Michel Lawrence

Michel Lawrence was born in Sydney and grew up in Melbourne and has been photographing people all his life.

His work is represented in various private and public collections, most notably the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne University and a number of regional galleries including the large collection of portraits of Australian painters at the Castlemaine Gallery in Central Victoria.

His work also forms a part of the permanent collection of the Melbourne Performing Arts Museum and includes portraits of comedians, musicians, actors and theatrical producers from the 1970s and 1980s.

Michel has staged major exhibitions at Stuart Purves' Australian Galleries in both Melbourne and Sydney.

His book, Framed: Portraits of Australian Painters was published by Hardie Grant in 1998 and is now out of print.

His work has also been reproduced in major metropolitan newspapers and magazines such as The Australian, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, the Herald Sun, Good Weekend and Harpers Bazaar.

Website: http://allofus.com.au/

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