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Rosemary Valadon

Rosemary Valadon

Rosemary Valadon (b. 1947) is a Sydney artist best known for large-scale oil paintings characterised by theatricality and opulence and informed with irony and feminism.

2 portraits in the collection

Rosemary Dobson

Rosemary Dobson

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 1959

Rosemary Dobson

Rosemary Dobson

Rosemary Dobson

Rosemary Dobson, 1981

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Rex Dupain 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Rosemary Madigan

Rosemary Madigan

Rosemary Madigan

Rosemary Madigan, 1992

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Alice Giles

Alice Giles

Alice Giles

Alice Giles, 1984

Rosemary Madigan

Portrait, pastel on paper

Gift of Alice Giles AM, in memory of her mother Rosemary Madigan 2023

Rosemary Valadon

Rosemary Valadon

Rosemary Valadon

Rosemary Valadon, 1995

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Robert Klippel

Robert Klippel

Robert Klippel

Robert Klippel, c. 1990

Rosemary Madigan

Portrait, pastel on paper

Purchased 2020

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl, 1995

Rosemary Valadon

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased 2000

Rosemary, 2006 by Petrina Hicks

Rosemary, 2006

by Petrina Hicks

Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt, 2006

Anthony Browell

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Rosemary and Robert Walsh 2006

Robert Klippel

Hearts and craft

The long game

Blow Back

Blow Back

Blow Back

Blow Back, 2018

Portrait, pigment photographic prints on paper, hand ground glass

Gift of the artist 2024. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

Alex Miller, novelist

Alexander Miller

Alex Miller (b. 1936), one of Australia’s most decorated and popular authors, migrated from England to Australia on his own as a sixteen-year-old.

3 portraits in the collection

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David Brooks

David Brooks, poet, literary critic and academic, studied in the early 1970s at the Australian National University, where he fell in with a group of Canberra writers including AD Hope, Rosemary Dobson, David Campbell and Judith Wright and co-founded Open Door Press with Alan Gould.

1 portrait in the collection

Tim Winton

2020 Annual Appeal

In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.

Professor A D Hope, Canberra

Professor A D Hope, Canberra

Professor A D Hope, Canberra

Professor A D Hope, Canberra, 1963 (printed 2000)

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

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