A portrait miniature is a miniature portrait painting, usually executed in gouache, watercolor, or enamel. Portrait miniatures developed out of the techniques of the miniatures in illuminated manuscripts, and were popular among 16th-century elites, mainly in England and France, and spread across the… Read More “Miniature portrait paintings”
Ningura Naparrula (Australian Aboriginal 1938 – 2013)
Ningura Naparrula was born in 1938 near Kiwirrkura community in the Gibson Desert 700 km west of Alice Springs. Naparrula and her husband Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi walked to Papunya with their whole family group as part of a general migra… Read More “Ningura Naparrula (Australian Aboriginal 1938 – 2013) Bio”
Kevin Joseph “Bulldog” Murray MBE (1938-)
Kevin is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Fitzroy Football Club in the Victorian Football League in 333 games over 18 seasons. Murray’s father Dan also played for Fitzroy, including in their 1944 VFL Grand Final victory… Read More “Kevin Murray (1938-) (Fitzroy Football Club) Bio”
John Nicholls (1939-)
John is a former Australian rules footballer who represented Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nicholls is widely regarded as one of Australian football’s greatest players. He was the first Carlton footballer to play 300 games and was declared the club’… Read More “John Nicholls (1939-) (Carlton Football Club) Bio”
Joseph (Zepp) Cassar (Malta Australian 1962-) Bio
Zepp Cassar is an internationally acclaimed abstract figurative and landscape painter who spends most of his time working between Sydney, France, China, and Malta Zepp is seen as an established Maltese-Australian artist, born in 1962, he was largely i… Read More “Zepp Cassar (Malta Australian 1962-)”
Henry Christian “Harry” Hopman, CBE (Australian 1934-1985) Bio
Harry was a world-acclaimed Australian tennis player and coach. Harry was born in Glebe, Sydney, New South Wales, before his family moved to Parramatta, Hopman was a student at Rosehill Public Primary (elementary) school, wher… Read More “Harry Hopman (Australian 1934-1985)”
Kenneth “Ken” Robert Rosewall AM, MBE (Australian 1934-) Bio
Ken is a former world top-ranking amateur and professional tennis player from Australia. He won a record 23 tennis Majors, including 8 Grand Slam singles titles and, before the Open Era, a record 15 Pro Slam titles, overall, he reached a re… Read More “Ken Rosewall (Australian 1934-)”
Gary James Shead (Australian 1942-) Bio
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Gary is an Australian painter, print maker, cartoonist, photographer, and filmmaker, early in his youth whilst at secondary school in the 1950s Gary won numerous art prize and in 1961 he attended the National Art School (NAS) Sy… Read More “Gary James Shead (Australian 1942-)”
Max Sherlock (Australian 1925-) Bio
Max was Born in Victoria in 1925, He studied at the National Gallery School 1941-42, with Max Meldrum in Melbourne 1941, then after serving his country with the RAN during WW11, he studied with Clifton Pugh and Frank Werther 1958-60, he travelled and studied in Eur… Read More “Max Sherlock (Australian 1925-)”
Lutheran missionaries Hermann Kemp and Wilhelm F Schwarz established the Hermannsburg Mission in 1877 in the traditional lands of the Western Aranda people.
The Traditional Lands where the Hermannsburg mission was established is know as Ntaria, Ntaria is a sacred site west southwest of Alice Springs … Read More “Hermannsburg Mission and School”