List of Australian artists
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- Anita Aarons : sculptor
- Harold Abbott : painter
- Ian Abdulla : Ngarrindjeri Australian Aboriginal naive artist
- Jack Absalom : artist, author and adventurer
- Louis Abraham : painter, etcher
- Tate Adams : artist
- Joyce Allan : scientific illustrator
- Micky Allan : photographer
- Beverly Allen, botanical artist
- Davida Allen : painter, film maker 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
- George French Angas : painter
- James Angus : sculptor
- Giulio Anivitti : artist, art teacher, portrait painter and gallery curator
- Douglas Annand : graphic designer and artist
- Jean Appleton : prize-winning painter, printmaker, art teacher
- Silvio Apponyi : German-Australian sculptor
- Howard Arkley : painter of houses, architecture, and suburbia
- Hany Armanious : artist
- Ian Armstrong : painter and printmaker
- 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
- Estelle Asmodelle, abstract artist, musician, and academic
- Mireille Astore : artist, writer and film maker
- 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
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- 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 : 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 print maker
- Dorrit Black : painter, printmaker
- Charles Blackman : landscape artist
- Freya Blackwood : illustrator, special effects artist
- Florence Turner Blake : painter
- Peter Michael Blayney : artist
- Godfrey Blow : artist, founder of the Perth Stuckists
- Elise Blumann : German-born artist who achieved recognition as an Expressionist painter
- Thomas Bock : portraitist
- Wim Boissevain : painter
- Peter Bonner : artist
- Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri : painter
- David Booker : Australian contemporary sculptor
- 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
- Arthur Boyd : portraitist, member of the Boyd artistic dynasty
- 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
- Pat Brassington : photographer, digital artist
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Jane Burton : photographer
- William Bustard : stained glass artist
- Louis Buvelot : Swiss-born landscape painter who emigrated to Australia
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- Nicholas Caire : photographer
- Peter Callas : video artist
- H. H. Calvert : artist
- Cressida Campbell : printmaker
- Joan Campbell : ceramist
- Robert Campbell : painter and gallery director
- Jane Cannan : painter, drawer
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Deanne Cheuk: illustrator, designer, art director
- 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 print maker
- Bree Kristel Clarke: photographer
- Joseph Augustine Clarke : artist, painter, journal illustrator and arts-teacher
- Richard Clements : painter
- James Clifford : 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
- 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
- Virginia Coventry : photographer
- Theodora Cowan : sculptor, painter
- Steve Cox : painter and watercolourist
- 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
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- Ante Dabro : Croatian-born artist/sculptor and art teacher
- Johnnie Dady : installation artist
- Lindsay Daen : New Zealand-born sculptor and artist
- John Dahlsen : contemporary environmental artist
- Richard Daintree : photographer
- Roy Dalgarno : social realist artist
- Anne Dangar : painter, potter
- Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels : performance artist and sculptor
- Alfred James Daplyn : painter
- William Dargie : painter especially of portrait paintings who won the Archibald Prize eight times
- Vicki Darken : landscape painter
- Bessie Davidson : painter
- David Davies : painter
- Edward Davies : architect and arts administrator
- Olive Blanche Davies : botanical illustrator
- Paul Davies : artist
- John Davis : sculptor
- John Davis : artist
- Lawrence Daws : painter and printmaker of watercolour, drawing, screenprints, etchings and monotypes
- Janet Dawson : painter
- Charles Hubert de Castella : Swiss-Australian writer, artist and winemaker
- Geoffrey de Groen : painter of abstract art
- Roy De Maistre : artist who explored the relationship of colour harmony to musical harmony
- Destiny Deacon : photographer
- Andrew Dearman: photographer
- Wolfgang Degenhardt : German-born artist often of religious art
- Dennis Del Favero : artist and academic
- Paul Delprat : painter and illustrator, Principal of the Julian Ashton Art School
- Linda Dement : photographer, digital artist
- Aileen Dent : painter
- Stuart Devlin : artist and metalworker
- William Dexter : English-Australian painter
- Maggie Diaz : photographer
- Robert Dickerson : figurative painter
- Desmond Digby : New Zealand-born stage designer, painter and illustrator of children's books
- Silvester Diggles : artist and musician
- William Dobell : sculptor and painter who won the Archibald Prize three times
- James Dodd : painter, sculptor and street artist
- Ken Done : artist, especially of design work
- Annie Dorrington : painter, flag designer
- Matt Doust : artist, finalist in the 2011 Archibald Prize
- John Dowie : painter, sculptor and teacher
- Julie Dowling : Badimaya Australian artist
- Robert Hawker Dowling : colonial artist
- Marian Drew : photographic artist with Queensland Centre for Photography
- Russell Drysdale : painter of abstract and surrealist art
- William Duke : Irish-born Australian artist
- Slawa Duldig : inventor, artist, interior designer and teacher
- Brian Dunlop : still life and figurative painter
- Frank Dunne : cartoonist
- Max Dupain : photographer
- Elizabeth Durack : Western Australian artist and writer
- Ivan Durrant : painter, performance artist and writer
- Benjamin Duterrau : English painter, etcher, engraver, sculptor and art lecturer who emigrated to Tasmania
- Władysław Dutkiewicz : Polish-born naturalized Australian artist
- Olive Dutton Green : painter
- Geoffrey Dyer : artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2003
- Moya Dyring : painter
- Ambrose Dyson : illustrator and political cartoonist
- Will Dyson : illustrator
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- Augustus Earle : London-born travel artist who spent time painting in Australia
- Stephen Eastaugh : artist
- Lindsay Edward : abstract artist, mosaicist and teacher
- Agnes Edwards : Aboriginal handicraft maker known for feather flowers.
