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Juliet van Otteren
Biography
Juliet van Otteren's first passion were dance and riding her horses bareback across the countryside.
1 portrait in the collection
A & G Taylor
Biography
Photographers Andrew Taylor and George Taylor opened their first studio in Cannon Street in east London in 1866.
1 portrait in the collection
Ron Taylor AM
Biography
Ron Taylor AM (1934–2012) was a marine conservationist and pioneer of underwater cinematography.
1 portrait in the collection
Howard Taylor AO
Biography
Howard Taylor AM (1918-2001), painter, sculptor, graphic artist and teacher, trained in England before the war, which he spent largely as a prisoner in Stalag Luft III.
2 portraits in the collection
Mark Taylor AO
Biography
Mark Taylor AO (b. 1964) was captain of the Australian cricket team from 1994 until his retirement from Test cricket in 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
Noah Taylor
Biography
Noah Taylor (b. 1969) left school at 16 to join Melbourne's St Martin's Youth Theatre.
1 portrait in the collection
Paul Taylor
Biography
Paul Taylor (1957-1992), critic and curator, graduated from Monash Univeristy in 1979.
1 portrait in the collection
Valerie Taylor
Biography
Valerie Taylor AM (b. 1935) is a marine conservationist, photographer and shark specialist.
1 portrait in the collection
Baz Luhrmann
Biography
Baz Luhrmann (b. 1962), film director, aspired to be an actor, appearing in Winter of Our Dreams (1981) and studying acting at NIDA before turning to directing.
2 portraits in the collection
Ingvar Kenne
Biography
Ingvar Kenne (b. 1965), photographer, was born in Sweden and is now based between Sydney and New York.
16 portraits in the collection
Steve Waugh
Biography
Steve Waugh (b. 1965) became captain of the Australian cricket team when Mark Taylor retired in early 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
Mel Gibson AO
Biography
Mel Gibson (b. 1956), actor, was born in New York state, the sixth of eleven children of a railroad brakeman and an Australian opera singer.
1 portrait in the collection
Alan Alder
Biography
Alan Alder (1937–2019), dancer and ballet teacher, began his career studying tap and Scottish highland dancing in Canberra.
2 portraits in the collection
David McAllister AC
Biography
David McAllister AC (b. 1963), dancer and former artistic director of the Australian Ballet, was born in Perth and began studying ballet in the early 1970s.
3 portraits in the collection
Bill Leak
Biography
Bill Leak (1956-2017), portrait painter and caricaturist, trained at the Julian Ashton art school in the mid-1970s, and began his career painting landscapes.
7 portraits in the collection
Douglas Kirkland
Biography
Douglas Kirkland, photographer, was born in Canada and started his career on small newspapers there.
1 portrait in the collection