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Bill Reid, 1979

Juno Gemes

gelatin silver photograph (sheet: 60.8 cm x 51.0 cm, image: 44.2 cm x 31.7 cm)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Accession number: 2004.155

Currently not on display

Artist and subject

Juno Gemes (age 35 in 1979)

Bill Reid

Subject professions

Indigenous identity

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Juno Gemes (19 portraits)

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Kevin Gilbert and Joe in discussion outside Anti-Bicentennial and Treaty Meeting Balmain Town Hall Sydney, 1987 Juno Gemes

Jeffrey Samuels, Boomalli workshop, 2003 Juno Gemes

Oodgeroo Noonuccal at Moongalba Stradbroke Island (her sitting down place)1982 Juno Gemes

Matilda House presides at the first Welcome to Country, 2008 (printed 2009) Juno Gemes

1. Kevin Gilbert and Joe in discussion outside Anti-Bicentennial and Treaty Meeting Balmain Town Hall Sydney, 1987. 2. Jeffrey Samuels, Boomalli workshop, 2003. 3. Oodgeroo Noonuccal at Moongalba Stradbroke Island (her sitting down place)1982. 4. Matilda House presides at the first Welcome to Country, 2008 (printed 2009). All Juno Gemes.

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