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Luke Cornish
'I love getting into the Salon as a street artist because the whole ethos of that award is the refused, the rejected'
Portrait story
Luke Cornish, aka E.L.K. describes his street art and portraiture
Luke Cornish
Biography
Luke Cornish (b. 1979) is a Sydney-based handmade stencil artist. A self-described former blue-collar worker from Canberra, under the name of E.L.K he began experimenting with stencil cutting and spray paint in his mid-twenties.
1 portrait in the collection
Through a child's eyes
Luke Currie-Richardson
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Bob Hawke, 2012
Luke Cornish
Portrait, hand-cut acetate stencil, aerosol enamel on canvas
Purchased 2013
Mr. Zee
Luke Ray
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Monkey business, 2011
by Alina Gozin'a
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Harold Cazneaux, 1928
Monte Luke
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Luke and Nacoya, 2016
by Daniel Sponiar
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Luke Brookes and Ellen Buswell
Elizabeth Looker
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Nick Cave, Susie Bick and Luke Cave, 1998 (printed 2020)
Dominique Issermann
Portrait, inkjet print on Hanhnemühle paper
Purchased 2022
Rosie Batty AO
Biography
Rosie Batty AO (b. 1962), campaigner against family violence, became well known to the Australian public in early 2014, when her eleven-year-old son Luke was murdered by his father as she stood waiting to take him home from cricket practice.
1 portrait in the collection
Hiljaisuus: Four Walks, 2016
by Luke Aleksandrow
General content
Finalist, DPA 2016
Stepping out
Devotion
Beautiful punk love
Gervaise Purcell
Biography
Gervaise Purcell was a commercial photographer specialising in fashion.
1 portrait in the collection
Rosie Batty, 2017
Nikki Toole
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Commissioned with funds provided by the Circle of Friends 2017
The steam apprentice, 2009
by Gary Steer
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