Josonia Palaitis
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Josonia Palaitis (born Josephine Mills, 28 June 1949)[1][2] is an Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia. She won the 1994 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize[3] with a portrait of her father artist John Mills. In 1995 she won the Archibald Prize People's Choice award with a portrait of Bill Leak (artist and cartoonist for the Australian Newspaper).[4]
The National Portrait Gallery commissioned her in 2000 to paint its first portrait of an Australian Prime Minister to include their spouse, a portrait of John Howard and his wife Janette.[5] In 2002 she was commissioned to paint the Childers Memorial Portrait which depicts the fifteen young backpackers who died in a hostel fire in Childers, Queensland in 2000.[6]
Her portrait Patrick Dodson, Yawuru Man, (of chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Pat Dodson), was a finalist in the 1998 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize and is in the collection of the National Library of Australia. Other prominent people she has painted include:
- politician John Howard (1980 Archibald finalist)[7]
- musician James Morrison (1993 Archibald finalist[8]),
- television presenter Ray Martin (1996 Archibald finalist[9]),
- Cardinal Edward Clancy (1998 Portia Geach Memorial Award finalist),
- journalist Paddy McGuinness (2003 Portia Geach Memorial Award finalist), and
- Justice Michael Kirby (2006 Archibald Prize finalist).[10][11]
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- ↑ Winner: People's Choice 1995, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
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- ↑ Finalists for 1993, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
- ↑ Finalists for 1996, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
- ↑ 2006 Archibald Finalist, Art Gallery of NSW
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