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Ruth Maddison
Biography
Ruth Maddison began taking photographs in the mid-1970s and exhibited her Christmas Holiday with Bob’s Family – a series of hand-coloured, snapshot-style images mimicking scenes from a family photo album – at Ewing Gallery in Melbourne in 1979.
1 portrait in the collection
Sue Ford 1980-2006, 1980-2006 (printed 2013)
Ruth Maddison
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2013
Ruth Park AM
Biography
Ruth Park (1917–2010) was born in New Zealand and lived there until 1942.
1 portrait in the collection
Ruth Cracknell
Biography
Ruth Cracknell AM (1925–2002), actor, became a household name through her character Maggie Beare in the ABC comedy Mother and Son, which ran from 1985 to 1994.
1 portrait in the collection
The uncertain recovery, 2012
by Arianne McNaught
Image
Eden, 2011
by Arianne McNaught
Image
Ruth Park, 2000
Kilmeny Niland
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2000
Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl, 1995
Rosemary Valadon
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2000
Portrait 55
Summer 2016-2017
Magazine
Explore convict art, photography by Ruth Hollick and Collier Schorr, an interview with neurosurgeon Charlie Teo, portraiture on money, and more!
Kilmeny Niland
Biography
Kilmeny Niland the daughter of Ruth Park and D'Arcy Niland. was a well-known illustrator of children's books.
1 portrait in the collection
Family portrait
Fiona Bowring
Image
Reveries
Photography and mortality
Previous exhibition, 2007
Featuring works by Australian and New Zealand photographers from the late 1970s up to the present day Reveries focuses on images made in the presence of or consciousness of death.
![[Self-portrait], 1996](/files/5/e/2/e/i2030-slq.jpg "[Self-portrait], 1996")
Reveries
Magazine article by Helen Ennis, 2007
The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.
The Textiles Scientist, 2018
by Kate Atkinson
Image
Natural, artistic and unselfconscious
Magazine article by Angus Trumble, 2016
Angus Trumble gazes at the once bright star of photographer Ruth Hollick.
Reg Livermore, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1965 (printed 2020)
Robert McFarlane
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2020