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Simon Griffiths
Biography
Simon Griffiths has been acclaimed in numerous publications as Australia's leading food and garden photographer.
1 portrait in the collection
Simon McKeon AO
Biography
Simon McKeon (b. 1955), corporate chair, investment banker and philanthropic entrepreneur, gained degrees in commerce and law in Melbourne before beginning a very successful career in banking and finance.
1 portrait in the collection
Simon Tedeschi
Biography
Simon Tedeschi (b. 1981), award-winning classical pianist, grew up in Sydney, and essentially abandoned his school lessons as an adolescent to concentrate on his piano studies with Neta Maughan.
1 portrait in the collection
Elliott and Fry
Biography
Elliott & Fry, a photography studio and photographic film manufacturer, was founded in 1863 at 55-56 Baker Street, London by Joseph John Elliott and Clarence Edmund Fry.
2 portraits in the collection
Herb Elliott AC MBE
Biography
James Herbert 'Herb' Elliott AC MBE (b. 1938), runner, won the gold medal in the 1500 metres at the Rome Olympics in 1960.
1 portrait in the collection
Peter Elliott AM
Biography
Peter Elliott AM (1927–2014) was an obstetrician, gynaecologist and gynaecological oncologist as well as a significant art collector and patron.
6 portraits in the collection
John Elliott
Biography
John Elliott (b. 1951), photographer, country music devotee, broadcaster and writer, grew up in Blackall in central western Queensland.
24 portraits in the collection
Kondelea Elliott
Biography
Kondelea Elliott (1917–2011), union official and women's rights lobbyist, was the daughter of a Greek migrant father, Nicholas Xenodohos, who had come from the Queensland canefields via Sydney, and an Australian mother who had left school at the age of eight and performed in a circus.
1 portrait in the collection
Ruskin
Biography
Ruskin was a Sydney photographic business, located at 159 O'Sullivans Road, Rose Bay.
1 portrait in the collection
Ben Baker
Biography
Born in Adelaide and raised in Darwin, Ben Baker currently resides in New York City and works internationally.
1 portrait in the collection
Cherry Hood
Biography
Cherry Hood (b. c. 1950), is an artist well known for her haunting, large-scale images of faces.
3 portraits in the collection
Ivy Shore
Biography
Ivy Shore (1915–1999), painter, was born in Melbourne, daughter of a South Australian suffragette, Elka, and engineer John Williams.
2 portraits in the collection
Gary Heery
Biography
Gary Heery, photographer, was born in Sydney, where he studied sociology and psychology at the University of New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Miriam Hyde AO OBE
Biography
Miriam Hyde AO OBE (1913-2005), composer, recitalist, teacher, examiner, poet, lecturer and writer of numerous articles for music journals, studied first with her mother and then with William Silver at the Elder Conservatorium in Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection