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| I find myself attracted to hands. So during my visit to the Gallery, that is all I photographed. Hands in a photograph tell us a lot about the subject. Hands in a painting CAN tell us about the subject, but they can also tell us whether the artist truly valued hands, and paid them due attention.. ABOVE: the hands of Herbert Bradham as painted by Herbert Bradham Bradham (1899-1961) was a middle-order Australian artist, writer, and teacher Below: the hands of Sir MacFarlane Burnett (1899-1985) as painted by William Dargie Burnett was a medical scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1960. He was the first ever "Australian of the Year" in 1960 |
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| The National Portrait Gallery in Canberra opened in December 2008. |