist
- Nicholas Chevalier : Russian-born artist, illustrator in lithography and water-colour
- Gunter Christmann : German-born Australian painter
- Ernest William Christmas
- Betty Churcher : arts administrator and painter
- Peter Churcher : painter of portraits and figures in a realistic style
- Marc Clark : sculptor and printmaker
- Bree Kristel Clarke: photographer
- Joseph Augustine Clarke : artist, painter, journal illustrator and arts-teacher
- Richard Clements : painter
- James Clifford : painter
- Robert Clinch : painter and lithographer
- Romola Clifton, Perth painter
- Densey Clyne : Welsh-born photographer, naturalist, writer
- George James Coates : portrait painter
- John Coburn : painter, teacher, tapestry designer and printmaker
- R. Sidney Cocks : artist
- Margaret Coen : artist
- Ola Cohn : sculptor
- Colin Colahan : painter and sculptor, died in Italy
- Bindi Cole : photographer, video artist, installation artist
- Alfred Coleman : painter
- George Collingridge : writer and illustrator
- Albert Collins : painter, teacher and actor
- Amalie Sara Colquhoun : painter
- Charles Conder : English-born painter of the Heidelberg School who emigrated to Australia
- Daniel Connell : artist
- Kevin Connor : artist, two-time winner of the Archibald Prize
- Sylvia Convey : painter
- Michael Cook : photographic artist
- William Delafield Cook : artist
- Justine Cooper : animator, video artist, photographer
- William T. Cooper : scientific painter of birds, recipient of a Gold Medal for Distinction in Natural History Art from The Academy of Natural Sciences, Drexel University
- Yvette Coppersmith : painter
- Edith Corbet : landscape painter
- Olive Cotton : photographer
- Noel Counihan : social realist painter
- Jack Courier
- Virginia Coventry : photographer
- Theodora Cowan : sculptor, painter
- Steve Cox : painter and watercolourist
- Mimmo Cozzolino : graphic designer and photo media artist
- Sybil Mary Frances Craig : painter
- Fred Cress : artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1988
- Brenda Croft : artist, photographer, curator
- Peggie Crombie : painter
- Ray Crooke : portrait artist, Archibald Prize winner in 1969
- Grace Crowley : abstract artist
- Francis R. Crozier : war records artist
- Adam Cullen : artist, winner of the Archibald Prize in 2000
- Frank Cullen landscape artist
- Janet Cumbrae Stewart : painter
- Elisabeth Cummings : multi-award-winning artist and teacher
- James Waltham Curtis : painter, illustrator, and photographic colourist