Jacqueline Mitelman was born in Scotland, and has lived in Melbourne, Australia most of her life apart from a period of years living in France.

Since studying at Prahran college in the mid seventies, under the tutelage of Athol Shmith, Paul Cox, & John Cato, she has worked as a freelance photographer specialising in portraiture.

Her work has appeared in Australia and internationally in magazines and newspapers, on CD and book covers, on theatre and music posters.

A wide range of private commissions has resulted in a considerable collection of portraits of culturally significant Australians.

Major Collections

National Library of Australia Canberra, Australia
Folio of 90 Portraits of distinguished Australians exhibited on the National Library of Australia's Web Site

National Portrait Gallery Canberra, Australia
Portrait of Christina Stead on exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
Portrait of Germaine Greer on exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
Portrait of Marilyn Darling Chair, National Portrait Gallery

Defence Force Academy Library Canberra, Australia
Folio of 50 portraits of writers

National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Australia

Latrobe Library of the State Library of Victoria Melbourne, Australia

Museum of Modern Art at Heide Melbourne, Australia

Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery Hobart, Australia

Acknowledgement

"I wish to say that I personally consider Jacqueline Mitelman the outstanding portrait photographer in this country... I know that it is of the highest artistic standard in this special field of portrait photography" - Georges Mora

Exhibitions

J-Space Center
for Contemporary Art
October 8 - 25 2002

Investigations
Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park
January 3 - February 10 2002

Melbourne Herald
Preview January 2 2002

Dog Portraits
Waverley City Gallery
November-January 1999

An exhibition of 50 b+w large format portraits of dogs

Melbourne Age

"These subjects are approached with reverence and deliberation and, like a human portrait, strive towards an inner essence by mapping the creature's eyes and body language. There's much to be learnt from Mitelman's comic yet serious transposition of dogs into human guise. The anthropomorphic quality of her subjects is both inviting and vaguely disturbing.." - Anna Clabburn for The Melbourne Age January 20 1999

Thomas Shapcott
"The great wit of these images, and their disturbing poignancy, is precisely this tension between what is present and what is absent. What is present, certainly, is that sense of delight, even of recognition, by which we are compelled to observe the quality of animal in these portraits. Just below the surface, of course, is the quality of recognition of a further aspect, one we almost grab at with relief in order to inhabit it: the quality of humanness within the otherness of these faces." - Thomas Shapcott October 1998

Publication

Faces of Australia
120 full page plates
published Melbourne Lothian 1988 1st edition pp132

The Australian

"Mitelman has a keen sense of character and pose. Her sitters, all distinguished and innovative Australians, method-act themselves to the point of self-caricature.." - Catriona Moore for The Australian January 28 1989

Available from:
BSP Gallery Bookshop
589 Hampton Street  Hampton  Victoria  3188   Australia
http://www.bspgallery.com.au/aust%20i-z.htm"

CDs, Books & Magazines

plays Rebetika Live at the Retreat
Apodimi Compania
Taxim 2000

Yesterday is Now
David Campbell
Polygram 1996

Deeper Water
Paul Kelly
Vanguard Records 1995

Don't Start Me Talking
Paul Kelly
Allen & Unwin 1999

Calendar Competition
Cafe Provincial 1999

Steven Vaughan
Investor Weekly
February 2000

Links to Web Sites

featuring Imagery by Jacqueline Mitelman