- Margery Edwards : mixed media artist, painter
- Sandy Edwards : photographer
- Bonita Ely : performance artist
- Esther Erlich: figurative painter, winner 1998 Moran prize and 2000 Archibald People's Choice Award
- Joyce Evans : photographer
- Lina Eve : figurative painter, singer/songwriter, photographer, and film maker
- Miles Evergood : artist
- Raymond Boultwood "Ray" Ewers : sculptor
- John Eyre : painter and engraver
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- Facter, aka Fletcher Andersen: street artist/painter
- David Fairbairn : painter and printmaker
- Ian Fairweather : painter who combined western and Asian influences in his work
- Adrian Feint : artist, noted for his bookplate designs
- Susan Fereday : artist, photographer
- Anne Ferran : photographer
- Simon Fieldhouse : painter of architecture with whimsical characters
- George Edmond Finey : New Zealand born artist
- Gerald Fitzgerald : artist
- Paul Desmond Fitzgerald : portrait painter
- Maude Edith Victoria Fleay : painter
- Herbert 'Bert' Flugelman : sculptor
- Paul Foelsche : photographer
- Fiona Foley : indigenous artist from Badtjala
- George Frederick Folingsby : Irish born Australian painter and art educator
- Nicholas Folland : sculptor and arts educator
- Sue Ford, photographer
- Haughton Forrest : artist
- E. Phillips Fox : Naturalist painter
- Ivor Pengelly Francis : artist, art critic and teacher
- Dale Frank : contemporary artist
- Graham Fransella : figurative and abstract painter
- Kristian Fredrikson : New Zealand-born stage and costume designer
- Harold Freedman : artist, renowned for his work in public murals
- Leonard French : painter and stained glass artist
- Zoe Freney: painter, arts writer and arts educator
- Thomas Friedensen : English-born artist in watercolour and oils, active in Australia
- Donald Friend : artist, writer and diarist
- Frederick Frith : English-born painter and photographer
- Douglas Fry : artist, especially of animal paintings
- Ella Fry : painter
- Merrick Fry : artist
- Sam Fullbrook : artist, won the Archibald Prize in 1974
- Florence Fuller : painter
- Albert Henry Fullwood : artist who worked in black and white, oils, and watercolour
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- Kiley Gaffney: performance artist, musician
- Ian Gardiner : artist
- Silvana Gardner: visual artist, writer
- Rosalie Gascoigne : sculptor, primarily of found materials
- Eleanor Gates-Stuart: visual media
- Marea Gazzard : sculptor, ceramist
- Esmond George : SA watercolor artist, World War II war artist and art critic
- Francis Giacco : artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1993–1994
- Geoff Gibbons : printmaker and arts educator
- May Gibbs : English Australian children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist
- Charles Web Gilbert : sculptor
- Jeff Gilberthorpe : English-born artist and art teacher
- Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles : Manyjilyjarra painter
- Harry Pelling Gill : English-born artist and art teacher
- S T Gill : English-born draughtsman, watercolour painter, and photographer
- George Gittoes : war artist using painting, drawing, photographs and video
- Shaun Gladwell : video, performance, painting and sculpture
- James Gleeson : surrealist artist, poet, critic, writer and curator
- Henry Heath "Harry" Glover : English-born artist
- Henry Heath Glover Jr. : artist and lithographer
- John Glover : English/colonial artist
- Duncan Goldfinch : painter
- John Charles Goodchild : painter and art educator
- Agnes Goodsir : portrait painter
- Richard Goodwin : artist, architect and professor of fine arts and design
- Julie Gough : artist, writer and curator
- William Buelow Gould : English painter transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1826
- Peter Gouldthorpe : artist, children's picture book author and illustrator
- James William Govett, impressionist painter
- Peter Benjamin Graham : visual artist, printer, and art theorist
- Peter Sebastian Graham : artist, painter, printmaker and sculptor
- Virginia Grayson : visual artist, winner of the Dobell Drawing Prize
- Sasha Grbich: installation artist
- Denise Green : painter
- Olive Dutton Green : artist
- Rona Green : artist
- Tom Green : painter, printmaker and art teacher
- Victor Greenhalgh : sculptor and teacher
- Francis Greenway : English-born architect
- Guy Grey-Smith : painter, printmaker and ceramicist
- Peter Griffen : abstract artist
- Vaughan Murray Griffin : print maker and painter
- Mabel "May" Grigg : painter
- Henry Gritten : English painter
- Ann Grocott : writer and painter
- Elioth Gruner : New Zealand-born painter, winner of the Wynne Prize seven times
- Rob Gutteridge : English-born painter and arts educator
- Harold Frederick Neville Gye : cartoonist
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- Emma Hack : photographer
- Basil Hadley : born London, UK, arrived to Australia in 1965, printmaker and painter
- Robert Hague : New Zealand-born artist
- Fiona Hall : contemporary visual artist
- Lindsay Bernard Hall : English-born Australian artist and art gallery director
- Deborah Halpern : sculptor, mosaic artist, ceramist
- Stanislav "Stacha" Halpern : Polish Australian painter and sculptor
- Michelle Hamer : tapestry artist
- Lyn Hancock: photographer, writer
- Henry Hanke : artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1934
- Marjorie Hann : South Australian cartoonist, painter and art teacher
- Robert Hannaford : realist artist
- Barbara Hanrahan : artist, printmaker and writer
- Albert J. Hanson : landscape painter in both oil and water-colour
- Nicholas Harding : artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2001
- Lily Nungarrayi Yirringali Jurrah Hargraves : painter
- Pro Hart : father of the Outback painting movement
- Cecil Hartt : cartoonist
- Edmund Arthur Harvey : British-born Australian artist
- Ponch Hawkes : photographer
- Elaine Haxton : painter, printmaker, designer and commercial artist
- Louise Hearman : figurative painter
- Nada Herman-Witkamp, painter
- Ivor Hele : war artist for the Australian War Memorial, five times Archibald Prize winner
- Catherine Jenna Hendry : hyper-realistic, large-scale renderings using a scribbling technique
- Euan Heng : Scottish-born painter and printmaker
- Bill Henson : contemporary photographic artist
- Petr Herel : Czechoslovakia-born printmaker, painter
- Sali Herman : Swiss-born war artists artist
- Bernard Hesling : British-born muralist and painter
- Joy Hester : modernist painter
- Hans Heysen : German painter of watercolours of the bush
- Nora Heysen : artist, winner of the 1938 Archibald Prize for portraiture and the first women appointed as an official war artist
- Dale Hickey : painter and teacher
- J J Hilder : watercolourist from the Heidelberg School
- Charles Hill : engraver, painter and arts educator
- Robin Hill : artist and writer
- Frank Hinder : painter, sculptor and art teacher
- Margel Hinder : Australian-American modernist sculptor
- Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack : German/Australian artist
- Noela Hjorth : artist and builder of houses, known as living sculptures
- Robert Hoddle : surveyor and artist
- Christopher Hodges: artist and art gallery director
- Frank Hodgkinson : war artist
- Rayner Hoff : Isle of Man-born sculptor who lived and worked in Australia
- Robert Hollingworth : painter, video artist, writer, novelist; winner of 1990 Sulman Prize
- Cherry Hood : portraitist, won the 2002 Archibald Prize
- Gordon Hookey : painter, sculptor
- Laurence Hope : artist
- Livingston York Yourtee "Hop" Hopkins : American-born cartoonist
- Chris Horder : won the Young Emerging Artist Award in the 2011 Mosman Art Prize
- Marie Horseman : cartoonist, illustrator, fashion designer
- Henry Leonardus van den Houten : Dutch-Australian painter, lithographer and art teacher
- Valma Howell : painter, actress
- Laurence Hotham Howie : South Australian sculptor, painter, and art teacher
- John Howley : painter
- Frank Hurley : photographer, filmmaker and adventurer
- Polly Hurry : painter
- Margot Hutcheson : British-born painter
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- Nelson Illingworth : English-born sculptor
- Kylie InGold : painter of the fairy and fantasy genre
- Robert Ingpen : graphic designer, illustrator, and author
- Mehwish Iqbal: Pakistani-born painter
- Adelaide Ironside : painter
- Pamela Irving : ceramicist, mosaicist and writer
- Jean Isherwood : painter
- Linde Ivimey : sculptor
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- Kenneth Jack : watercolour painter, and printmaker, member of RWS
- Robert Jacks : painter, sculptor and printmaker
- James R. Jackson : artist, primarily of Sydney harbor
- Roy Jackson : artist
- Lionel Jago : artist
- Ann James : children's book illustrator, graphic designer
- Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher James : ceramicist, painter and textile artist, Aboriginal artist
- Gil Jamieson : painter of figurative art works, landscape art works, and portraits
- Bob Jenyns : humorous and figurative sculpture, painting, drawing and prints
- Natalie Jeremijenko : installation artist
- Carol Jerrems : photographer
- Clytie Jessop : artist, actress, screenwriter and director
- Guo Jian : painter, sculptor, photographer
- Natasha Johns-Messenger: installation artist, photographer
- George Johnson : painter of modernist art, especially geometric abstraction
- Roger Kirk Hayes Johnson : architect, planner, potter, painter, sculptor, writer and educator
- Anne Jolliffe : animator
- Eric Jolliffe, Australian cartoonist and illustrator on outback themes
- Henry Jones : photographer
- Joe Jonsson : Swedish-born cartoonist
- Justus Jorgensen : artist and architect
- Ellen Jose : photographer, printmaker
- Anne Judell : artist, winner of the 2011 Dobell Prize
- Robert Juniper : illustrator, art teacher, sculptor and printmaker
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- Louis Kahan : artist born in Vienna who won the Archibald Prize in 1962
- Kitty Kantilla : painter, printmaker, sculptor
- Shokufeh Kavani : Iranian-born painter
- Barry Kay : stage and costume designer
- Hanna Kay: Israeli-born painter
- Jennifer Keeler-Milne : painter, drawer
- Anwen Keeling : portrait painter
- David Keeling : artist
- John Kelly : artist
- Rik Kemp
- Roger Kemp : artist, especially of transcendental abstraction
- Franz Kempf
- Tjungkara Ken : painter
- Caroline Kennedy-McCracken : musician, painter, sculptor
- Rachel Khedoori : painter, sculptor
- Toba Khedoori : mixed media painter
- Patrick Kilvington : artist of musters, round-ups and horses in motion
