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Rosemary Valadon
Rosemary Valadon
Rosemary Valadon
Greg Weight

Rosemary Valadon, 1995

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

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

Rosemary Valadon

Rosemary Valadon

Biography

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

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl
Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl
Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl
Rosemary Valadon

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl, 1995

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased 2000

Rosemary Dobson
Rosemary Dobson
Rosemary Dobson
Max Dupain OBE

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
Greg Weight

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
Rosemary Madigan

Alice Giles, 1984

Portrait, pastel on paper

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

Robert Klippel
Robert Klippel
Robert Klippel
Rosemary Madigan

Robert Klippel, c. 1990

Portrait, pastel on paper

Purchased 2020

Glenn Murcutt
Glenn Murcutt
Glenn Murcutt
Anthony Browell

Glenn Murcutt, 2006

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

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

Professor A D Hope, Canberra
Professor A D Hope, Canberra
Professor A D Hope, Canberra
David Moore

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.

Self portrait
Self portrait
Self portrait
Agnes Goodsir

Self portrait, 1900

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Rosemary Neilson 2021

Portrait of Elizabeth Jolley
Portrait of Elizabeth Jolley
Portrait of Elizabeth Jolley
Mary Moore

Portrait of Elizabeth Jolley, 2003

Portrait, oil on composition board

Commissioned with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2003

Blow Back
Blow Back
Blow Back
Julie Rrap

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.

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2023

Portrait Donors
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2021

Portrait Donors
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2006

Portrait Donors
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David Brooks

Biography

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

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