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MS 10291, MS Acc23.046

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Created: September 2023

Collection Summary

Creator: Venn-Brown, Janet
Title: Papers of Janet Venn-Brown
Date Range: 1954 - 2022
Collection Number: MS 10291, MS Acc23.046
Extent: 8.56 metres (31 ms boxes + 2 map folios + 3 folio box + 12 folders + 10 audiovisual carriers + 4 digital carriers)
Language of Materials: English
Repository: Special Collections (Manuscripts)

Introduction

Content Description

The original MS 10291 collection 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 ms boxes + 2 folio boxes + 1 shared box)

The 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 consignment 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 consignment 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, 3 digital carriers).

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Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Janet Venn-Brown, National Library of Australia, [class/series/file/item number(s)]'.

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Biographical / Historical

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.

Janet died in Glebe, Sydney 2022.

Item Descriptions

Class MS Acc16.150. Consignment received 2016, 1964 - 2016

This consignment includes papers relating Wael Zuaiter, Palestine, Janet Venn-Brown's artistic career and includes 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.

Series. Diaries, Notebooks, Journals

Australia, 1979 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Australia, 1983-1984 (File 2) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Australia, 2006 (File 3) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Australia, 2006 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Book of Sketches; London Exhibition, 1984 (File 5) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Jordan; Palestine, 1994-1995 (File 6) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Jordan; Palestine, 1986 (File 7) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Syria, 1983 (File 8) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Amman, 1986 (File 9) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2005-2008 (File 10) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1995-1999 (File 11) - Box 1 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1979 (File 12) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1990 (File 13) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1991 (File 14) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1992 (File 15) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1992 (File 16) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1993 (File 17) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1994 (File 18) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1995 (File 19) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1995 (File 20) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1997 (File 21) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1997 (File 22) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1998 (File 23) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 1999 (File 24) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2001 (File 25) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2004 (File 26) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2007 (File 27) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2008 (File 28) - Box 2 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2009 (File 29) - Box 3 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2006 (File 30) - Box 3 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2011 (File 31) - Box 3 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2012 (File 32) - Box 3 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2013 (File 33) - Box 3 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2014 (File 34) - Box 3 (MS 10291)

Appointment Diary, 2015 (File 35) - Box 3 (MS 10291)

Notebook (File 36) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook- some books I have read, 1978-1999 (File 37) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook (File 38) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Visitors book, 2006 (File 39) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook, 1999 (File 40) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Exhibition Invitations, 2012-2013 (File 41) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook- to paint, 2014-2015 (File 42) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook (File 43) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook-For a Palestinian permanent new edition (File 44) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook-Arab Diary Wael biography (File 45) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notes/Addresses Australia (File 46) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook-Wael Week, 2004 (File 47) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook (File 48) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook, 2007 (File 49) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook- to paint, 2014 (File 50) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook- books taken by Desmond O'Grady, 2008 (File 51) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook- to paint, to invite Mint gallery (File 52) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

General notebook and references (File 53) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Address books x 3 (File 54) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Address books x 2 (File 55) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Address books x 2 (File 56) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Loose business cards (File 57) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Business cards in wallet (File 58) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Notebook/address book (File 59) - Box 4 (MS 10291)

Series. Video and Audio cassettes

VHS Videocassettes x 3 - Palestine Negata:la resistenza civile di un popolo (1992); 20th Century Newsreels Part 1; Un Diario Arabo: Janet Venn Brown (1994), 1992-1994 (File 60) - Box 5 (MS 10291)

Accademia D'Egitto - Roma - Mostra di Pittura: "Un Diario Arabo" 4 November 1994, 4/11/1994 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013431) - Shelf-Tall OH1-19-030

1 item, Sony E120, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc

20th Century Newsreels Part 1 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013432) - Shelf-Tall OH1-19-030

1 item, E100, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc

Palestina Negata - La resistenza civile di un popolo. Associazione medica italo - palestinese. SUNORD scrl 1992, Feb-92 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013433) - Shelf-Tall OH1-19-030

1 item, E120, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc

More info in Italian on case

VHS Videocassettes x 2 - Promesse (2000); States of Terror: Israel (1993), 1993-2000 (File 61) - Box 5 (MS 10291)

Promesse Medio Oriente. Il Racconto dei Bambini Cresciuti con la Guerra. Oscar nomination 2002., 2000 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013434) - Shelf-Tall OH1-19-030

1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc

Promises Film Project 2000 - more info on case.

