Josonia Palaitis (born 1949)[1] is an Australian artist living in Sydney, Australia. She won the 1994 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize[2] 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).[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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:
musician James Morrison (1993 Archibald finalist[6]),
television presenter Ray Martin (1996 Archibald finalist[7]),
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).[8][9]
Awards
Preceded by
Bill Leak
People's Choice Award 1995 for portrait of painter Bill Leak
Succeeded by
Robert Hannaford
^"Josonia Palaitis, b. 1949". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
^"Josonia Palaitis". Design and Art Australia Online. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
^Winner: People's Choice 1995, Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
^Leon Gettler (20 October 2007). "Like the bird, will the nation turn its back on the PM?". The Age.
^"Childers Backpacker Memorial". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
^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
^Daniel Dasey (26 March 2006). "Prize winner leaves the critics bemused". Sydney Morning Herald.
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