Raimond Gaita (b. 1946) arrived in Australia in 1950 with his Romanian father and German mother, and was brought up largely by his father near Barninghup, Victoria.
1 portrait in the collection
Raimond Gaita comments on war and truth in the context of the First World War.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Featuring contributions from Pat Jalland, Raimond Gaita, Lee Grant, Christopher Chapman, and Anne Sanders.
Richard Roxburgh (b. 1962), actor, completed an economics degree at the Australian National University before gaining a place at NIDA on his second attempt.
2 portraits in the collection
Focusing on the wide-ranging themes of loss and absence, All that fall: Sacrifice, life and loss in the First World War creates a moving portrait of mourning and sacrifice as experienced on the Australian home front during the First World War.
Michael Desmond reveals the origins of composite portraits and their evolution in the pursuit of the ideal.
The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.