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Esther Erlich
Biography
Esther Erlich (b. 1955), a Melbourne-based painter, has been exhibiting since the early 1980s, often with the Libby Edwards Galleries in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and the Barry Newton Gallery in Adelaide.
3 portraits in the collection
Graham Kennedy AO
Biography
Graham Kennedy AO (1934-2005), entertainer, began his career in Melbourne radio in 1949.
2 portraits in the collection
Sergeant Michael Kennedy
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas McIntyre
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Dan Kelly
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Thomas Lonigan
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Michael Scanlan
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Peter English
Biography
Peter English was an RAAF photographer from the early 1950s onward, taking air and ground photographs in Australia and Malaya.
1 portrait in the collection
Bert Newton AM MBE
Biography
Bert Newton AM MBE (1938-2021) was one of Australia's longest-serving and best-known television personalities.
1 portrait in the collection
Alex Ellinghausen
Biography
Alex Ellinghausen (b. 1982) is an editorial photographer with Fairfax Media.
1 portrait in the collection
Melissa Beowulf
Biography
Melissa Beowulf grew up in Sydney, where she became a graphic artist.
2 portraits in the collection
Bill Leak
Biography
Bill Leak (1956-2017), portrait painter and caricaturist, trained at the Julian Ashton art school in the mid-1970s, and began his career painting landscapes.
7 portraits in the collection
Norman McBeath
Biography
Norman McBeath, Edinburgh-based photographer and printmaker, has fifty portraits in the National Portrait Galleries of London and Edinburgh.
2 portraits in the collection
Ian Darling AO
Biography
Ian Darling AO is an award winning documentary filmmaker. He has made two films about adventurer and explorer Jon Muir; Alone Across Australia and Suzy & The Simple Man.
1 portrait in the collection
Deidre But-Husaim
Biography
Deidre But-Husaim (b. 1959), based in Adelaide, South Australia, undertook her formative art study at the Adelaide Central School of Art, where she has since taught painting.
2 portraits in the collection
Tony Kearney
Biography
Tony Kearney, a self-described amateur photographer, is a full time director of Designmakers Pty Ltd, a leading industrial design consultancy based in Adelaide.
3 portraits in the collection