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Their brilliant careers
Magazine article by Jenny Gall, 2017
Jenny Gall delves into Starstruck to celebrate some of Australian cinema’s iconic women.
Jenny Kee AO
Biography
Jenny Kee AO (b. 1947) is a fashion designer and an Australian style icon.
1 portrait in the collection
Jenny Howard
Biography
Jenny Howard née Daisy Blowes (1902-1996), stage performer, made her name in her native England as ‘the poor man’s Gracie Fields’, recording covers of Fields’s songs for a cut-price label and impersonating the star onstage.
1 portrait in the collection
Jenny Watson
Biography
Jenny Watson (b. 1951), painter and lecturer, studied painting at the NGV school and completed her Dip.
2 portraits in the collection
Jenny Sages
Biography
Jenny Sages (b. 1933), artist, was born to Russian Jewish parents in Shanghai and came to Australia with her family in 1948.
34 portraits in the collection
Jenny Munro
Biography
Jenny Munro (b. 1956) is a Wiradjuri elder and prominent activist for Aboriginal rights and sovereignty.
1 portrait in the collection
Single parent Robert Smith-Goode, housing commission flats, 2009
by Jenny Hodge
Image
After Jack, 2012
Jenny Sages
Portrait, encaustic, oil and pigment on composition board
Purchased 2018
Jackie and Kerryn
Jenny Sages
Image
Observation point
Magazine article by Jenny Sages, 2015
Australian artist and Archibald Prize winner, Jenny Sages reflects on her work.
Vegan in a leather coat (self portrait)
Jenny Rodgerson
Image
Aussie Icon: Portrait of Jenny Kee, 2022
Adrienne Doig
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint on wood
Purchased 2022
Jenny Sages - artist, 2012
by Gary Grealy
Image
Jenny Watson 4, February 1979, 1979 (printed 2012)
Robert Rooney
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2012
Jenny Howard, c. 1930s
an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2017
Jenny Sages, 1995
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.