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 Prue Acton (born 1943), fashion designer, painter Yilpi Adamson (born 1954), textile artist, painter Hoda Afshar (born 1983), Iranian born, photographer 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, watercolourist Edith Alsop (1871–1958), painter Edith Susan Gerard Anderson (1880–1961), painter, artist's model, writer Ethel Anderson (1883–1958), painter and writer Daisy Andrews (c. 1934/1935–2015), painter Jean Appleton (1911–2003), painter, print maker Jean Baptiste Apuatimi (1940–2013), painter Kerry Argent (born 1960), illustrator Elizabeth Armstrong (1859–1930), painter Alison Marjorie Ashby (1901–1987), botanical artist Olive Ashworth (1915–2000), artist, textile designer, photographer Cristina Asquith Baker (1868–1960), painter, print maker Louisa Atkinson (1834–1872), illustrator, botanist, writer Yvonne Audette (born 1930), painter Australian poster collectives, 1960s, 70s and 80s, women were leaders in the poster collective movement Narelle Autio (born 1969), photographer
B Jeannie Baker (born 1950), British-born author and illustrator 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 Jenny Bannister (born 1954), fashion designer Shirley Barber (1935–2023), author and illustrator Irene Barberis (born 1953), English-born painter, installation artist, drawer Agnes Barker (1907–2008), potter, craftworker Caroline Barker (1894–1988), painter Elsie Barlow (1876–1948), painter, printmaker Gwen Barringer (1882–1960), watercolourist Ethel Barringer (1883–1925), etcher Nadia Bartel (born 1985), fashion designer Del Kathryn Barton (born 1972), painter Margaret Francis Ellen Baskerville (1861–1930), sculptor, painter Zara Bate (1909–1989), fashion designer Clarice Beckett (1887–1935), painter Bianca Beetson, sculptor, painter, installation artist, photographer, ceramist Dianne Beevers (born 1946), painter, printmaker, jeweller Clare Belfrage (born 1966), glass artist Eugenie Keefer Bell (born 1951), jewellery designer, maker Lisa Bellear (1961–2006), photographer, poet, dramatist, comedian Jean Bellette (1908–1991), painter Allana Beltran, performance artist Charmaine Bennell (fl 2000s), illustrator Jane Bennett (born 1960), painter Portia Mary Bennett (1898–1989), painter Eva Benson (1875–1949), sculptor Danelle Bergstrom (born 1957), painter Martha Berkeley (1813–1899), painter Lauren Berkowitz (born 1965), painter Dorothy Berry (born 1942), pastel artist Moira Bertram (1929–?), comic artist, illustrator Susan Betts, artist and illustrator Kate Beynon (born 1970), Hong Kong born, painter Annette Bezor (1950–2020), painter Vivienne Binns (1940–2026), painter Rowena Birkett (1860–1915), scientific illustrator and artist Karna Maria Birmingham (1900–1987), painter, illustrator and print maker Dorrit Black (1891–1951), painter, printmaker Freya Blackwood (born 1975), illustrator, special effects artist Florence Turner Blake (1873–1959), painter Susannah Blaxill (1954–2025), botanical artist Elise Blumann (1897–1990), painter Yvonne Boag (born 1954), painter Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative (1987–), founded by ten Aboriginal artists, six of whom are women 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 Paula Bossio (fl 2000), illustrator G. W. Bot (born 1954), printmaker, sculptor, painter, graphic artist Penny Bovell (born 1956), painter, art historian Stella Bowen (1893–1947), painter Violet Bowring (1890–1980), painter and miniaturist Doris Boyd (1888–1960), painter, ceramist Edith Susan Boyd (1880–1961), painter and dramatist Emma Minnie Boyd (1858–1936), painter Yvonne Boyd artist (1920–2013), art patron, and philanthropist Tega Brain (fl 2012), digital artist Joan Brassil (1919–2005), installation artist 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, installation artist Florence Broadhurst (1899–1977), painter, fabric and wallpaper designer Anmanari Brown, painter Nyuju Stumpy Brown (1924–2011), indigenous painter Janet Burchill (born 1955), contemporary artist, multiple disciplines Lina Bryans (1909–2000), painter Norma Bull (1906–1980), painter, printmaker, etcher Frances Mary Burke (1904–1994), textile designer Jane Burton (born 1966), photographer Jessamine Buxton (1895–1966), painter and sculptor
C Enid Cambridge (1903–1976), artist and art teacher Barbara Campbell (born 1961), performance and installation artist Marrianne Collinson Campbell (1827–1903), botanical illustrator and diarist Cressida Campbell (born 1960), printmaker Joan Campbell (1925–1997), ceramist Jane Cannan (1822–1861), painter, drawer Frances Cannon (born 1992), painter, drawer María Fernanda Cardoso (born 1963), installation artist Ethel Carrick (1872–1952), painter Milyika Carroll (born 1958), Aboriginal artist Karen Casey (1856–2021), interdisciplinary Palawa artist Maie Casey, Baroness Casey (1892–1983), painter, illustrator Judy Cassab (1920–2015), Austrian-born painter Alex Cearns, photographer Queenie Chan (born 1980), Hong Kong-born comic artist Alice Chapman (1860–1929), painter Dora Chapman (1911–1995), painter, silk-screen printer, potter and art teacher Evelyn Chapman (1888–1961), painter Susien Chong (fl 2000s), fashion designer Connie Christie (1908–1989), children's writer/illustrator, photographer and commercial artist Julia Church (born 1959), painter, printmaker, graphic designer Betty Churcher (1931–2015), painter and arts administrator Margaret Cilento (1923–2006), painter, printmaker Bree Kristel Clarke, photographer Maree