Consignment received 2023, 1954-2022

Component identifier:

Class MS Acc23.046

Extent:

(13 MS boxes + 1 medium folio box + 1 small folio box + 12 folders + 10 digital carriers)

Content Summary:

This consignment comprises mostly colour photographs, negatives and transparency slides of Janet Venn-Brown's works drawn from her travels through the Middle East and Europe. Her exhibitions overseas and in Australia are documented in notebooks, flyers and invitations and guestbooks. Books, magazine articles and catalogues also detail works about Venn-Brown.There are transcripts, research material and published copies of Venn-Brown's book about her murdered fiancé 'For A Palestinian: a memorial to Wael Zuaiter'. An intended new edition edited by Venn-Brown and Peter Manning can be seen in research material and a proposal. Associated papers are copies of the trial verdict and printouts of the website article 'Murdered for being Palestinian: Wael Zuaiter remembered 40 years on'. Research papers of Peter Manning's biography 'Janet Venn-Brown: a life in art' including notes, correspondence and interview transcripts with Lesley Dimmick, Clive Lucas, Wendy Littlewood, Barbara Fisher, Susan Palmer-Ward, Clodagh Harrison, Correspondence with David Malouf, Egidio and Favia Scardamaglia. Felix Venn-Brown, Bruno Cagli, Silvio Tongiani, Bill Tait.Material highlighting Venn-Brown's contributions in working for human rights for the Palestinian people include copies of speeches, interview transcripts, certificates of appreciation and a wall plaque. Of note is a Certificate from the Parliament of NSW Official honour Janet's work for the Palestinian community. with one photograph of note is of Janet with Yasser Arafat, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).Personal items include postcards, birthday cards, and photographs with family and friends at Janet's residence in Rome, and later in Glebe, Sydney. Sketchbooks (2008-2015) and ephemera show Janet continued an active role in the arts, exhibiting late in life until her 90's.

Extent information:

3.06 metres,

Subjects:

Arts
Politics and government

Contents

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