States of Terror - Isreal [sic] 09/11/1993, 9/11/1993 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013435) - Shelf-Tall OH1-19-030

1 item, E60, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc

BBCtv viewing tape - More info on case

VHS Videocassettes x 3 - Postcards from Italy; Che Nessuno Pianga; Janet Venn Brown: an Arabian journey (File 62) - Box 5 (MS 10291)

"Postcards from Italy" (Item NLA.MS-SAV013436) - Shelf-Tall OH1-19-030

1 item, Panasonic E60, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc

[difficult to read] An [?] journey (Item NLA.MS-SAV013437) - Shelf-Tall OH1-19-030

1 item, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc

"che Nessuno Dianga" Dr Maren Karlinsky Prod Coop Suttvuess (Item NLA.MS-SAV013438) - Shelf-Tall OH1-19-030

1 item, E120, Consumer formats - VHS, S-VHS etc

DVD x 1 - Waltz with Bashir, 2008 (File 63) - Box 5 (MS 10291)

Waltz with Bashir. A Film by Ari Folman, 2008 (Item NLA.MS-DM004665) - Digital-Carriers-Box 92

1 item, Madman, Published DVDs (MPEG-2 encoded)

More info on DVD case

Audio Cassettes x 2 - Interview with Janet Venn-Brown on Italian National Broadcaster RAI (1985); Home recording of piano (File 64) - Box 5 (MS 10291)

Interview on RAI (Italian National Broadcaster) Programme "Ora d'?" 24/09/1985 - In Italian when she was in Rome, 24/09/1985 (Item NLA.MS-SAV013439) - Cassette-Box 635

1 item, Compact cassette C30, Compact cassette tape

Home recording of piano playing with occasional Italian Introductions (Item NLA.MS-SAV013440) - Cassette-Box 635

1 item, Sony HF60, Compact cassette tape

Another recording laid over the top for the first 50 seconds - Appears like the tape was used in an answering machine at some point. Has gaps with silence - one side only

Series. Photographic material

Small Photographic Albums x 4 of Janet Venn-Brown artworks, colour (File 65) - Box 6 (MS 10291)

Small Photographic Albums x 2 plus loose colour photographs and colour medium format transparencies of Janet Venn-Brown artworks (File 66) - Box 6 (MS 10291)

Small Photographic Albums x 4- family and friends in Australia & Rome and travel to Oman, colour (File 67) - Box 6 (MS 10291)

Small Photographic Albums x 4- family and friends in Australia & Rome (File 68) - Box 6 (MS 10291)

Loose colour photographs of Janet Venn-Brown artworks (File 69) - Box 6 (MS 10291)

Medium format colour transparencies 15 x 6"x6" and 8 x 35mm colour transparencies (File 70) - Box 6 (MS 10291)

CD/DVD of photographs x 4 (File 71) - Box 6 (MS 10291)

St. John's area #1 (Item NLA.MS-DM004666) - Digital-Carriers-Box 92

1 item, Photo Express, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)

St. John's area #2 (Item NLA.MS-DM004667) - Digital-Carriers-Box 92

1 item, Photo Express, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)

First Days in Aust. (Item NLA.MS-DM004668) - Digital-Carriers-Box 92

1 item, Photo Express, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)

Photos Janet about 2007. Venise. Aude Moreau., 2007 (Item NLA.MS-DM004669) - Digital-Carriers-Box 92

1 item, Nexxtech 700Mb, Data CD (any content on recordable CD-R)

Black & White and Colour photographs and negatives of Wael Zuaiter (File 72) - Box 7 (MS 10291)

Black & White and Colour photographs and negatives of Janet Venn-Brown- passport (File 73) - Box 7 (MS 10291)

Loose colour photographs and 35mm negatives 'Rome' (File 74) - Box 7 (MS 10291)

Loose colour photographs 'Sydney' (File 75) - Box 7 (MS 10291)

Series. Correspondence concerning books and exhibition projects

Arab Sketches book 1987-2001, including with Maher Kayyali, Union of Arab Publishers, 1987-2001 (File 76) - Box 8 (MS 10291)

The Book (Per un Palestinese/For a Palestinian) mostly carbon copies of letters from Janet Venn-Brown, 1975-1978 (File 77) - Box 8 (MS 10291)

