27:(11 September 1906 – 4 January 1994) was an English artist and designer who worked in England, Australia and New Zealand in almost every available medium – drawings, woodcuts, lithographs on stone and tempera, tapestry and silk screening. In addition to being a printmaker, illustrator, calligrapher and muralist, she designed coins, stamps, tapestry and posters, and wrote and illustrated eight books on natural science.
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for prints in 1962. Other stamps in the series feature the kangaroo, banded anteater, tiger cat, rabbit bandicoot and the
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one of the first times that a designer further commercialised their designs by producing poster versions of the stamp artwork and made them available for sale. This series, the first to be designed by a woman, were for the
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until her death. Her last works were silkscreen prints, which she found the easiest medium to use with decreasing mobility, insisting, as always, that they be sold at affordable prices.
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in Sydney and was a member of Sydney
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Works and records related to Eileen Mayo in the collection of the Museum of New
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over the telephone. Her resulting print was called "Turkish Bath", which was included in the
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A Second Primer of
Classical Ballet (Cecchetti Method) for Children
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A Primer of
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In 1936 she married Dr
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The Poems of
Amriolkais (Sir Williams Jones, translator)
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Works in the collection of the Christchurch Art Gallery
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As part of the Australian Commonwealth series of six
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