Terry Clune

Terry Clune (b. 1932), gallerist, established Terry Clune Galleries with Frank MacDonald at 59 McLeay Street Potts Point in 1957. Terry was the second son of writer Frank Clune and his wife Thelma Clune AO, and 59 McLeay Street was the family home. Thelma Clune was an art dealer, and the house had been a haven for artists for some years; Frank Clune was painted by William Dargie and also by William Dobell, whose 1946 painting of Thelma is one of his most appealing portraits. Into the 1960s Terry Clune Galleries was an avant-garde destination exhibiting Sydney's emerging abstract and modernist artists, including John Olsen, John Passmore, Robert Klippel, Stan Rapotec, Carl Plate, Margo Lewers, Elwyn Lynn, John Rigby, Desiderius Orban and Robert Dickerson. When Terry Clune sold his interest to MacDonald in 1967, the gallery moved to Macquarie Street and was renamed the Clune Gallery. In 1969 the old Clune Gallery space became a studio for Martin Sharp, and the house became the Yellow House. In 1974 the Clune Gallery moved to 30 Victoria Street, Potts Point, and adopted the name Thirty Victoria Street.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Doreen and Ted Euers 2011