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Mona Hessing
Biography
Mona Hessing (1933-2001) weaver, was described as having made a 'very significant contribution from the late 1960s into the 1980s to the development of weaving as monumental public sculpture.
1 portrait in the collection
Mona Hessing, 1973
Anthony Browell
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Marea Gazzard, c. 1985
Lewis Morley
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Marea Gazzard, 1966
Judy Cassab AO CBE
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Marea Gazzard 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Marea Gazzard, Paddington, Sydney, 1963 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
Marea Gazzard AM
Biography
Marea Gazzard AM (1928–2013), ceramic artist, trained at the East Sydney Technical College and London Central School for Arts and Craft.
3 portraits in the collection
Arthur and Ria Murch, 1945
Margaret Michaelis
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
David Walsh
Biography
David Walsh (b. 1961), professional gambler, art collector and gallerist, established Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA).
1 portrait in the collection
That's not my mother, 2018
by Rosa Voss
Image
Ria Murch
Biography
Ria Murch (1918-2014), writer and muse, was brought up in King’s Cross and attended the Thosophist school in Mosman before acquiring secretarial skills at Miss Hales Business College.
1 portrait in the collection
Geoffrey Dyer
Biography
Geoff Dyer (1947-2020) was renowned landscape and portrait painter whose practice depicted Tasmania and its people.
1 portrait in the collection
Martha Kermode, c. 1840
Henry Mundy
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
Robert Kermode, c. 1840
Henry Mundy
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
Robert Kermode
Biography
Robert Quayle Kermode (1812-1870), politician, was born on the Isle of Man and educated at Castletown.
1 portrait in the collection
The Huxleys
Biography
Will Huxley grew up in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, and Garrett Huxley was raised on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
3 portraits in the collection
Portrait of Nell #15, 2009
Richard Larter
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint, gesso, binder medium, gel and glitter on canvas
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2014