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Shane Maloney
Biography
Shane Maloney (b. 1953) is the creator of the popular 'Murray Whelan' series of six crime novels, beginning with Stiff (1994) and The Brush-Off (1996) and currently ending at Sucked In (2007).
1 portrait in the collection
Ted Maloney, 1955
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
The crime writer Shane Maloney, 2004
Rick Amor
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Shane Maloney and Rick Amor
'Big canvas, small head'
Portrait story
Artist Rick Amor and author Shane Maloney relate divergent experiences of the creation of Shane's portrait.
Mick Molloy, 2009
Andrew Maccoll
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2009
John Clarke
Biography
John Clarke (1948-2017), satirist and humourist, moved to Australia in the 1970s from New Zealand, where he had begun performing in university revues and was named Entertainer of the Year in 1976.
3 portraits in the collection
Rick Amor
21 Portraits
Previous exhibition, 2014
Rick Amor, noblest yet most unaffected of contemporary Australian portraitists, is also a painter of enigmatic, ominous landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes that haunt the viewer like dreams, dimly-recalled.
Open Air
Portraits in the Landscape
Previous exhibition, 2008
Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them.
Sketch of Clifton Pugh painting John Perceval, 1985
Rick Amor
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2016
Rick Amor: 21 Portraits
General content
Sarah Engledow chronicles Rick Amor's work and accomplishments in this extensive essay in conjunction with the exhibition Rick Amor: 21 Portraits.
Friends and Acquaintances
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2005
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.