The Book (Per un Palestinese/For a Palestinian) includes letters from supporters, publishers and contributors; including Noam Chomsky, Fulvio D'Amoja, Andrew Faulds MP, Antonio Gambino, Moshe Menuhin, Trevor Mostyn, Domenico Pertocoli, Maxime Rodinson, Georges Saidah, Ismail Shammout, Rene Tavernier, Elia Zureik and Omar Zuaiter, 1979-1981 (File 78) - Box 8 (MS 10291)

The Book (Per un Palestinese/For a Palestinian) includes letters from supporters, publishers and contributors; including Noam Chomsky, Fulvio D'Amoja, Andrew Faulds MP, Antonio Gambino, Moshe Menuhin, Trevor Mostyn, Domenico Pertocoli, Maxime Rodinson, Georges Saidah, Ismail Shammout, Rene Tavernier, Elia Zureik and Omar Zuaiter, 1982-2005 (File 79) - Box 8 (MS 10291)

Correspondence with Kegan Paul, 1981-1990 (File 80) - Box 8 (MS 10291)

Colour photographs of book cover for Per un Palestinese/For a Palestinian (File 81) - Box 8 (MS 10291)

Mock up of book An Arab Diary :Paintings by Janet Venn-Brown (File 82) - Box 8 (MS 10291)

Series. General correspondence

Mainly carbon copies of letters by Janet Venn Brown and original typed letters faxed to correspondents. Includes correspondence with family members Louise Cox, Felix, Ian, Jeff and Chris Venn-Brown and a family tree. Also correspondence concerning exhibition 'An Arab Diary' at Alia Galleries, Amman Jordan, including letters to Princess Wijdan Ali and biographical information; and the UQP book Australian artists in Italy. Other correspondents include Caroline Simpson; Lola Tuohy, Cardinal John Wright and the Harry Edwards Spiritual Healing Sanctuary; and gallerists Philip Bacon, Eva Breuer, Mavis Chapman, Stella Downer, Eddie Glastra, Marea Grosvenor, Robert Wardrop and Julie Webb.

Correspondence, 1964-1979 (File 83) - Box 9 (MS 10291)

Correspondence, 1980-1984 (File 84) - Box 9 (MS 10291)

Correspondence, 1985-1989 (File 85) - Box 9 (MS 10291)

Correspondence, 1990-1996 (File 86) - Box 9 (MS 10291)

Correspondence, 1997-1999 (File 87) - Box 9 (MS 10291)

Correspondence re exhibition in Jordan, 1984-1986 (File 88) - Box 9 (MS 10291)

Correspondence, 2000-2004 (File 89) - Box 10 (MS 10291)

Correspondence, 2005-2008 (File 90) - Box 10 (MS 10291)

Correspondence, 2009-2010 (File 91) - Box 10 (MS 10291)

Correspondence, 2011 (File 92) - Box 10 (MS 10291)

Correspondence, 2012-2015 (File 93) - Box 10 (MS 10291)

Greeting cards, 1999-2016 (File 94) - Box 11 (MS 10291)

Photocopies of letters made by Peter Manning's biography -flagged with biographer Peter Manning's notes (File 95) - Box 11 (MS 10291)

Postcards from Wael and Sinan Zuaiter; condolence telegrams following murder of Wael Zuaiter; letters from Myson and Naila Zuaiter, 1976-1980 (File 96) - Box 11 (MS 10291)

Family correspondence from Ian, Pat and Felix Venn-Brown, Helen, Philip and Louise Cox; letters from Janet Venn- Brown to Mrs C F Venn-Brown and Helen Cox, 1976-1993 (File 97) - Box 11 (MS 10291)

Series. Research materials relating to Palestine

Circulars and publications from organisations including the International Committee for Palestinian Human Rights; Amnesty International; Centro D'Informazione per la Difesa Popolazioni Civili Dei Prigionieri, Deportati e Scomparsi Palestinesi e Libanesi;Right to Enter campaign, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine, Friends of Hebron; Trotskyist Platform, Union Aid Abroad; typescript by Marisa Musu "The children of Tal Al Zaatar"

Original and photocopies from The Australian, 1969 (File 98) - Box 12 (MS 10291)

Fondation BASO Livia Rockach and articles by journalist Livia Rokach and clippings on her death (File 99) - Box 12 (MS 10291)

Research materials on Palestine, 2003-2014 (File 100) - Box 12 (MS 10291)

Palestine and miscellaneous articles (File 101) - Box 12 (MS 10291)

Palestine and miscellaneous articles (File 102) - Box 12 (MS 10291)

