Canberra - Page 2

The National Gallery of Australia and The National Portrait Gallery

are two of the best galleries anywhere in the world!!

Here are a few favourites from this trip.....

Ian Thorpe @ The National Portrait Gallery Canberra

Taken by James Houston a Sydney-born photographer who took the first nude cover for Australian Vogue in 1997. In 1999 he shot the calendar for the Sydney Olympic Games. In 2000 he moved to the USA, where he is now a leading fashion, beauty and celebrity photographer.

Sue at one of the Virtual Reality stations @ The National Gallery of Australia

Blue Poles @ The National Gallery of Australia - Canberra

Blue Poles, also known as Number 11, 1952 is an abstract expressionist painting and one of the most famous works by American artist Jackson Pollock. It was purchased amid controversy by the National Gallery of Australia in 1973 and today remains one of the gallery's major paintings.

Part of the Tiffany Collection @ The National Gallery of Australia - Canberra

Anne Levy @ The National Portrait Gallery Canberra

Anne Levy AO (b. 1934) was the first female ever to preside in an Australian parliament. Gaining a master’s degree in 1963, she tutored at the University of Adelaide for many years and had two children before becoming an ALP member of the South Australian parliament in 1975. She was a member until 1997. She oversaw the Office of the Status of Women as well as the Consumer Affairs, Arts, Local Government and State Services portfolios at various periods, active in the areas of homosexual law reform, abortion law reform, euthanasia, rape law reform, childcare, maternity leave, equality in education for girls, equal pay and affirmative action. At the same time, she was a council member of the University of Adelaide; patron of the Humanist Society and 1986 Australian Humanist of the Year; a member of the Abortion Law Repeal Association; a founding member of the Family Planning Association; Patron of the Supporting Mothers Association of South Australia; a founding and life member and board chair of the National Foundation of Australian Women; an honorary life member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby; and a founding member of Emily’s List Australia. Having played a key role in the implementation of the Equal Opportunity Act in 1983, on 12 February 1986 at 11am she became President of the South Australian Legislative Council. Three hours later, Joan Child AO became speaker of the Federal House of Representatives.

Lee-Lin Chin @ The National Portrait Gallery Canberra

Lee-Lin Chin, broadcaster, was born in Indonesia and raised and schooled in Singapore, where in 1968 she began working in television and radio. After arriving in Australia in 1980 she worked as a translator of Chinese movies (she speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and Fukien). Having worked with ABC radio in Darwin and Newcastle, she became a newsreader with the multicultural and multilingual public broadcast channel, SBS, in 1988. She currently presents the weekend edition of SBS World News. As host of the network's Fashionista program she has built a reputation as a style authority, and has been able to indulge her self-confessed 'mania' for dressing up; a few years ago, she curated the exhibition of historical fashion photographs, Strike a Pose...With Lee Lin Chin at the National Archives of Australia, Canberra.