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Lady Natasha Johnston
Biography
Natasha Johnston (1914-1984) was born Nataliya Konstantinovna Bagration-Moukhranskya, Princess Natasha Bagration, in Crimea.
1 portrait in the collection
Lady Natasha Johnston, 1968
Cecil Beaton
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Hugo Vickers 2005
George Johnston OBE
Biography
George Henry Johnston OBE (1912-1970), journalist and novelist, grew up in Elsternwick, a working-class suburb of Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
George Johnston
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1964
George Johnston, Fleet Street, London, c. 1952 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
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
Natasha Gadd
Biography
Natasha Gadd is an independent documentary filmmaker, writer and curator based in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Sleep, 2019
Natasha Bieniek
Image
Observation point
Magazine article by Natasha Walsh, 2019
My practice has always been driven by my experimental curiosity, from heavy wax and resin bodies generated in flame, to delicate temporal works that explore the conductive and alchemical possibilities of copper.
Johnny Warren OAM MBE, 2008
Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham
Portrait, single channel moving image, colour, sound, 2 minutes, 50 seconds
Purchased 2011
Ms Natasha Grishin, 1996
Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Dianne Fogwell
Portrait, etching
Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Andree Johnston-Bell, c. 1945
Walter Langhammer
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Jocelyne MacLeod 2008
Natasha Bieniek
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Born in Melbourne, Natasha Bieniek began her formal artistic training at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002. Bieniek’s When the music’s over (2006) won the Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, a painting scholarship to study at the Accademia d’Arte in Florence, where she learnt the ancient technique of egg tempera.
Andree Johnson-Bell
Biography
Andree Johnston-Bell (1917-2007), pioneer publisher of articles on Australian antiques, was born in China of Belgian parents and educated in Belgium.
1 portrait in the collection
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General content
The exhibition features work from Jan Nelson, Natasha Bieniek, Patricia Piccinini, Juan Ford, Petrina Hicks, Ron Mueck, Yanni Floros, Sam Jinks, Michael Peck and Robin Eley.
Albert and Vincent
Vincent Namatjira OAM
Image
Angus Young
Biography
Angus Young (b. 1955), guitarist and songwriter, was a founding member of Australia's most successful ever band, AC/DC.
3 portraits in the collection