Palestine and miscellaneous articles (File 103) - Box 13 (MS 10291)

Series. Research material relating to Wael Zuaiter

Mainly contemporary newspaper clippings reporting the killing of Zuaiter (original clippings and photocopies); street posters; tributes; pamphlets including Testimonianza per Wael Zwaiter; Per Wael Zuaiter; tributes; letter from Alberto Moravia to Jean Paul Sartre;

Research Files, 1973-2006 (File 104) - Box 13 (MS 10291)

Research Files, 1973-2006 (File 105) - Box 13 (MS 10291)

Research Files, 1980-2010 (File 106) - Box 13 (MS 10291)

Research material for biography of Wael Zuaiter, 1973-2006 (File 107) - Box 14 (MS 10291)

Research material for biography of Wael Zuaiter, 1973-2006 (File 108) - Box 14 (MS 10291)

Research Files, 2004-2008 (File 109) - Box 14 (MS 10291)

Research Files (File 110) - Box 14 (MS 10291)

Research Files (File 111) - Box 14 (MS 10291)

Research Files (File 112) - Box 14 (MS 10291)

Research Files (File 113) - Box 15 (MS 10291)

Research Files (File 114) - Box 15 (MS 10291)

Research Files (File 115) - Box 15 (MS 10291)

Research Files (File 116) - Box 15 (MS 10291)

Series. Miscellaneous papers

Includes magazine articles, reviews, invitations and art exhibition; copies of printed material, obituaries for Justin O'Brien; news clippings on Jeffrey Smart; the Luncheon Club of Rome; information about driver's license, social security and Australian passports.

Miscellaneous papers (File 117) - Box 16 (MS 10291)

Miscellaneous papers (File 118) - Box 16 (MS 10291)

Miscellaneous papers (File 119) - Box 16 (MS 10291)

Miscellaneous papers (File 120) - Box 16 (MS 10291)

Pluto Press new chapter (File 127) - Box 17 (MS 10291)

New edition of For a Palestinian (File 128) - Box 17 (MS 10291)

Photocopy of North Shore Times article about Janet Venn-Brown convincing Ure-Smith to publish They're a weird mob by Nino Culotta (alias for John O'Grady); Copy of They're a weird mob, 2012 Text Publishing edition (File 129) - Box 17 (MS 10291)

Peter Manning research material for 2016 biography of Janet Venn-Brown - Janet Venn-Brown: a life in art (File 130) - Box 17 (MS 10291)

Poster for Janet Venn-Brown exhibition at Ala Art Gallery in Amman, 1995 (File 131) - Box 17 (MS 10291)

Original pen and gouache sketch of Rome by Janet Venn-Brown (File 132) - Box 17 (MS 10291)

Series. Art exhibitions and biographical material

References (File 121) - Box 18 (MS 10291)

Family history material collected by Ian Venn-Brown (File 122) - Box 18 (MS 10291)

Sydney, 2009-2016 (File 123) - Box 18 (MS 10291)

Exhibition publicity, reviews, 1965-2010 (File 124) - Box 18 (MS 10291)

Personal /artist's statements, CVs (File 125) - Box 18 (MS 10291)

Exhibition catalogues and fliers, 1984-2011 (File 126) - Box 18 (MS 10291)

Series. Oversized material

Poster (in Italian) for a demonstration to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Wael Zwaiter by Comitato Italiano di Solidarieta con il Popolo Palestinese (File) - Map-Folio 19 (MS 10291)

Poster (in Italian) for a public debate about the publication of the book Per un Palestinese, Janet Venn-Brown as speaker, Bologna (File) - Map-Folio 20 (MS 10291)

Original watercolour painting of Mutrah by Janet Venn-Brown, 1982 (File 21) - Folio-Box Shared, Piece 21

Class MS Acc23.046. Consignment received 2023, 1954 - 2022

3.06 metres,

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.

Negatives (x617 frames), February 1989 (File 1) - Box 1 (MS Acc23.046)

Images of Janet Venn-Brown's artworks and exhibitions.

35mm black and white very early pictures (x11), n.d. (Items 1-11) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Miscellaneous in Italy (x2), n.d. (Items 12-14) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Early paintings (Italian) (x47), n.d. (Items 15-62) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Portrait of Janet at Bagdad Exhibition (x1), n.d. (Items 63) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Terrace under snow (x7), n.d. (Items 64-71) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Terrace garden and view (x16), n.d. (Items 72-88) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Syria and Petra (x50), n.d. (Items 89-139) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Lunch (x4), n.d. (Items 140-144) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

The flat: early days (x32), n.d. (Items 145-177) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Some images with Janet's sister.

