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Jim Anderson
Biography
Jim Anderson was born in England, his family moving to Australia when he was one year old.
1 portrait in the collection
Ethel Anderson
Biography
Ethel Anderson (née Mason, 1883-1958), writer and artist, was an important figure in the Sydney modern art scene of the 1920s and 30s.
2 portraits in the collection
Margaret Anderson GM
Biography
Margaret Anderson GM (1915–1995) served with the Australian Army Nursing Service during the Second World War in Singapore.
1 portrait in the collection
Michael Anderson
Biography
Michael Anderson, sheep farmer and Aboriginal land rights activist, was born in Brewarrina, NSW.
1 portrait in the collection
Angry Anderson
Biography
Gary ‘Angry’ Anderson AM (b. 1947) is an Australian rock singer and television presenter.
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE
Biography
Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE (1897–1992) was an Adelaide-born stage and film actress well known for her role as the sinister Mrs Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).
1 portrait in the collection
Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson AM
Biography
Professor Jaynie Anderson is the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Meg Padgham
Biography
Meg Padgham studied at East Sydney Technical College and the Meldrum School.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Robert Helpmann CBE
Biography
Sir Robert Helpmann CBE (1909–1986) was a dancer, actor and choreographer.
3 portraits 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
Sally Robinson
Biography
Sally Robinson, born in England, studied at the National Art School in Sydney from 1970 to 1973, and in the following year took up a position as designer at the Australian Museum in Sydney.
3 portraits in the collection
Marilyn Rowe AM OBE
Biography
Marilyn Rowe AM OBE (b. 1946), former prima ballerina, was the first graduate of The Australian Ballet School to become its director.
2 portraits in the collection
Irina Baronova
Biography
Irina Baronova (1919–2008) was one of the three legendary 'baby ballerinas' of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, who created an international dance sensation in the 1930s and 1940s.
1 portrait in the collection
Montalbetti + Campbell
Biography
Canadian-born photographic team Denis Montalbetti and Gay Campbell arrived in Australia in 1988.
14 portraits in the collection
Phillip Gudthaykudthay
Biography
Philip Gudthaykudthay (b. 1935) Liyagalawumirr (Yolgnu) bark painter, worked as a young man as a stockman, fencer and crocodile hunter around Milingimbi and Ramingining.
1 portrait in the collection
Anne Boyd AM
Biography
Anne Boyd AM (b. 1946), composer and teacher, was born in Sydney and studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe at the University of Sydney before earning a PhD at the University of York.
1 portrait in the collection