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Today's female Australian artists is  Tracey Moffatt is an Indigenous woman who was born and educated in Brisbane, Queensland. She graduated from the Queensland College of Art with a degree in visual communication in 1982. Best known for her work in photography and video, she has exhibited in galleries nationally and abroad. After graduating from college, she moved to Sydney, later dividing her time between Sydney and New York. She began her career as an experimental filmmaker and producer of music videos and continued making films after establishing herself as a photographer. In 2004, she was described as one of 'the most famous and admired Australian [artists] on the international scene'. (Nelson) http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0772b.htm Over the last 25 years Moffatt has produced a cohesive body of work, from her celebrated 1989 series  Something More  to the more recent  Fourth , 2001. Each series devolves upon an unwritten narrative – a story is impl
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Christian Marjory Emily Carlyle Waller (1894-1954),  Christian  was born on 2 August 1894 at Castlemaine, Victoria, the fifth daughter and youngest of seven children of William Edward Yandell (d.1899), a Victorian-born plasterer, and his wife Emily, née James, who came from England. Christian began her art studies in 1905 under Carl Steiner at the Castlemaine School of Mines and was later taught by Hugh Fegan at the Bendigo School of Mines. She exhibited her work at the Bendigo Art Gallery and the local Masonic Hall in 1909, and in Melbourne next year. The family moved in 1910 to Melbourne where Christian attended the National Gallery schools.  She studied under  Frederick McCubbin  and  Bernard Hall , won several student prizes.  During the 1920s Christian Waller became a leading book illustrator, winning acclaim as the first Australian artist to illustrate  Alice in Wonderland  (1924).  Christian signed and exhibited her work under her maiden name until 1930, but thereafter used he