Our terrace and 1988 exhibition (x19 ), 1988 (Items 178-197) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Iraq (x72), n.d. (Items 198-270) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Tunis, including interiors (x32), n.d. (Items 271-303) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Black and white 1988 Rome Mostra (x20 ), 1988 (Items 304-324) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Australia including Drummoyne (x5), n.d. (Items 325-330) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Dinner on terrace (x8), 1995 (Items 331-339) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Marisa's [CDG] Group.

Peter's in white light and paintings (x5), March 1991 (Items 340-365) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Paintings sent to [Luduula].

Paintings to show to [Luduula] (x23), n.d. (Items 366-389) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Doors in Rome (x15), February 1989 (Items 390-405) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Interior at Marinella's.

1988 exhibition (x 13), 1988 (Items 406-419) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Paintings of 1988 exhibition (x31), 1988 (Items 420-451) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Taken in gallery, all framed.

Palestine (x47), 1985 (Items 452- 499) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Tunis, including interiors (x13), 1990 (Items 500-513) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Tunis (x59), 1990 (Items 514-573) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Tunis with [Mawal] (x27), n.d. (Items 574-601) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Helen in Italy (x7), n.d. (Items 602-609) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Jerusalem/[Nablus] (x7), 1989 (Items 610-617) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Nysoon.

Photographs of paintings, n.d. (File 2) - Box 1 (MS Acc23.046)

Janet's photographs of her paintings and apartment in Rome.

Colour photographs (x22), n.d. (Items 1-22) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Photographs of paintings, n.d. (File 3) - Box 1 (MS Acc23.046)

Colour photographs (x108), n.d. (Items 1-108) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Items 1-14 for Chapter 3, 15-43 for Chapter 5, 44-82 for Chapter 6, 83-97 for Chapter 7.

Colour digital print copies of paintings, 14 September 1993 (File 4) - Box 1 (MS Acc23.046)

Average size of originals is 24 x 34 centimetres, includes exhibition catalogue.

Album with photographs, 1976 - 1978 (File 5) - Box 1 (MS Acc23.046)

Labelled Janet Venn-Brown Via Alberico II, 11/212 00193 Roma.

Colour photographs (x14) and black and white (x1), 1976 - 1978 (Items 1-15) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 32

Photographs of paintings with some of Venn-Brown (mostly 7x8 inches); Originally mounted on card with stamp Foto Bellocchio V. del Mascherino, 25-00193 Roma.

Colour photographs (x6) and black and white (x6), 1976 - 1978 (Items 16-27) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 33

Photographs of paintings with some of Venn-Brown (mostly 7x8 inches); Originally mounted on card with stamp Foto Bellocchio V. del Mascherino, 25-00193 Roma.

Photocopies and original water colour, n.d. (File 6) - Box 1 (MS Acc23.046)

Water colour of pink flowers [hydrangeas] in vase on desk with notation 'old to Philippa.

Photographs of paintings, n.d. (File 7) - Box 1 (MS Acc23.046)

Photographs from albums; includes French newspaper clipping from album 3, printed cards from album 4 and loose items, portrait of Venn-Brown printed from album 6, List of sizes and prices from album 8, greeting cards from album 9, print cards and black and white photograph from album 11.

Album 1 with colour photographs (x68), n.d. (Items 1-68) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 33

Photographs mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 2 with colour photographs (x11), December 1963 (Items 69-79) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 33

Paintings on easel outdoors mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 3 with colour photographs (x12), 1993 (Items 80-101) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 33

Cetona Italy: photographs of exhibition mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 4 with colour photographs (x33), c. 1963 (Items 102-135) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 34

Labelled 'handbag size' mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 5 with colour photographs (x4), c. 1998 (Items 136-140) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 34

Mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 6 with colour photographs (x8), n.d. (Items 141-149) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 34

Labelled Janet Venn-Brown Via Alberico II, 11/212 00193 Roma ; photographs mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 7 with colour photographs (x39) (Items 150-189) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 34

Mostly 4x6 inches some with red dot stickers.

Album 8 with colour photographs (x34), n.d. (Items 190-224) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 34

Album labelled Speed color Roma with photographs mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 9 with colour photographs (x3), n.d. (Items 225-228) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 34

1 page from album.

