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Vali Myers
'A friend in a lift'
Portrait story
Interview with Vali Myers' friend, Dimmi, the lift-attendant at the Nicholas Building in Melbourne.
Vali Myers
Biography
Vali Myers (1930-2003) artist, vagabond and agitator, was born near Box Hill and moved to Melbourne at the age of eleven.
1 portrait in the collection
Vali Myers, 2001
Eva Collins
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Not so remote, 2014
by Philip Myers
Image
Return, 2016
by Philip Myers
Image
Return (Balang T.E. Lewis), 2016
Philip Myers
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2019
Barry Jones, 2020
Louise Hearman
Portrait, oil on masonite
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC, Allan Myers AC KC and Maria Myers AC 2022
DJ Lady Erica, 2019
Sean Burton
Image
Donors
$10,000 - $49,999
Honour board
Davida Allen
Biography
Davida Allen is a Queensland artist. As a student at Brisbane's Stuartholme School in the 1960s she had Betty Churcher as an art teacher.
2 portraits in the collection
hey, Betty (Portrait of Betty Churcher), 1990
Davida Allen
Portrait, oil on plywood
Gift of the artist 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Good, bad and the ugly
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2007
Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.
Talma Studios, Sydney
Biography
Talma Studios opened in Sydney in March 1899 in a George Street premises next door to the GPO.
1 portrait in the collection
Stubbs and the horse
About Face article
One of the chief aims of George Stubbs, 1724–1806, the late Judy Egerton’s great 1984–85 exhibition at the Tate Gallery was to provide an eloquent rebuttal to Josiah Wedgwood’s famous remark of 1780: “Noboby suspects Mr Stubs [sic] of painting anything but horses & lions, or dogs & tigers.”
The more things change...
NPPP 2017 exhibition essay
General content
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.
Portrait Donors
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Honour board