• Title
  Portrait of the Hon. Linda Burney at the Turning Point, 23 April 2023 / photograph by Juno Gemes
• Creator
  Juno Gemes, 1944-
• Call number
  PXX 123
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  23 April 2023
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  9676293
• Physical Description
  1 photograph - digital, TIFF, black and white
  1 photographic print - 109 x 80 cm - on paper
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  The Honourable Linda Burney is the Minister for Indigenous Australians and the Member for Barton. A proud member of the Wiradjuri nation, Linda was the first Aboriginal person to be elected to the NSW Parliament and the first Aboriginal woman to serve in the House of Representatives.
  
  Linda Burney and photographer Juno Gemes have been close friends since meeting in 1985. This portrait is a collaboration created while Burney was staying with Gemes to celebrate her birthday on the Hawkesbury River during the campaign for the Voice to Parliament Referendum. This portrait was a finalist in the Olive Cotton Award for photographic portraiture 2023, Tweed Heads and was exhibited from Friday 14 July to Sunday 24 September 2023 at Tweed Regional Gallery.
  
  References:
  Compiled from the Library’s acquisition file
  Juno Gemes, Artist Statement, 2023
• Scope and Content
  This collection comprises one a high-res edited TIFF file of Linda Burney reclining in an armchair on the eve of her birthday taken whilst Burney was staying with the photographer on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales.
  
  It also includes one duotone print on fine art paper at call no. PXX 123 which was exhibited at Tweed Regional Gallery as part of the Olive Cotton Award exhibition 2023.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: Juno Gemes
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Juno Gemes
• Description source
  
  Titled by photographer
• Subject
  Burney, L. (Linda)--Portraits.
  Politics and government - Politicians - Parliamentarians - Indigenous representation
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20809493

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