Eirene Mort

[1] Her parents were Canon Henry Wallace Mort,[2] an Anglican clergyman, and Kate Macintosh who was the daughter of Robert Isaacs.

Mort attended St Catherine's Clergy Daughters' School in Waverley where her headmistress, Helen Phillips, encouraged her pursuit of art and allowed her to freely use the art studio which Phillips had donated to the school in 1884 and which is now used as a museum.

[1] Mort illustrated articles she wrote for the Sydney Mail and Art and Architecture,[5][6] and illustrated several books including Florence Sulman's A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales (1913),[7] The Story of Architecture (1942),[8] and Selwyn Mort's Coins of the Hapsburg Emperors 1619–1919.

[9][5] She also wrote and illustrated books about Australian fauna and flora for children including Country cousins.

[17] Mort lived with her partner, the wood artist Nora "Chips" Weston, in Vaucluse and later in the southern highlands.