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Professor Germaine Greer

Dr Germaine Greer

Biography

Germaine Greer (b. 1939), writer, critic and academic, is the author of the influential feminist book, The Female Eunuch (1970), which examines the ways in which passivity in women has been encouraged.

2 portraits in the collection

Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer, 1988

Jacqueline Mitelman
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 1999

Professor Germaine Greer

Polly Borland on Germaine Greer

In their own words
In their own words

Recorded 2017
Professor Germaine Greer
Professor Germaine Greer
Professor Germaine Greer

Professor Germaine Greer, 1999

Polly Borland
Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2001

Dame Edna Everage

Bare

Degrees of undress
Previous exhibition, 2015

Bare: Degrees of undress celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin. 
image not online

Robert Whitaker

Biography

Robert Whitaker, English photographer, spent three years in Melbourne in the early 1960s, becoming friends with Mirka and Georges Mora, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer, the Heide crowd and Martin Sharp and Richard Neville.

1 portrait in the collection

Elle Macpherson

Polly Borland

Australians
Previous exhibition, 2001

Polly Borland: Australians, is an exhibition of 54 new portraits of significant Australians who have made a contribution to British life and who have largely made their home or based their professional life in the UK
Rosemary Valadon

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

Harmony (Self portrait), c. 1927-1929 Paule Vézelay

Harmony (Self portrait)

Paule Vézelay
Image
Clive James

Clive James AO CBE

Biography

Clive James AM (1939-2019), writer, broadcaster and critic, grew up in Sydney, attending Hurstville Opportunity School, Sydney Tech.

1 portrait in the collection

Clive James
Clive James
Clive James

Clive James, 1999

Polly Borland
Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2001

Margaret Fink
Margaret Fink
Margaret Fink

Margaret Fink, 1989

Kerrie Lester
Portrait, oil and hand-stitching with diamantes on canvas

Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Dame Edna Everage

All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress

13 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015

This exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
Ian Thorpe

Collection: Icons

Volume Two
Previous exhibition, 2018

The second instalment of a display featuring bold contemporary portraits drawn from the collection. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.
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All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress

22 July 2015
Archived media releases 2015

A new exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and the fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
Mel Gibson

POL

Portrait of a Generation
Previous exhibition, 2003

POL was a magazine that ran from 1969 to 1986
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