Art & Heritage Collections
Portraiture of Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors has become a tradition at the University. Portraits of Chancellors are on display in Bonython Hall, while those of Vice-Chancellors can be seen in the Mitchell Building. Over the years, rather formal and even strict portraiture has been the University's favoured way of capturing key personalities, but in the last 10 years or so we have relaxed and broadened this approach. We now seek to represent more of the person in the portrait - to tell a story about them, as it were. Danelle Bergstrom, a Sydney-based artist with an established art practice in both landscape and portraiture, was commissioned to paint a portrait of the most recent former Chancellor, the Hon. John von Doussa AO QC, who retired last July. Bergstrom's light touch with paint allows the faces of her subjects to emerge as shimmering personal landscapes. The expression as depicted on the Chancellor's face is one that those who have known him will recognise. It will remind us of his exceptional compassion and astute intelligence. The portrait is now on display in Bonython Hall. Mirna Heruc, Manager, Art & Heritage Collections
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