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Gary Foley
Biography
Gary Foley (b. 1950) is a Gumbainggir activist, actor, historian, curator and academic.
2 portraits in the collection
Fiona Foley
Biography
Fiona Foley (b.1964), Badtjala artist, activist, curator and writer, grew up on Fraser Island and in nearby Hervey Bay before moving south to study art at the East Sydney Technical College.
2 portraits in the collection
Noel Stapleton
Biography
Noel Stapleton (1927-2017) commercial artist, began his career in Brisbane in 1944.
1 portrait in the collection
Noel Rubie
Biography
Noel Rubie (1901–1976) was a painter and photographer who had a portrait and industrial photography studio in Sydney and worked during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
1 portrait in the collection
Noel McGrowdie
Biography
Noel 'Digger' McGrowdie (1920-1961), jockey, was born in Brisbane and educated at a Christian Brothers School in Toowoomba before being apprenticed in Brisbane at the age of fourteen.
1 portrait in the collection
Noel Counihan
Biography
Noel Counihan, born in Melbourne, began his career as a press caricaturist, freelancing in Australia, New Zealand and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
1 portrait in the collection
Noel McKenna
Biography
Noel McKenna (b. 1956), artist, is best known for his spare linear style and paintings of everyday scenarios, often featuring animals and interiors.
2 portraits in the collection
Noel Fraser Hickey
Biography
Noel Fraser Hickey (1921–2010) was born in Kensington, in Sydney, New South Wales, a stone's throw from the Royal Randwick Racecourse.
1 portrait in the collection
Brian Dunlop
Biography
Brian Dunlop studied at East Sydney Technical College and won the Le Gay Brereton Prize for Drawing while still a student.
7 portraits in the collection
Frederick Lowry
Biography
Fred Lowry (1836-1863) was a stockman before he turned to cattle and horse duffing.
1 portrait in the collection
HJ Wedge
Biography
HJ Wedge (1957–2012), Wiradjuri artist, was born at Erambie mission near Cowra.
1 portrait in the collection
Djon Mundine OAM
Biography
Djon Mundine OAM (b. 1951), a Bundjalung man, is a curator, writer, artist and activist.
1 portrait in the collection
Phillip Noyce AO
Biography
Phillip Noyce AO (b. 1950), director, was part of the first student intake at the Australian Film and Television School in 1973.
2 portraits in the collection
Lady Florence Packer
Biography
Lady Florence Packer (1915-2012) was born in Paris to Edmond Porges, a major in the British Army, and his Russian wife Marie-Mathilde Brodsky.
1 portrait in the collection
Elaine Pelot-Syron
Biography
Elaine Pelot-Syron grew up in Miami and came to Australia to teach English in 1971.
1 portrait in the collection
Wilfred John Peisley
Biography
Wilfrid John Peisley, born in Bathurst, won a number of prizes at regional shows before gaining a scholarship to the East Sydney Technical College at the age of seventeen.
1 portrait in the collection