Barbara Baynton
Barbara Baynton was born in the Hunter Valley town of Scone, New South Wales, in 1857. In the 1890s, financially secure from her marriage to the retired surgeon Thomas Baynton, she began writing short stories, poetry and articles for the Bulletin. …
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Barbara Hanrahan
Born in Adelaide in 1939, Barbara Hanrahan was a celebrated artist, printmaker and writer. Her first book, a semi-autobiographical account of her childhood, The Scent of Eucalyptus, was published in 1973 to rave reviews. It was followed by another …
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Barry Dickins
Barry Dickins is an author, artist and playwright based in Melbourne. His writing for the stage spans more than two decades and includes the plays: Royboys, A Dickins’ Christmas, The Death of Minnie, Reservoir by Night and Insouciance…
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Barry Hill
Barry Hill is an acclaimed historian, writer and poet. His books include The Best Picture, Raft, Sitting In (an award-winning account of the longest industrial action in Australian history) and The Road To Uluru. Broken Song won many awards on its …
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Bern Emmerichs
Bern Emmerichs is a highly celebrated artist in Australia. Her works are in the Australian National Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria and collections all around the world.
Bern Emmerichs is renowned for her work which explores historical …
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Bethany Macdonald
Bethany Macdonald is an artist and bookseller. She works primarily in paper collage, using traditional cut and paste techniques, painting and preparing different kinds of paper or cardboard before tearing, cutting and assembling it to create her …
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Beverley Farmer
Beverley Farmer was born in Melbourne in 1941. After graduating from the University of Melbourne she worked in the restaurant trade and taught English and French in secondary schools. In 1965 she married a Greek migrant and they went to live, for …
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Blak Douglas
Born Adam Douglas Hill to an Aboriginal father of the Dhungatti People and an Irish-Australian mother, Blak Douglas is trained in illustration and photography, and became a self-taught painter. His artistic style is influenced by the study of …
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Bob Graham
Bob Graham, Australia's leading picture-book maker, has written and illustrated many children's picture books including Oscar's Half Birthday, Buffy and Let's Get a Pup. He won the 2000 Smarties Gold Medal for Max, the 2003 Kate Greenaway Medal …
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Boori Monty Pryor
Boori Monty Pryor is an indigenous Australian born in Townsville, North Queensland in 1950. His father is from the Birri-gubba Nation of the Bowen region and his mother's tribal group from Yarrabah, near Cairns, is the Kunggandji. Boori has worked in…
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