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Kitty Kantilla (Kutuwulumi Purawarrumpatu)
Biography
Kitty Kantilla (Kutuwulumi Purawarrumpatu) (c. 1928–2003) was the most acclaimed Tiwi artist of her generation.
1 portrait in the collection
Tim Johnson
Biography
Tim Johnson, Sydney-based artist, was part of a circle of urban conceptual artists in the 1970s.
4 portraits in the collection
Mickey Johnson
Biography
Mickey Johnson (1834-1906) was an Indigenous leader in the Illawarra district of New South Wales during the second half of the nineteenth century.
1 portrait in the collection
William Johnson
Biography
William Johnson was a commercial photographer who operated a studio on the corner of Pitt and Market Streets in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s.
4 portraits in the collection
Andree Johnson-Bell
Biography
Andree Johnston-Bell (1917-2007), pioneer publisher of articles on Australian antiques, was born in China of Belgian parents and educated in Belgium.
1 portrait in the collection
Samuel Woolf
Biography
Samuel Johnson Woolf, American painter, lithographer and illustrator, was born in New York City and named after the English essayist Samuel Johnson.
1 portrait in the collection
Jo Bertini
Biography
Jo Bertini (b. 1964) is a Sydney painter, art educator, lecturer and writer.
2 portraits in the collection
Michele Aboud
Biography
Michele Aboud, commercial, fashion and portrait photographer, is a graduate of the Photographic College of London and UCLA.
1 portrait in the collection
Omai
Biography
Omai (Mai) (c. 1750-1778), the first Polynesian to visit Britain, was a young man of middling social standing who volunteered to sail from Huahine to England with Captain Furneaux on the Adventure (the ship accompanying James Cook's Resolution on Cook's second voyage of discovery (1772-1775).
2 portraits in the collection
Bruce Pollard
Biography
Bruce Pollard (b. 1936), gallerist, established the Pinocotheca Gallery in a St Kilda mansion in 1967, and relocated it to an old hat factory in Richmond in 1970.
1 portrait in the collection
Joshua Ross
Biography
Joshua Ross (b. 1981) excelled at athletics as a child, but didn't take up sprinting in earnest until 2000, inspired by watching the Sydney Olympics on television.
1 portrait in the collection
David Campese AM
Biography
David Ian Campese (b. 1962) is the world's leading representative rugby union footballer, having played 101 tests for Australia between 1982 and 1996.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Biography
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), acknowledged as one of the world's great portraitists, was master of portraits in the 'Grand Manner', replete with moral and heroic symbolism.
3 portraits in the collection
Sir Asher Joel
Biography
Sir Asher Joel (1912-1998), public relations entrepreneur and state politician, started out as a copyboy at Sydney’s Daily Telegraph.
1 portrait in the collection
Leeanne Crisp
Biography
Leeanne Crisp (b. 1950) was born in Adelaide, where she attended the South Australian School of Art and gained an advanced diploma from the Western Teacher's College in 1972.
3 portraits in the collection
Ray Crooke AM
Biography
Ray Crooke AM grew up in Melbourne, where after army service in WA, North Queensland and Borneo, he trained at Swinburne Tech from 1946 to 1948.
3 portraits in the collection