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Laurie Carmichael
Biography
Laurie Carmichael (1925-2018), union leader, left school at 14 to take up a fitting and turning apprenticeship, and after service in the RAF joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
2 portraits in the collection
Laurie Carmichael, 1981 (printed 2018)
Gary Ede
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2018
Mr Laurie Carmichael, 1973
Frank Hinder
Portrait, fibre-tipped pen, wash on paper
Gift of HOTA (Home of the Arts), Gold Coast 2019 with the encouragement of Patrick Corrigan AM
Alex Carmichael, Chairman of Santos - Ansett Director,
Joe Greenberg
Portrait, watercolour, crayon, coloured pencil, gouache and fibre-tipped pen on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001
Laurie Chow, engineer, Glebe Island Bridge, Sydney, 1995 (printed 2000)
David Moore
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.
Nancy Borlase and Laurie Short, 1991
Jenny Sages
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust 1998
Thomas Pearce
Biography
Thomas Pearce (c. 1860-1909) was an apprentice on the English merchant vessel the Loch Ard, which embarked for Victoria in March 1878 carrying 37 crew and 16 passengers, many from the Carmichael family.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Pearce, c. 1878
The Photographic Society of Victoria, Melbourne
Portrait, albumen paper carte de visite on card
Purchased 2010
Sir Mark Sheldon
Biography
Sir Mark Sheldon (1871-1956), businessman, was the Chairman of the first Repatriation Board of NSW.
1 portrait in the collection
Pat Mackie, 2004
Nancy Borlase AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2004
Study for self portrait, c. 1965
Jean Appleton
Portrait, oil on masonite
Gift of Laurie Curley OAM and Mrs Robyn Curley 2012
Eleanor Constance Gude
Biography
Eleanor Constance 'Nornie' Gude (1915–2002) was born in Ballarat and was fifteen when she was accepted to study painting at the Ballarat Technical Art School.
1 portrait in the collection
Double Portrait: Vida and Marie Breckenridge (study), 1999
Nancy Borlase AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Marie Breckenridge 2004
Nancy Borlase AM
Biography
Nancy Borlase AM (1914–2006), painter and writer, was born in New Zealand, and had to be dug out of the wreckage when an earthquake struck Napier in late 1931.
4 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
Clara Crosbie, c. 1885
Arthur William Burman
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Gift of John McPhee 2018