Alison Marjorie Ashby

Alison Ashby painted water colours of many hundreds of Australian flowers. The originals are now housed in the South Australian State Herbarium and more than 200 have been published as postcards.

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Anna Frances Walker

Anna Walker was a botanist during the 1800s who studied the flora of New South Wales and Tasmania. The Mitchell Library has a collection of her works including sketches and letters.

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Eva Mirabal

Entitled G.I. Gertie, her comic strips appeared in a Women’s Army Corps (WAC) publication and featured the hijinks of a young woman soldier.

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Lynda Barry

Barry invented the term “autobiofictionalography” to describe the hybrid nature of her multilayered, multimedia approach that incorporates collage and drawing in ink and watercolor.

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