- Grahame King : master printmaker
- Inge King : German-born sculptor
- Leah King-Smith : photographer
- Anita Klein : painter, printmaker
- Robert Klippel : sculptor
- Anastasia Klose : performance artist, installation artist
- Michael Kmit : Ukrainian painter who spent twenty-five years in Australia and died in Sydney
- Sue Kneebone: artist and arts educator
- Emily Kngwarreye : Aboriginal artist from the Utopia community
- William Dunn Knox : painter, member of the Victorian Artists Society
- Lisette Kohlhagen : painter
- Theo Koning : Dutch-born Western Australian painter, sculptor, printmaker and art teacher
- Derek Kreckler : multi-media visual artist
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- Vida Lahey : painter
- Rosemary Laing : photographer
- George Lambert : artist of portrait paintings and war artist
- Pat Larter : mail artist, photographer, performance artist, painter
- Richard Larter : painter, often identified as one of Australia's few highly recognisable pop artists
- David Larwill : artist
- Janet Laurence : mixed media artist, installation artist
- Peter Laverty : painter, print maker, art educator and gallery director
- George Lawrence : painter in the impressionist style
- Donald Laycock : painter
- Sam Leach : figurative painter, winner of 2010 Archibald Prize and Wynne Prize
- Alun Leach-Jones : painter, sculptor, printmaker
- Bill Leak : cartoonist and painter
- Percy Leason : cartoonist, painter
- Derwent Lees : landscape painter
- Laurence Le Guay : photographer
- Fred Leist : muralist and war artist
- Kerrie Lester : artist
- Michael Leunig : cartoonist, poet and cultural commentator
- Margo Lewers : interdisciplinary abstract artist
- John Lewin : English-born artist of natural history, active in Australia
- Wilbraham Frederick Evelyn Liardet : hotelier, water-colour artist and historian
- Ash Lieb : digital artist, painter and writer
- Colonel William Light : British naval and army officer and a painter, the first Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia
- Peter Lik : fine art photographer
- Kevin Lincoln : artist
- Daryl Lindsay : sketcher, illustrator, and art critic
- Joan Lindsay : author
- Lionel Lindsay : artist specializing in etching and engraving
- Norman Lindsay : sculptor, writer, editorial cartoonist and scale modeler
- Percy Lindsay : landscape painter, illustrator and cartoonist
- Ruby Lindsay : illustrator, painter
- Anthony Lister : artist specializing in street art, expressionism, and pop art
- W. Lister Lister : painter, won the Wynne Prize seven times
- Norman Lloyd : landscape painter
- Tony Lloyd : figurative painter
- Leonard Long : painter
- Sydney Long : painter, etcher, and teacher
- John Longstaff : painter, war artist and a five-time winner of the Archibald Prize
- Will Longstaff : painter and war artist
- Keith Looby : artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1984
- Loongkoonan : painter, Aboriginal elder
- Steve Lopes : figurative painter
- Josh Lord : artist specializing in acrylic house paint
- Gretta Louw : interdisciplinary artist working across digital media, installation, drawing, and textiles
- Fiona Lowry : painter
- Joseph Lycett : English-born portrait and miniature painter, active in Australia
- Elwyn Lynn : artist, author, art critic and curator
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- Andrew MacCormac : portrait painter
- Stewart Angus MacFarlane : figurative painter
- Norman Macgeorge : artist and art critic
- William Priestly MacIntosh : sculptor
- Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal : sculptor and medallist
- Chips Mackinolty : artist printmaking and journalist
- Euan MacLeod : New Zealand artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1999
- William Macleod : artist and a partner in The Bulletin
- Matthew James MacNally : watercolourist
- Mary Macqueen : printmaker, mixed media artist
- Bea Maddock : artist combining printing with encaustic painting and installation art
- Guy Maestri : painter, winner of 2009 Archibald Prize
- Ma Mahood : painter, ceramist, printmaker
- Jeffrey Makin : artist, art critic, and Director of Port Jackson Press Australia
- David Malangi : bark painter, printmaker, carver, designer
- Henri Mallard : photographer
- Gillian Mann : printmaker
- Diane Mantzaris, digital artist, printmaker
- Paul Margocsy : watercolourist
- Banduk Marika : Indigenous Australian artist and printmaker
- Wandjuk Marika : contemporary Indigenous Australian artist, actor, composer and land rights activist
- Stella Marks : best known as a portrait miniaturist
- Claude Marquet : political cartoonist
- Conrad Martens : English-born landscape artist active in Australia
- Monte Masi : performance-based video artist
- John Mather : Scottish-Australian plein-air painter and etcher
- John Baxter Mather : Scottish-Australian journalist, newspaper proprietor, landscape painter and art critic
- John Mawurndjul : indigenous artist in a traditional painting technique rarrk
- William James Maxwell : Scottish-born sculptor
- Ursula Mayer : multimedia artist based in London
- Daphne Mayo : sculptor
- Kathleen McArthur : botanical illustrator, environmentalist, naturalist
- Herbert McClintock : social realist artist
- Francis McComas : Australian-born artist who spent most of his adult life in California
