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Rosemary Valadon
Biography
Rosemary Valadon (b. 1947) is a Sydney artist best known for large-scale oil paintings characterised by theatricality and opulence and informed with irony and feminism.
2 portraits in the collection
Rosemary Dobson
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1959
Rosemary Dobson, 1981
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Rex Dupain 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Rosemary Madigan, 1992
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Rosemary Valadon, 1995
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Alice Giles, 1984
Rosemary Madigan
Portrait, pastel on paper
Gift of Alice Giles AM, in memory of her mother Rosemary Madigan 2023
Robert Klippel, c. 1990
Rosemary Madigan
Portrait, pastel on paper
Purchased 2020
Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl, 1995
Rosemary Valadon
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2000
2021
Portrait Donors
Self portrait, 1900
Agnes Goodsir
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Rosemary Neilson 2021
Glenn Murcutt, 2006
Anthony Browell
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Rosemary and Robert Walsh 2006
2023
Portrait Donors
Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize 2024
Previous exhibition, 2024
Launched at the National Portrait Gallery in 2022, the Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize is a competition for primary and secondary students, with four separate age categories across Kindergarten to Year 12.
Donors
$25,000+
Honour board
2006
Portrait Donors
David Brooks
Biography
David Brooks, poet, literary critic and academic, studied in the early 1970s at the Australian National University, where he fell in with a group of Canberra writers including AD Hope, Rosemary Dobson, David Campbell and Judith Wright and co-founded Open Door Press with Alan Gould.
1 portrait in the collection