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Janet Dawson, Paddington, Sydney

1966 (printed 2000)
David Moore

from the series ‘From Face to Face’
type C photograph on paper (32.5 cm x 22.3 cm)

Janet Dawson (b. 1935) is a painter, printer, teacher and stage designer. She trained at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, and won a NGV Travelling Scholarship to study painting, lithography and etching at the Slade School and the Central School in London. Since then she has had more than 20 solo exhibitions, including a survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1979. She has been included in nearly 100 group exhibitions and major surveys of contemporary Australian works and is represented in all major public collections in Australia. In 1996 the National Gallery of Australia mounted a retrospective of her work, The Drawings of Janet Dawson, 1956 to the Present, and in 2006-2007 the Bathurst Regional Gallery's Janet Dawson Survey 1953-2006 toured widely. Dawson lives with her husband, writer Michael Boddy, near Binalong, NSW.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
© Lisa, Michael, Matthew and Joshua Moore
http://davidmoorephotography.com.au/

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Artist and subject

David Moore (age 39 in 1966)

Janet Dawson (age 31 in 1966)

Subject professions

Visual arts and crafts

Donated by

David Moore (79 portraits)

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