- Georgiana McCrae : painter, diarist
- Frederick McCubbin : painter of the Heidelberg School
- Alan McLeod McCulloch : art historian and gallery director, cartoonist, and painter
- Francine McDougall: filmmaker, photographer
- Raymond McGrath : architect, illustrator, printmaker and interior designer
- William Beckwith McInnes : portrait painter, winner of the Archibald Prize seven times
- Arthur McIntyre : artist and art critic
- Alexander McKenzie : painter, a six times finalist of the Archibald Prize
- Queenie McKenzie : painter
- Tommy McRae : artist
- Clement Meadmore : Australian-American sculptor known for massive outdoor steel sculptures
- Penny Meagher : painter
- Lilian Marguerite Medland : illustrator, painter
- Charles Meere : English-Australian artist
- Dora Meeson : painter
- Annemieke Mein : Dutch-born textile artist
- Max Meldrum : painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1939 and 1940
- Mortimer Luddington Menpes : Australian-born artist, author, printmaker and illustrator
- Mary Cockburn Mercer : painter
- Louisa Anne Meredith : Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator, also known as Louisa Anne Twamley
- Bertha Merfield : painter and muralist
- Vladas Meskenas : Sydney painter, born in Lithuania
- Bill Meyer : artist who uses photography, film and music in his work
- mez : Australian-based Internet artist
- Margaret Michaelis-Sachs : Polish-born photographer
- Rodney Armour "Rod" Milgate : painter and playwright
- Lewis Miller : painter and visual artist, known for his portraits and figurative works, winner of 1998 Archibald Prize
- Peter Milne : photographer and visual artist, known for documenting the Melbourne punk and comedy scenes in the 1970s and 80s
- Benjamin Edwin Minns : watercolourist
- Harold "Hal" Missingham : Australian artist, Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1945 to 1971, and president of the Australian Watercolour Institute from 1952 to 1955
- Jan Mitchell : painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker
- Robert Boyed Mitchell : abstract expressionist artist
- Joanne Mitchelson : painter
- Tracey Moffat : artist using primarily photography and video
- Ernest Edward Moffitt : artist
- George Molnar : Hungarian-Australian cartoonist
- Jon Molvig : expressionist artist
- Reg Mombassa : New Zealand-born artist and musician
- Milton Moon : potter, teacher and author
- Alan Moore : war artist
- David Moore : photographer and photojournalist.
- May and Mina Moore : photographers
- Mirka Mora : French-born painter, sculptor, mosaic artist
- Harriet Morgan : natural history illustrator
- Sally Morgan : Aboriginal author, scriptwriter and contemporary Indigenous Australian artist
- George Pitt Morison : painter and engraver
- Ethel Jackson Morris : illustrator
- Christine Morrow : British-born visual artist
- Grant Mudford : photographer
- Sally M. Nangala Mulda : artist
- Patricia Mullins : children's book illustrator
- Ginger Riley Munduwalawala : contemporary artist
- Arthur Murch : painter, winner of the Archibald Prize in 1949
- Wendy Murray : print maker, painter, arts educator
- Vali Myers : artist who specialized in fine pen and ink drawings
- Patricia Moran : painter
- Bruce Munro : dual nationality, primary medium light
- Tanya Myshkin : printmaker
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- Bardayal 'Lofty' Nadjamerrek : painter
- Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri : painter
- Albert Namatjira : Indigenous Australian artist
- Rosella Namok : Indigenous Australian artist
- Eubena Nampitjin : painter, teacher
- Frank Arthur Nankivell : artist and political cartoonist
- Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri : painter
- Molly Jugadai Napaltjarri : painter
- Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri : painter
- Tjunkiya Napaltjarri : painter
- Wintjiya Napaltjarri : painter
- Makinti Napanangka : indigenous Australian artist
- Dorothy Napangardi : painter
- Lily Kelly Napangardi : painter
- Yalti Napangati : painter
- Simeon Nelson : sculptor and transdisciplinary artist
- Girolamo Nerli
- Norie Neumark: American-born sound artist
- Albert Ernest Newbury : landscape and portrait painter
- Ann Newmarch : painter, printmaker, sculptor
- Helmut Newton : German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women
- June Newton : photographer, actress
- Paul Newton : portrait artist who has twice won the Archibald Prize
- Hilda Rix Nicholas : painter
- Peter Nicholson : political cartoonist, caricaturist and sculptor
- Deborah Niland
- Kilmeny Niland
- Sandro Nocentini : painter
- Sidney Nolan : painter and printmaker
- Elizabeth May Norriss, later Bess Norriss Tait : artist
- James Northfield : graphic artist
- Rosaleen Norton : painter, occultist
- Naata Nungurrayi : artist
- Charles Nuttall : artist noted for his illustrations
- Lena Nyadbi : painter, installation artist
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- Carla O'Brien: installation artist
- Kathleen O'Brien : comic artist, illustrator, fashion artist
- Kathleen O'Connor : New Zealand-born painter
- Gabby O'Connor: New Zealand-based installation artist
- Peter O'Doherty : musician and artist specializing in still life and suburbia
- Edward Officer : painter, Australian Art Association inaugural president
- John Armstrong Ogburn : painter.