Album 10 with colour photographs (x25), 1984 (Items 229-254) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 34

London exhibition. Photographs mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 11 with colour photographs (x18), 1988 (Items 255-273) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 34

La Margherita, Rome with photographs mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 12 with colour photographs (x23), n.d. (Items 274-297) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 35

Photographs mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 13 with colour photographs (x17), n.d. (Items 298-315) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 35

Labelled Windows on Rome, [Finestre su Roma] , photographs mostly 4x6 inches.

Album 14 with colour photographs (x27), 2003 (Items 316-343) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 35

Labelled Mostra, Janet Venn-Brown Via Alberico II, 11/212 00193 Roma. Windows on Rome, [Finestre su Roma].

Album 15 with colour photographs (x32), 1999 (Items 344-376) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 35

Photographs mostly 4x6 inches.

Folder with loose photographs and transparencies (x6), n.d. (Items 377-453) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 35

Photographs and transparencies mostly of paintings mostly 4x6 inches.

Listing of paintings and prices, 1986 - 2007 (File 8) - Box 1 (MS Acc23.046)

Guestbooks (x2), 1991 - 2014 (File 9) - Box 1 (MS Acc23.046)

Invitations to exhibitions, 2010 - 2013 (File 10) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Notebooks.

Notebooks (x4), c. 1982 - 1994 (File 11) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Notebooks labelled Centona; Mostra a Rome; Windows on Rome New subjects; Exhibition Roma 14-29 November 1994.

Photographs of Janet and friends (x33), n.d. (File 12) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Includes Justin O'Brien, Bruno Cagli; includes postcards.

Slip album photographs (x33), 2006 - 2011 (Items 1-33) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 36

Photographs of house and garden.

Photographs on DVD's, 2006 - 2014 (File 13) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Photographs of Janet in Rome and Sydney and DVD of interview for community television.

ARV Shine Winter, 2011 (Item NLA.DMA000369) - Digital-Carriers-Box DMA 6

1 item, Imation CD-RW 700mb, 80 mins, Compact disc/DVD

Photograph: Alex Craig, Janet Venn-Brown.

Janet in Rome, 2006 (Item NLA.DMA000370) - Digital-Carriers-Box DMA 6

1 item, Benq CD Recordable 700mb, Compact disc/DVD

Photographs at home.

Glebe Village July, 2009 (Item NLA.DMA000371) - Digital-Carriers-Box DMA 6

1 item, Photo Express Photo Cd, Compact disc/DVD

Daniel Tap Gallery, n.d. (Item NLA.DMA000372) - Digital-Carriers-Box DMA 6

1 item, Sony Recordable DVD-R 120min/4.7gb, Compact disc/DVD

Television Saturday 19 November 9:30pm.

Photographs of Janet and friends - loose (x37), n.d. (File 14) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Includes photocopies of photographs.

Eclectic collection of photographs (x23), n.d. (Items 1-23) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 36

Photographs: polaroid (x7), colour (x15) and black and white (x1) in situ.

Janet's friend (x3), n.d. (Items 24-26) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 36

Colour photographs (x3) Justin O'Brien and others.

Janet's friend (x2), 1996 (Items 27-28) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 36

Bruno Cagli 4x6 inch (x1) and with Yasser Arafat 7x9 inch (x1).

Photographs of Janet (x69), n.d. (Items 29-98) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 36

Includes a transparency negative (x1), colour polaroids (x3), colour photographs (x48) and assorted sized black and white photographs.

Photographs loose and from slip album, n.d. (File 15) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

37 colour photographs (x37) mostly 4x6 inches.

Rome under snow (x14), n.d. (Items 1-14) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 36

Saint John's Village, Glebe (x11), n.d. (Items 15-26) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 36

Bali (x11), 1996 (Items 27-37) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 36

Photographs from album labelled JVB 3, n.d. (File 16) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Colour photographs with friends in Rome, Jerusalem and Glebe; includes postcard and printed photographs.

Colour photographs (99) one black and white photograph, n.d. (Items 1-100) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 37

Photocopied article from Text Classics., n.d. (File 17) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

They're a weird mob by Nino Culotta.

Bissietta art school, 1954 - 1964 (File 18) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Official documents, 1960s-2015 (File 19) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Includes travel document signed by Robert Menzies, passport and copies of birth certificate.

