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Dr Germaine Greer
Biography
Germaine Greer (b. 1939), writer, critic and academic, is the author of the influential feminist book, The Female Eunuch (1970), which examines the ways in which passivity in women has been encouraged.
2 portraits in the collection
Germaine Greer, 1988
Jacqueline Mitelman
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 1999
Professor Germaine Greer, 1999
Polly Borland
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2001
Polly Borland on Germaine Greer
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 2017
Robert Whitaker
Biography
Robert Whitaker, English photographer, spent three years in Melbourne in the early 1960s, becoming friends with Mirka and Georges Mora, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer, the Heide crowd and Martin Sharp and Richard Neville.
1 portrait in the collection
Aime Dupont
Biography
Aimé Dupont, a Belgian sculptor turned photographer, and his wife, photographer Etta Greer, moved to New York in the 1880s, having established a reputation as portraitists of opera singers in Paris.
1 portrait in the collection
Bare
Degrees of undress
Previous exhibition, 2015
Bare: Degrees of undress celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
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
Polly Borland
Australians
Previous exhibition, 2001
Polly Borland: Australians, is an exhibition of 54 new portraits of significant Australians who have made a contribution to British life and who have largely made their home or based their professional life in the UK
Harmony (Self portrait)
Paule Vézelay
Image
Clive James AO CBE
Biography
Clive James AM (1939-2019), writer, broadcaster and critic, grew up in Sydney, attending Hurstville Opportunity School, Sydney Tech.
1 portrait in the collection
Clive James, 1999
Polly Borland
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2001
Margaret Fink, 1989
Kerrie Lester
Portrait, oil and hand-stitching with diamantes on canvas
Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress
13 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015
This exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress
22 July 2015
Archived media releases 2015
A new exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and the fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
Philippe Mora
Biography
Philippe Mora (b. 1949), filmmaker, artist and writer, is the eldest son of artist Mirka Mora and restauranteur and gallery owner Georges Mora.
1 portrait in the collection