- Pixie O'Harris : Welsh-born illustrator, cartoonist, painter, author
- Dorothea "Dora" Adela Ohlfsen-Bagge : pianist, painter, sculptor, spy and particularly a medallist
- Bronwyn Oliver : sculptor
- Margaret Olley : painter specializing in still life
- Bernard Ollis : contemporary painter
- John Olsen : landscape painter who won the Archibald Prize in 2005
- Lin Onus : Scottish–Koori Aboriginal artist
- Rosemary Opala : illustrator, writer, nurse
- Desiderius Orban : Hungarian-Australian painter, printmaker and teacher
- Christopher Orchard : artist and arts educator
- Mandy Ord : comic artist
- George Cross Thomas Orr : watercolourist
- Jill Orr : performance artist, photographer, installation artist
- Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski : Polish-Australian artist best known for his ground-breaking work in chromasonics, laser kinetics and 'sound and image' productions
- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite : children's book illustrator
- Robert Owen : artist and curator
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- Josonia Palaitis: artist
- Wendy Paramor : artist
- Trent Parke : photographer
- Lenton Parr : sculptor and teacher
- Mike Parr : performance artist and printmaker
- Allyson Parsons : Australian landscape artist
- Peter Parsons : ceramic artist
- John Passmore : abstract expressionist painter
- Klytie Pate : studio potter
- John Ford Paterson : Scottish-born Australian artist
- Ambrose McCarthy Patterson : painter and printmaker
- Frances Wildt Pavlu : art jeweller
- John Peart
- Tom Peerless : artist
- John Perceval : artist of drawings, paintings, and ceramics
- Stieg Persson : contemporary painter
- Bruce Petty : political satirist and cartoonist
- Gloria Petyarre : contemporary Indigenous Australian artist
- Jeanna Petyarre : painter
- Kathleen Petyarre : painter
- Nancy Petyarre : contemporary Indigenous Australian artist
- Debra Phillips : photographer, sculptor
- Patricia Piccinini : mixed-media artist
- Shane Pickett : Nyoongar artist
- William Edwin Pidgeon : painter who won the Archibald Prize three times
- Julianne Pierce: new media artist, curator, art critic
- Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, ceramist
- W. C. Piguenit : landscape painter
- Anne Pincus : painter, sculptor
- Carl Plate : painter, collage artist, sculptor, printmaker
- Evert Ploeg : portrait painter
- Terrance Plowright : contemporary and figurative sculptor
- Axel Poignant : photographer
- Leon Pole : artist associated with the Heidelberg School
- Rodney Pople : artist
- Pietro Porcelli : Italian-born sculptor
- Port Jackson Painter : plant and animal watercolour artist
- Harold Septimus Power : artist
- Dr John Joseph Wardell Power : Modernist artist
- Cedar Prest : stained glass artist
- Margaret Preston : modernist painter and printmaker
- Reg Preston : potter
- Thea Proctor : portrait painter and printmaker
- Geoffrey Proud : artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1990
- John Skinner Prout : English-born painter of lithographs, watercolours and oils
- Oswald Pryor : cartoonist
- Clifton Pugh : painter of landscapes and portraiture
- Shirley Purdie : contemporary Indigenous Australian artist
- Peter Purves Smith : painter
- Minnie Pwerle : contemporary Indigenous Australian artist
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- Ben Quilty : portrait painter and war artist, winner of 2011 Archibald Prize
- James Peter Quinn : portrait painter
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- Melinda Rackham : sculptor and Internet artist
- John Radecki : stained glass artist working in Australia
- Isobel "Iso" Rae : impressionist painter
- John Rae : administrator, painter and author
- Hugh Ramsay : artist
- Richard John Randall : artist
- David Rankin : New York-based painter
- Stanislav Rapotec AM : artist
- Henry Rayner : Australian artist known for his drypoint etchings
- Norma Redpath OBE : painter and sculptor
- Richard Read Sr. : was a British-born artist who was sent to Australia as a convict.
- Lloyd Rees : landscape painter
- Alison Baily Rehfisch : painter
- Virgil Reilly : cartoonist, comic book artist and illustrator
- Susan Respinger : Perth based artist
- Gladys Reynell : one of South Australia's earliest potters
- Jon Rhodes : photographer
- Geoffrey Ricardo : artist, printmaker and sculptor
- Charles Douglas Richardson : Victorian sculptor and painter
- William Ricketts : potter and sculptor of the arts and crafts movement
- John Rigby : painter of tropical and bush landscapes, genre works and portraits
- Paul Crispin Rigby AM : cartoonist
- Michael Riley : photographer, documentary filmmaker
- Ginger Riley Munduwalawala : painter
- Hilda Rix Nicholas : conservative post-impressionist painter
- Douglas Roberts : painter and art critic
- Ian Roberts : bird and native vegetation painter
- Tom Roberts : artist and a member of the Heidelberg School
- Lynne Roberts-Goodwin : photographer, video and installation artist
- Freda Rhoda Robertshaw : artist
- Ronald Charles Robertson-Swann OAM : sculptor
- Julia Robinson : sculptor
- William Robinson : painter and lithographer
- Charles Rodius : German-born artist, printmaker and architect
- Florence Aline Rodway : artist best known for her portraits
- Lisa Roet : artist
- Andrew Rogers : sculptor and land artist
- Robert Rooney : artist and art critic
- Herbert Rose : painter and etcher
- Daisy Mary Rossi : artist, interior designer and writer
- Dick Roughsey : painter
- Ellis Rowan : naturalist and illustrator
- Julie Rrap : contemporary artist
- Dattilo Rubbo : Italian-born artist and art teacher
- Craig Ruddy : painter of portraits, nudes and self studies, winner of 2004 Archibald Prize
- James Newton Russell AM MBE : cartoonist
- John Peter Russell : impressionist painter
- Robert Russell : architect and surveyor
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- Jenny Sages : Chinese-born painter, freelance writer, and illustrator
- Loudon Sainthill : artist and stage and costume designer
- William Arthur Salmon : painter
- Tom Samek : Czech-born muralist
- Gareth Sansom : artist, painter, printmaker and collagist
- Hugh Sawrey : landscape artist and stockman
- Jan Hendrik Scheltema : Dutch-born landscape and livestock painter.
- Jörg Schmeisser : painter, printmaker and art teacher
- Joyce Scott : drawing, oil painting and ceramics
- Montague Scott : artist
- Ken Searle : artist
- Udo Sellbach : artist, printmaker and art teacher
- Gert Sellheim : German-Australian artist who won the Sulman Prize in 1939
- Jan Senbergs : artist and printmaker
- Dora Serle : painter
- Peter Serwan : artist and teacher
- Rebecca Shanahan: artist
- Martin Sharp : artist, underground cartoonist, songwriter and filmmaker
- Peter Sharp : specialises in drawing
- Raelene Sharp : portrait painter Archibald Prize Packing Room Winner 2012
- Wendy Sharpe : portraitist and war artist
- Gary Shead : artist and filmmaker who won the Archibald Prize in 1992–1993
- Ben Shearer : artist who specialises in watercolour painting of the Outback
- Shen Jiawei : Chinese Australian painter and winner of the 2006 Sir John Sulman Prize
- Kathleen Shillam AM : English-born sculptor
- Leonard George Shillam AM : sculptor
- Heather Shimmen : artist, printmaker
- John Shirlow : artist
- Athol Shmith : studio portrait and fashion photographer and photography educator
- Ivy Shore : painter, winner of Portia Geach Memorial Award
- Andrew Sibley : English-born artist
- Allan F. Sierp : artist and author
- Wolfgang Sievers : photographer who specialised in architectural and industrial photography
- Achille Simonetti : Italian-born sculptor
- Norah Simpson : modernist painter
- Darren Siwes : photographer, painter
- Rein Slagmolen : Dutch-Australian artist and sculptor
- Matthew Sleeth visual artist and filmmaker
- Jeffrey Smart : painter, known for his modernist depictions of urban landscapes
- Sally Smart : known for her large-scale assemblage installations that address gender and identity politics
- Tony Smibert : painter who specialises in watercolour painting
- Bernard Smith : art historian, art critic and academic
- Eric Smith : portraitist
- Grace Cossington Smith : artist and pioneer of modernist painting
- Joshua Smith : artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1944
- Mervyn Ashmore Smith OAM : artist
- Lance Solomon : painter, noted for his landscapes
- David Henry Souter : artist and journalist
- Clara Southern : painter
- Percy Spence : artist
- John Spooner : journalist and illustrator
- Ethel Spowers : artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art
- William Stanford : sculptor
- Stelarc : performance artist
- Ronald Steuart : watercolourist
- Paddy Japaljarri Stewart : indigenous artist from Mungapunju
- Constance Stokes : figurative painter
- Margaret Stones AM MBE : botanical illustrator
- Tim Storrier : Australian landscape painter, winner of 2012 Archibald Prize
- David Edgar Strachan : painter, printmaker and teacher
- George Strafford : artist and engraver
- Arthur Streeton : landscape painter
- Mark Strizic : Croatian-Australian photographer and artist
- William Strutt : English-born artist of figurative and history paintings
- Douglas Stubbs : artist
- Reginald Sturgess : artist
- Charles Summers : English-born sculptor, creator of the memorial to the explorers Burke and Wills
- Jane Sutherland : landscape painter
- Ruth Sutherland : Australian painter and art critic
- Chern’ee Sutton : Australian painter, known for her colourful 3D painting style.