Signed print copy of Bisietta's Prancing horses, n.d. (File 20) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Abstract paintings on greeting cards, 1960s (File 21) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Funeral booklets, 1992 - 2013 (File 22) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Natalia Binzburg and Sydney George Ure-Smith.

Funeral booklet in Italian with article, 2003 (File 23) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Title: Marisina rosa mai appassita, translated to pink Marisina never withered.

Photocopy of The Fisherman and his soul, n.d. (File 24) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Story by Oscar Wilde.

Postcard, n.d. (File 25) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Don't fly our doctors with money from the arms trade.

Booklet about Saint Benham the Matre near Mosul, 1954 (File 26) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

published by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Beirut.

Photographs of streets (x4), n.d. (Items 1-4) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 37

Colour photographs (x4) [Rome].

Metal plaque, 26 November 2008 (File 27) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

For our dear friend Janet Venn-Brown whom we will never forget with affection, the Palestinian communities in Italy our Arab and Italian friends .

Dinner invitation and printouts, 2017 (File 28) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Evening hosted by the Arab Council of Australia, to commemorate Venn-Brown; includes print out of Wael Zuaiter and of self portrait.

Trevi by James Duffield Harding, n.d. (File 29) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Copy on page.

Family history, c. 2015 (File 30) - Box 2 (MS Acc23.046)

Account written by Venn-Brown.

Works about Venn-Brown, 2006 - 2016 (File 31) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Includes book and artwork catalogues.

In a different light, 1991 (File 32) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Australian artists working in Italy, Saint Lucia, Queensland.

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, November 2022 (File 33) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Article in Volume 18 number 3 November issue titled From Australia to Italy and Palestine, the Life of Janet Venn-Brown.

New South Wales Parliament House event, 2002 (File 34) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Celebrating contributions in work for human rights for the Palestinian people; includes a copy of the speech by Louise Cox.

Venn-Brown's 90th birthday exhibition, 14 November 2014 (File 35) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Invitation to event and speech from niece Louise Cox.

Letter from Ambassador Izzat Abdulhadi, 30 October 2014 (File 36) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Thanks and birthday wishes.

Radio National recording and transcript, 2015 - 2022 (File 37) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Wael Zuaiter and Janet Venn-Brown with Jesse Cox Promotional papers for hybrid theatre work Wael Zuaiter: Unknownpresented by Next Wave.

CD recording Wael Zuaiter and Janet Venn-Brown, 2015 (Item NLA.DMA000373) - Digital-Carriers-Box DMA 6

1 item, Tevion CD-R80 CD recordable 700mb, 80 mins, Compact disc/DVD

Radiotonic recording with Jesse Cox on Radio National.

The Electric intifada, 2016 (File 38) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Printouts of website article Murdered for being Palestinian: Wael Zuaiter remembered 40 years on.

The Electric intifada: file copy, 2016 (File 39) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Printouts of website article Murdered for being Palestinian: Wael Zuaiter remembered 40 years on with Janet's notation.

Reprint by George Tomeh, 1981 (File 40) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Interdependence: a view from the third world', with author's inscription.

Excerpt of letter to sister, Helen, 15 February 1981 (File 41) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Newspaper clipping, February 2017 (File 42) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

The Art newspaper: News Middle East: saving historic Arab village of Lifta.

DVD Breaking the silence, n.d. (File 43) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Includes Italian newspapers clipping.

DVD Breaking the silence, 2005 (Item NLA.DMA000386) - Digital-Carriers-Box DMA 6

1 item, DVD video Israel 38 minutes., Compact disc/DVD

Israeli soldiers talk about Hebron, Israel.

Disc unlabelled, n.d. (Item NLA.DMA000387) - Digital-Carriers-Box DMA 6

1 item, Compact disc/DVD

Newspaper clipping, 17 December 1980 (File 44) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

In Arabian language.

Transcript of court judgement, n.d. (File 45) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

In Italian with English translation.

Correspondence with newspapers, 1969 (File 46) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian.

Arab Film Festival Australia, n.d. (File 47) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Foldout brochure.

Women in black, 2016 (File 48) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Printed emails with images of protest.

Wael Zuaiter documentary, 2015 (File 49) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Printed emails with some papers in Italian.

Typed document 3 pages in Italian, n.d. (File 50) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Luigi Alfano.

Wael Zuaiter typescript, n.d. (File 51) - Box 3 (MS Acc23.046)

Chapters edited, some for Pluto Press; includes speech at launch of Janet Venn-Brown: A life in art.