Clarke (born 1961), Aboriginal artist Sarah-Jane Clarke (fl 1999), fashion designer Lorna Jane Clarkson (born 1964), fashion designer Thelma Clune (1900–1992), sculptor, painter Densey Clyne (1922–2019), Welsh-born photographer, naturalist, writer Elaine Coghlan (1897–1989), painter, print maker Kay Cohen (born 1952), fashion designer Ola Cohn (1892–1964), sculptor Bindi Cole (born 1975), photographer, video artist, installation artist Amalie Sara Colquhoun (1894–1974), painter, stained glass artist Sarah Contos, artist, installation artist Sylvia Convey (born 1948), Latvian-born painter and print maker Justine Cooper (born 1968), animator, video artist, photographer Jenny Coopes (born 1945), cartoonist Megan Cope (born 1982), Aboriginal artist, sculptor, video artist Yvette Coppersmith (born 1980), painter Edith Corbet (1846–1920), landscape painter Olive Cotton (1911–2003), photographer Virginia Coventry (born 1942), photographer Theodora Cowan (1868–1949), sculptor, painter Grace Cossington Smith (1892–1984), painter, illustrator Sybil Craig (1901–1989), painter Keri Craig-Lee (born 1958), fashion designer Brenda L Croft (born 1964), artist, curator, writer, educator Peggie Crombie (1901–1984), modernist painter Grace Crowley (1890–1979), painter Cecily Crozier (1911–2006), artist, poet, literary editor Philippa Cullen (1950–1975), performance artist Janet Cumbrae Stewart (1883–1960), painter Elisabeth Cummings (born 1934), painter Nici Cumpston (born 1963), painter, photographer Virginia Cuppaidge (born 1943), contemporary abstract expressionist painter Dagmar Evelyn Cyrulla (fl 1988), painter
D Anne Dangar (1885–1951), painter, potter Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels (1936–2004), painter Beatrice Darbyshire (1901–1988), artist, printmaker Vicki Darken (1923–2014), landscape painter Liz Davenport (born 1945), fashion designer Malpiya Davey (fl 2000s), aboriginal ceramist Bessie Davidson (1879–1965), painter Olive Blanche Davies (1884–1976), botanical illustrator Pulpurru Davies (born 1940s), aboriginal artist Debra Dawes (born 1955), painter Janet Dawson (born 1935), painter eX De Medici (born 1959), visual artist Destiny Deacon (1957–2024), photographer Rachel Dean (fl 2010), fashion designer Una Deerbon (1882–1972), potter Linda Dement (born 1960), photographer, digital artist Aileen Dent (1890–1978), painter Maggie Diaz (1925–2016), photographer Karla Dickens (born 1967), installation artist Dorothy Djukulul (born 1942), painter and installation artist Rosemary Dobson (1920–2012), illustrator Margaret Dodd (born 1941), artist who works in ceramics and film/video Shay Docking (1928–1998), landscape drawing Annie Dorrington (1866–1926), painter, flag designer Mel Douglas (born 1978), glass artist Margaret Dredge (1928–2001), painter, print maker Pippin Drysdale (born 1943), ceramist Slawa Duldig (1901–1975), painter, interior designer Lesley Dumbrell (born 1941), abstract painter Jan Dunn (1940–2002), ceramicist, potter, teacher 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 Helen Eager (born 1952), painter, printmaker Leona Edmiston (fl 2001), fashion designer Margery Edwards (1933–1989), mixed media artist, painter Pip Edwards (born 1980), fashion designer Mary Edwell-Burke (1894–1988), painter Bernice E. Edwell (1880–1962), painter Sharyn Egan (born 1957), painter, sculptor, weaver Mireille Eid (Astore) (born 1961), Lebanese-born photographer, sculptor, performance artist, writer Frances Dolina Ellis (1900–1971), artist, printmaker, teacher Bonita Ely (born 1946), performance artist Patricia Englund (1922–2004), painter and potter Esther Erlich (born 1955), painter Jessie Lavington Evans (1860–1943), painter Joyce Evans (1929–2019), photographer Megan Evans (fl 2000s), interdisciplinary artist Mary Alice Evatt (1898–1973), painter, arts patron Lina Eve (born 1946), painter, photographer, filmmaker, singer Joyce Vera Mary Ewart (1916–1964), painter, graphic artist, teacher
F Cherine Fahd (born 1974), photography, video performance Cecily Lydia Fearnley (1925–2022), scientific illustrator, columnist and naturalist Mary Featherston (born 1943), interior designer, furniture designer, children's play and learning designer Myra Felton (1835–1920), photographer and oil painter Anne Ferran (born 1949), photographer Susan Fereday (1810–1878), botanical artist Susan Fereday (born 1959), photographer, installation artist Tania Ferrier (born 1958), painter, installation artist, feminist fashion Claire Field (fl 2010s), visual artist, curator Janet Fieldhouse (born 1971), ceramic artist Mary Finnin (1906–1992), painter and poet Flamingo Park Frock Salon (1973–1992), Jenny Kee, Linda Jackson, fashion designers Maude Edith Victoria Fleay (1869–1965), wildlife painter Rosie Nangala Fleming (1928–2015), painter Emily Floyd (born 1972), public artist, sculptor, printmaker Fiona Foley (born 1964), painter, printmaker, photographer, sculptor, installation artist Sue Ford (1943–2009), photographer Dorothea Francis (1903–1976), painter and illustrator Camilla Franks (born 1976), fashion designer Virginia Fraser (1947–2021), filmmaker, writer, curator, advocate for women artists Zoe Freney, painter Ella Fry (1916–1997), painter Florence Fuller (1867–1946), South African-born painter Mari Funaki (1950–2010), Japanese-born contemporary jeweller, metal-smith, sculptor
G Sally Gabori / Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda (1924–2015), artist Kiley Gaffney (living), performance artist, musician