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Karin Catt
Guy Pearce, 2000 (printed 2004)
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2005
The Photographic Society of Victoria, Melbourne
Thomas Pearce, c. 1878
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite on card
Purchased 2010
Thomas Pearce
Biography
Thomas Pearce (c. 1860-1909) was an apprentice on the English merchant vessel the Loch Ard, which embarked for Victoria in March 1878 carrying 37 crew and 16 passengers, many from the Carmichael family.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Bock
Jessie Whyte, c. 1840
Portrait, pastel and chalk on paper laid down on cotton over Cedar strainer
Purchased 2017
Gordon Glenn
Gillian Armstrong AM, 1973
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Arthur William Burman
Clara Crosbie, c. 1885
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Gift of John McPhee 2018
Fredrick Charles Burman after John Cochran
Reverend Daniel Draper, c. 1866
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite
Purchased 2010
Gillian Armstrong AM
Biography
Gillian Armstrong (b. 1950) studied theatre and film-making at Swinburne Technical College and was a star student at the newly-established Australian Film and Television School in the early 70s.
2 portraits in the collection
John Passmore
Biography
John Passmore (1904-1984), painter, studied with Julian Ashton in Sydney between the ages of fourteen and twenty-nine, and took some instruction from George Lambert.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Bock
Biography
Thomas Bock, artist, printmaker and photographer, is believed to have been born at Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, in 1790.
3 portraits in the collection
Public hanging
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2008
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
David Strachan
Biography
David Strachan (1919–1970), painter and printmaker, was educated at Geelong Grammar School and then studied art at the Slade School in London.
2 portraits in the collection
9 lives of Karin Catt
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2006
Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.
Through blue eyes
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
Works by Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan bring the desert, the misty seashore and the hot Monaro plains to exhibition Open Air: Portraits in the landscape.
Australians in Hollywood
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2003
The exhibition Australians in Hollywood celebrated the achievements of Australians in the highly competitive American film industry.
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Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2017
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.