- Roger Swainston : painter, naturalist and zoologist specialising in works of the underwater world
- Ricky Swallow : sculptor
- Estelle Mary Sweatman : painter
- Eveline Syme : artist associated with the Grosvenor School of Modern Art
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- Laurens Tan : multidisciplinary artist
- Ronald Peter Tandberg : illustrator and political cartoonist
- Les Tanner : cartoonist and journalist
- Howard Taylor AM : painter, potter, graphic artist and teacher of art
- Violet Teague : artist, noted for her painting and printmaking
- Henri Tebbitt : English-Australian painter
- Kathy Temin : artist who uses synthetic fur to create sculptural objects and installations
- Arlene Textaqueen : works on paper with felt-tip marker pens
- Eric Thake : surrealist artist
- Harold Thomas : artist and activist
- Margaret Thomas : English-born Australian travel writer, poet and artist
- Rover Thomas : one of two Aboriginal Australians to exhibit in the Venice Biennale in 1990, alongside Trevor Nickolls
- Christian Thompson : artist
- Nigel Thomson : artist of satirical paintings of society
- Mark Threadgold : painter
- Imants Tillers : visual art artist, curator and writer
- Freddie Timms : painter
- Richard Kelly Tipping : poet and artist working between image and language
- Kaapa Mbitjana Tjampitjinpa : painter
- Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri : painter, Aboriginal artist
- Whiskey Tjukangku : artist
- Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula
- Aida Tomescu : contemporary artist
- Mary Tonkin : artist, winner of the 2002 Dobell Prize
- Jessie Constance Alicia Traill : print maker
- Percy Trezise AM : pilot, painter, explorer and writer
- J. W. Tristram : artist
- Zoja Trofimiuk : printmaker and sculptor, especially cast glass
- Marie Tuck : artist and art educator
- Ruth Tuck OAM : modernist painter
- Albert Tucker : Expressionist painter
- Tudor St George Tucker : painter
- Tony Tuckson : war-time pilot turned abstract expressionist painter
- Peter Tully : jeweller, designer and artistic director
- James Alfred Turner : painter
- Isabel May Tweddle : painter
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- Hossein Valamanesh : painter
- Irene Van Dorssen contemporary and mixed media artist
- Henri Benedictus van Raalte : known as H. van Raalte, English-born artist and printmaker
- Jacques van Rees : Dutch-born painter
- Danila Vassilieff : Russian-born painter and sculptor
- John Vickery : artist
- Julie Elizabeth Agnes Vieusseux : painter and educator
- Alfred James Vincent : cartoonist
- Eugene von Guerard : Austrian-born painter of landscapes active in Australia
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- Robert Wade : watercolour artist
- David Wadelton : artist
- Thomas Wainewright : English author, serial killer, forger and painter transported to Van Dieman's Land
- Roland Wakelin : New Zealand-born painter and teacher
- Megan Walch : painter
- John Walker : English-born painter and printmaker producing native Oceanic art
- Rose A. Walker : painter and miniaturist
- Stephen Walker : sculptor
- Robin Wallace-Crabbe : curator, literary reviewer, cartoonist, illustrator, book designer, publisher and a commenter on art
- Mervyn Napier Waller CMG OBE : muralist, mosaicist and painter in stained glass and other media
- Wes Walters : realist portrait painter and abstract artist
- Ania Walwicz : poet, prose writer, and visual artist
- Guy Warren : painter who won the Archibald Prize in 1985
- Sera Waters : textile artist, arts writer and arts educator
- Thomas Watling : painter and illustrator
- Jennifer Watson : artist known for her paintings that combine text and images
- Judy Watson : artist
- Judy Napangardi Watson : painter
- Tommy Watson : painter
- James Laurence Watts : sculptor
- Peter Wegner : New Zealand born figurative painter, sculptor, and draughtsman
- Barbara Weir : painter
- William Westall : English-born landscape and botanical artist
- Bryan Westwood : portrait artist who won the Archibald Prize twice
- Charles Wheeler : painter who won the Archibald Prize in 1933
- George Whinnen : painter
- Kaylene Whiskey : artist
- Anthony White : painter
- Cecil John White : New Zealand born cartoonist, known under the pen name Unk White
- James White : sculptor, winner of the Wynne Prize in 1902
- Susan Dorothea White : painter, sculptor, printmaker, author
- Brett Whiteley : prolific, multi-award-winning painter
- James V Wigley : painter of Aboriginal camp scenes and desert landscapes
- Leslie Wilkie : artist, curator, and member of Victorian Artists Society
- Fred Williams : painter and printmaker
- Jan Williamson: award-winning portraitist
- Marcus Wills : painter, winner of 2006 Archibald Prize
- Dora Wilson : British-born artist, best known for etchings and street scenes
- Eric Wilson : painter
- Shaun Wilson : artist, film maker, academic, teacher, and curator
- William Hardy Wilson : architect, artist and author
- Henry Winkles
- Walter Withers : landscape artist and a member of the Heidelberg School of impressionists
- Noel Wood : painter
- Rex Wood : artist who lived for many years in Portugal
- Robert Raymond Woodward AM : architect and fountain designer
- John Christie Wright : sculptor
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- Ah Xian : Chinese born artist
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- Paji Honeychild Yankarr : painter
- Yirawala : painter
- John Zerunge Young : Hong Kong-born Australian artist
- Blamire Young : artist
- William Young : artist
- Gulumbu Yunupingu : Australian Aboriginal artist and women's leader from the Yolngu people
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- Anne Zahalka : photographer
- Michael Zavros : artist
- Victor Zelman : painter and etcher
- Hongbin Zhao : Shanghai born artist
- Teisutis 'Joe' Zikaras : Lithuanian-born sculptor
- Salvatore Zofrea : Italian-born painter of literary, historical and religious sources