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Under the ‘Old Poor Law’, people begging on the streets could be arrested, so to avoid punishment, they often pretended to commerce, offering the most marginal of goods and services.
No small wonder
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2015
Joanna Gilmour describes how artist Sam Leach works on a small scale to grand effect.
Small worlds
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
Mark Loane
'The small space we are given'
Portrait story
Ophthalmic surgeon and former Wallabies Captain, Mark Loane, discusses his sporting and professional career.
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.
Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington), 1907
Sir Leslie Ward, Bemrose Dalziel Ltd, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Gift of Ronald Walker 2002
Margo Kingston, 2006
by Elaine Campaner
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Portraits together
For people living with dementia
Event, 10:30 – 11:30am, Second Monday of the month
We offer a free, tailor-made program for small groups of people living with dementia and their friends, families or carers.
Liangis Theatre
Spaces
A lovely lecture theatre with a small foyer space ideal for catering and registration.
Catherine, 2015
by Lynette Letic
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A look I’ve never seen before, 2014
by Ketakii Jewson-Brown
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William Johnson
Biography
William Johnson was a commercial photographer who operated a studio on the corner of Pitt and Market Streets in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s.
4 portraits in the collection
John Schaeffer AO - art collector and philanthropist, 2014
Evert Ploeg
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by Harold Mitchell AC 2015
Self portrait and landscape with a dead horse
Effie Mandalos
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Becoming (The Artist's Daughter)
Kathie Mason
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Old Parts, 2013
by Donna Stevens
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