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The Paddington Boarding House, 2025 Dion Georgopoulos

The Paddington Boarding House

Dion Georgopoulos
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The Salway family, 2020 Dion Georgopoulos

The Salway family

Dion Georgopoulos
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Wandella firestorm, 2020 Dion Georgopoulos

Wandella firestorm

Dion Georgopoulos
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Dion Georgopoulos video: 46 minutes

Dion Georgopoulos

Finalist interviews

An interview with Dion Georgopoulos, Finalist in the Living Memory National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)
Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)
Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)

Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong), 1893

Tom Roberts
Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2008

Ned, 2011 by Benjamin Liew

Ned, 2011

by Benjamin Liew
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The Lawn at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day
The Lawn at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day
The Lawn at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day

The Lawn at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day, c. 1889

Goupil & Cie after Carl Kahler
Portrait, photogravure on paper

Purchased 2009

Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)

Hilda Spong

Biography

Hilda Spong (1875-1955), actress, came to Australia with her family when she was thirteen.

1 portrait in the collection

Practising the Minuet (Miss Hilda Spong)

An actress and her fans

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2008

Dr. Sarah Engledow discovers the amazing life of Ms. Hilda Spong, little remembered star of the stage, who was captured in a portrait by Tom Roberts.
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