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Jenny Kee AO
Biography
Jenny Kee AO (b. 1947) is a fashion designer and an Australian style icon.
1 portrait in the collection
Jenny Sages
Biography
Jenny Sages (b. 1933), artist, was born to Russian Jewish parents in Shanghai and came to Australia with her family in 1948.
34 portraits in the collection
Jenny Howard
Biography
Jenny Howard née Daisy Blowes (1902-1996), stage performer, made her name in her native England as ‘the poor man’s Gracie Fields’, recording covers of Fields’s songs for a cut-price label and impersonating the star onstage.
1 portrait in the collection
Jenny Watson
Biography
Jenny Watson (b. 1951), painter and lecturer, studied painting at the NGV school and completed her Dip.
2 portraits in the collection
Jenny Munro
Biography
Jenny Munro (b. 1956) is a Wiradjuri elder and prominent activist for Aboriginal rights and sovereignty.
1 portrait in the collection
Gary Grealy
Biography
Gary Grealy (b. 1950) has established himself over many years as one of Sydney’s leading commercial and portrait photographers with work commissioned by leading advertising agencies and major national and international clients.
11 portraits in the collection
Robert Rosen
Biography
Robert Rosen is a portrait photographer who took thousands of snaps of the tawdry Sydney social scene of the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
2 portraits in the collection
George Moore
Biography
George Moore (1923-2008), champion jockey, was born in Mackay, Qld and was apprenticed in Brisbane in 1938.
1 portrait in the collection
Rick Carey
Biography
Rick and Thelma Carey comprise Australian country music's most famous double act, Rick and Thel.
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Nellie Melba GBE
Biography
Dame Nellie Melba GBE (1861–1931), world-renowned soprano, was born Helen Porter Mitchell in Melbourne.
8 portraits in the collection
Tom LeGarde
Biography
Tom LeGarde (1931–2021) and Ted LeGarde (1931–2018), 'The LeGarde Twins', were early pioneers of country music.
1 portrait in the collection
Ted LeGarde
Biography
Ted LeGarde (1931–2018) and Tom LeGarde (1931–2021), ‘The LeGarde Twins’, were early pioneers of country music.
1 portrait in the collection
Linda Jackson
Biography
Linda Mary Jackson (b. 1950) is a fashion designer and artist. Having studied fashion design at Emily McPherson College and photography at Prahran Technical College, she travelled to New Guinea, through Asia and Europe, and worked for Parisian couture house Mia-Vicky.
1 portrait in the collection
Cathy Freeman OAM
Biography
Cathy Freeman OAM (b. 1973) won the 400m Olympic Gold medal in front of her home crowd in Sydney in 2000 in one of the all-time great Australian sporting moments.
5 portraits in the collection
Tim Storrier
Biography
Tim Storrier AM (b. 1949), painter, studied at the National Art School from 1967 to 1969.
4 portraits in the collection
John Nixon
Biography
John Nixon (1949–2020), installation artist and painter, studied at the Preston Institute of Technology and the National Gallery School in the late 1960s and 1970.
1 portrait in the collection