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In profile
Polly Borland
Magazine article by Oliver Giles, 2023
Polly Borland talks to Oliver Giles about the celebrity portraits that made her name and why she’s now making more abstract art.
Ernest Giles
Biography
Ernest Giles (1835-1897), explorer, came to Australia at the age of fifteen, settling in Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
Alice Giles, 1984
Rosemary Madigan
Portrait, pastel on paper
Gift of Alice Giles AM, in memory of her mother Rosemary Madigan 2023
Dame Annie Florence Cardell-Oliver DBE
Biography
Dame Annie Florence Cardell-Oliver DBE (1876–1965), politician, grew up in Melbourne before marrying David Sykes Boyd, a wool buyer, and returning with him to England.
1 portrait in the collection
Matt Moran, 2004
Murray Fredericks, Lisa Giles
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artists 2005
Florence Cardell-Oliver, n.d.
Broothorn Studios
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper laid on photography studio backing board
Gift of Chris Nielsen 2016
The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879), 1876
The Illustrated London News after Jesse Young
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2010
Portrait 70
Magazine
Kim Leutwyler on her portraits of the LGBTQIA+ community, Oliver Giles chats to Polly Borland, Gunggandji artist Simone Arnol, and Andrew Quilty's new book.
Oliver Cromwell
Robert Walker
Image
Jenny Kee
Carla Fletcher
Image
Twin Souls, Linda Jackson
Carla Fletcher
Image
The mahi-mahi, 2019
Rob Palmer
Image
Sarony & Co
Biography
Oliver Sarony (1820-1879) arrived in England from his native Quebec in 1843 and worked as a daguerreotypist in various cities before settling in Scarborough on the coast of Yorkshire in 1857.
2 portraits in the collection
All together now, 2012
by Clare Thackway
General content
Finalist, iD2012
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Biography
Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), acknowledged as one of the world's great portraitists, was master of portraits in the 'Grand Manner', replete with moral and heroic symbolism.
3 portraits in the collection
Matthew Sleeth
Biography
Matthew Sleeth began his photographic career with a number of monographs including Roaring Days, The Bank Book and Tour of Duty.
2 portraits in the collection