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Chrissy Grishin
Biography
Chrissie Grishin (b. 1954), printmaker and painter, exhibits under the name of G W Bot, derived from an eighteenth-century French reference to the wombat as ‘le grand Wam Bot’ and adopted in tribute to the animal with which she has taken as her totem.
1 portrait in the collection
Professor Sasha Grishin AM
Biography
Sasha Grishin AM (birth date undisclosed) is the Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History at the Australian National University.
1 portrait in the collection
Natasha Gadd
Biography
Natasha Gadd is an independent documentary filmmaker, writer and curator based in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Lady Natasha Johnston
Biography
Natasha Johnston (1914-1984) was born Nataliya Konstantinovna Bagration-Moukhranskya, Princess Natasha Bagration, in Crimea.
1 portrait in the collection
Amanda King
Biography
Amanda King is a Sydney-based visual artist and producer and director of film documentaries.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Kenneth Gillespie
Biography
Sir Kenneth Gillespie (1929–2010), dancer, teacher and founder of the Tasmanian Ballet, left his native Launceston at age sixteen to join the Borovansky Ballet in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Eric Thake
Biography
Eric Thake (1904-1982), printmaker, painter and photographer, trained at the National Gallery School and the George Bell School and showed with the Contemporary Group in Melbourne between 1932 and 1938 before serving as an official war artist in the RAAF.
7 portraits in the collection