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You, looking at me
Magazine article by Elspeth Pitt, 2022
Elspeth Pitt chats with Archibald Prize-winning artist Yvette Coppersmith about performance, coincidences and the intersection of art and life.
Between life and death you’re a miracle
Magazine article by Elspeth Pitt, 2024
Elspeth Pitt talks to multidisciplinary artist Nell about ghosts, artistic lineages and hybrid art forms.
Turia Pitt
Biography
Turia Pitt (b. 1987), author, businesswoman, motivational speaker and athlete, grew up in Ulladulla, New South Wales and studied engineering and science at the University of NSW, graduating in 2010.
1 portrait in the collection
The Right Honourable William Pitt
Biography
William Pitt the Younger (1759-1806) was Tory prime minister of Great Britain from 1783 to 1801, and of United Kingdom from 1804 to 1806.
1 portrait in the collection
Turia Pitt, 2017 (printed 2021)
Peter Brew-Bevan
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2021
The Right Honourable William Pitt, 1799
Charles Brome after William Owen
Portrait, line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Portrait 68
Summer 2022/23
Magazine
Rebecca Ray on Robert Fielding’s Mayatjara series, Jennifer Higgie on Alice Neel, Elspeth Pitt chats with Yvette Coppersmith, Vincent Fantauzzo on virtual sittings with Hugh Jackman and more.
Reg Livermore, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1965 (printed 2020)
Robert McFarlane
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2020
George Rose
Biography
George Rose, joint Secretary of the British Treasury at the time of the First Fleet, joined the civil service after leaving the Royal Navy in 1762.
1 portrait in the collection
George Rose, 1811
Giovanni Vendramini, T Cadell & W Davies after William Evans, Sir William Beechey
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
In conversation with Colin Davidson
General content
Belfast-based artist, Colin Davidson talks about the fortuitous happenstances that led to him painting a range of famous faces (from Brad Pitt to the Queen, and everyone in between!)
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Magazine
Ryan Presley about portraiture, Emma Kindred on the career of Joan Ross, Ellie Buttrose looks at Archie Moore’s kith and kin, and Joanna Gilmour steps into the world of Julie Rrap.
William Johnson
Biography
William Johnson was a commercial photographer who operated a studio on the corner of Pitt and Market Streets in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s.
4 portraits in the collection
John Connell, c. 1830
Richard Read Jnr
Portrait, watercolour on paper laid on cardboard
Gift of Eleanor Thornton 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
John Davis
Biography
Alan Davies' and Peter Stanbury's The Mechanical Eye in Australia lists Sydney photographer John Davis (life dates unknown) as having a carte-de visite studio on King Street, and as working from addresses on Pitt and George Streets between 1870 and 1873..
1 portrait in the collection
Frances Samuel
Biography
Frances Samuel (1818-c. 1898) was a member of one of early Sydney's most significant Jewish settler families.
1 portrait in the collection