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After Ophelia: Fiona Foley at Lake Mackenzie, Fraser Island (Referencing Ophelia by John Everett Millais)

Fiona Foley

Fiona Foley (b.1964), Badtjala artist, activist, curator and writer, grew up on Fraser Island and in nearby Hervey Bay before moving south to study art at the East Sydney Technical College.

2 portraits in the collection

Creature from the Black Platoon starring Gary Foley 2011

Gary Foley

Gary Foley (b. 1950) is a Gumbainggir activist, actor, historian, curator and academic.

2 portraits in the collection

Dr Fiona Wood AM

Fiona Wood AM

Fiona Wood (b.1958), plastic and reconstructive surgeon, is co-founder of the biotech company Clinical Cell Culture Limited (known as C3), which pioneers and commercialises treatments for burns.

1 portrait in the collection

Fiona Stanley

Fiona Stanley AC

Fiona Stanley AC (b. 1946), paediatric epidemiologist, is a passionate advocate for children and young people.

2 portraits in the collection

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Fiona Lowry

Fiona Lowry is a Sydney-based artist. Having held her first solo exhibition in 2002, she exhibited at Sydney’s Gallery Barry Keldoulis from 2004 to 2010; from 2010 she was also represented by Hugo Michell in Adelaide, and she is currently handled by Martin Browne Contemporary in Sydney.

1 portrait in the collection

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Fiona McMonagle

Fiona McMonagle, an Irish-born, Melbourne-based artist, grew up in an outer suburb of Melbourne and completed a qualification in visual arts at RMIT before progressing to the Victorian College of the Arts.

1 portrait in the collection

H J Wedge

HJ Wedge

HJ Wedge (1957–2012), Wiradjuri artist, was born at Erambie mission near Cowra.

1 portrait in the collection

Djon

Djon Mundine OAM

Djon Mundine OAM, a Bundjalung man, is a curator, writer, artist and activist.

1 portrait in the collection

Roslyn

Roslyn Oxley

Roslyn Oxley AM, gallerist and art dealer, was born Roslyn Walton, the daughter of John Walton, owner of the department store Waltons.

1 portrait in the collection

Martha Knox

Martha Knox

Martha Knox (née Rutledge, d. 1903), was the sister of merchant, landowner and banker William Rutledge.

1 portrait in the collection

Scrapbook page featuring portraits of Fred Lowry and Frank Gardiner

Frederick Lowry

Fred Lowry (1836-1863) was a stockman before he turned to cattle and horse duffing.

1 portrait in the collection

Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce (b. 1950), director, was part of the first student intake at the Australian Film and Television School in 1973.

2 portraits in the collection

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Mary Moore

Mary Moore (b. 1957) is a West Australian portrait artist. She began formal art training in Claremont at the age of fifteen, later attending the Western Australian Institute of Technology and Royal College of Art, London.

4 portraits in the collection

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Elaine Pelot-Syron

Elaine Pelot-Syron grew up in Miami and came to Australia to teach English in 1971.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait of Brian Dunlop

Brian Dunlop

Brian Dunlop studied at East Sydney Technical College and won the Le Gay Brereton Prize for Drawing while still a student.

7 portraits in the collection

Sir Frank Packer KBE

Sir Frank Packer

Sir Douglas Frank Hewson Packer KBE (1906-1974), media proprietor, grew up in Sydney and became a cadet journalist on the Daily Guardian, owned by his father RC Packer, in 1923.

2 portraits in the collection

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