Papers of Janet Venn-Brown, 1964-2016
- Bib ID:
- 7251465
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Venn-Brown, Janet, 1924-2021
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item. MS 10291 copy
- Related Online Resources:
- Finding aid at National Library of Australia
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [between 1954 and 2022]
- 8.56 m (31 boxes) + 2 map folios + 3 folio boxes + 12 folders + 10 audiovisual carriers + 14 digital carriers.
- Summary:
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MS 10291 comprises papers relating to Wael Zuaiter, Palestine and Janet Venn-Brown's artistic career, including diaries and notebooks covering daily life and several trips between 1979-2006 to Jordan, Syria and Palestine; correspondence with family, friends and associates; video and audio cassettes; photographs and exhibition invites; publicity and catalogues (18 boxes, 2 map folios, 1 folio box).
MS Acc23.046 includes 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, 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 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. Other papers include copies of the trial verdict and printouts of the website article Murdered for being Palestinian: Wael Zuaiter remembered 40 years on.
The collection includes papers related to 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; and correspondence with David Malouf, Egidio and Favia Scardamaglia, Felix Venn-Brown, Bruno Cagli, Silvio Tongiani and Bill Tait. There is also material highlighting Venn-Brown’s contributions working for human rights for the Palestinian people including copies of speeches, interview transcripts, certificates of appreciation, a wall plaque, a Certificate from the Parliament of N.S.W. officially honouring Janet’s work for the Palestinian community and a photograph of Janet with Yasser Arafat, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The collection also contains personal items including postcards, birthday cards, photographs with family and friends at Janet’s residence in Rome, and later in Glebe, Sydney, sketchbooks (2008-2015) and ephemera which show that Janet continued an active role in the arts, exhibiting late in life until her nineties (13 boxes, 1 medium folio box, 1 small folio box, 11 folders, 10 digital carriers).
- Biography/History:
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Janet Venn-Brown was born in Sydney in 1924, grew up in Drummoyne and went to school at Presbyterian Ladies College, Croydon. She undertook secretarial studies working at Angus and Robertson bookshop and Ure Smith Publishers, and studied painting in evening classes with Guiseppe Bisietta. She stopped in Italy on her way to England in 1952, returned there and remained for 44 years living in Rome. Her work has been exhibited in Naples, Rome, London, Amman, Baghdad and Sydney, where she returned to live in 2008. Janet Venn-Brown edited Per un Palestinese (Milan, Mazotta Editore, 1979) as a memorial to her partner, the exiled Palestinian intellectual Wael Zuaiter, killed by Israeli security forces on 16 October 1972 in retaliation for the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. An English translation, For a Palestinian: a memorial to Wael Zuaiter was published by Kegan Paul International in 1984.
- Notes:
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- Manuscript reference number: MS 10291.
- Reading Room Access Note: For preservation reasons, we are unable to deliver digital and audiovisual carriers to the Special Collections Reading Room. Please contact Ask a Librarian to enquire about access.
- MS 10291 copy Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-346516058
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Finding aid available online.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1954-2022
- Terms of Use:
- Copying of Janet Venn-Brown's copyright material is permitted for research purposes.
- Copyright:
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- A Manuscript Collection may have a range of formats and dates.
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
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