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Rosalie Gascoigne

New Zealand-born Australian sculptor and assemblage artist

Janet Sobel

In 1947, Jackson Pollock created an artform out of dripping and flinging paint across canvases—except a Ukrainian-American grandmother, Janet Sobel, had already been doing it for years.

When she published her own book, Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them, in 1915, the country’s first book dedicated to quilt history became a bestseller. It also helped legitimize quilting as an art and as an important topic of scholarly research.

Minnie Pwerle

Indigenous Australian artist

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce became the first woman of African descent to represent the U.K. at the Venice Biennale in 2022, the year she turned 60.

Yvonne Koolmatrie

Indigenous Australian artist known for her traditional weaving of items like eel traps

Lubaina Himid

In 2017, 63-year-old Tanzanian-British artist Lubaina Himid became the oldest artist to win the acclaimed Turner Prize, as well as the first woman of African descent.