Sketch book of Palestine, n.d. (File 52) - Box 4 (MS Acc23.046)

Annotated on back The sword of Gedeon from Vengeance by James.

Envelope labelled Oman 1982, 1982 (File 53) - Box 4 (MS Acc23.046)

Postcards and photographs.

Colour photographs (x62), n.d. (Items 1-62) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 37

Photograph albums and transparencies, n.d. (File 54) - Box 4 (MS Acc23.046)

Paintings by Janet Venn-Brown album contains listing of exchange rates at 10 April 1991; postcard of Yemen.

New York photographs (x11), n.d. (Items 1-11) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

Iraq 1978 photographs (x39), 1978 (Items 12-50) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

Kuwait photographs (x22), n.d. (Items 51-73) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

unlabelled album (x9), 1985 (Items 74-82) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

One photograph labelled Jerusalem 1985.

Syria photographs (x26), n.d. (Items 83-108) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

Nablus and Jerusalem photographs (x10), n.d. (Items 109-118) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

unlabelled album (x27), n.d. (Items 119-145) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

Paintings by Janet Venn-Brown album (x12), n.d. (Items 146-157) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

Album labelled with Glebe address and some photo's are mounted on card.

Colour transparencies (x8), n.d. (Items 158-165) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

Jordan and West Bank paintings.

Miscellaneous loose photographs (x72), n.d. (Items 166-237) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

Transparency slides (x17), n.d. (Items 238-254) - Folder MS Coldstore folder 38

London exhibition.

Work for catalogue, n.d. (File 55) - Box 4 (MS Acc23.046)

Includes captions for Middle East, notes for sketches in Arabia and biographical information.

Magazines with articles, n.d. (File 56) - Box 4 (MS Acc23.046)

Relating to Venn-Brown's work.

New edition proposal of For a Palestinian, n.d. (File 57) - Box 4 (MS Acc23.046)

Research and proposal of new book edited by Venn-Brown and Peter Manning.

Munich research for new edition, 2005 - 2015 (File 58) - Box 4 (MS Acc23.046)

Photocopies of articles.

Palestinian assassination research for new edition, n.d. (File 59) - Box 4 (MS Acc23.046)

Mostly print copies of articles from various internet sites.

Proof of Per Un Palestinese, n.d. (File 60) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

Incomplete, with Venn-Brown's annotations for new edition.

Published copy of Per Un Palestinese, 1979 (File 61) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

With dedication to Venn-Brown from N. Hammad.

Laminated cover of English version, n.d. (File 62) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

For A Palestinian: a memorial to Wael Zuaiter.

Exhibition catalogues, 1970 - 2017 (File 63) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

Includes photocopies of biographical information.

Invitation from Caroline Simpson, 1999 - 2015 (File 64) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

Photo copy of letter requesting painting of interiors of heritage listed ClydeBank.

Photocopies of correspondence, c. 2015 (File 65) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

Relates to galleries with Venn-Brown's work and includes Peter Manning email.

Items from folder labelled catalogues etc, n.d. (File 66) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

Exhibition catalogues, n.d. (File 67) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

Address and telephone notebooks, n.d. (Item 68) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

Red ring binder.

Address and telephone notebooks, n.d. (Item 69) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

Navy A5 notebook.

Address and telephone notebooks, n.d. (Item 70) - Box 5 (MS Acc23.046)

Fragile black notebook.

Address and telephone notebooks, n.d. (Item 71) - Box 6 (MS Acc23.046)

Venezia.

Address and telephone notebooks, n.d. (Item 72) - Box 6 (MS Acc23.046)

Light brown.

Address and telephone notebooks, n.d. (Item 73) - Box 6 (MS Acc23.046)

Green.

Address and telephone notebooks, n.d. (Item 74) - Box 6 (MS Acc23.046)

Red.

Address and telephone notebooks, n.d. (Item 75) - Box 6 (MS Acc23.046)

Name card holder .

Address and telephone notebooks, n.d. (Item 76) - Box 6 (MS Acc23.046)

Personal and travel diaries, 1972 - 1994 (File 77) - Box 6 (MS Acc23.046)

Small diaries including from the time when Wael was assassinated.

Personal and travel diaries, 1981 - 1999 (File 78) - Box 6 (MS Acc23.046)

Diaries including time in Syria, Jerusalem, Australia.

Personal and travel diaries, 2000 - 2007 (File 79) - Box 7 (MS Acc23.046)

Diaries including Australia, New York, Rome.