Selected Portrait Commissions: 2005 – 2017
Corporal Daniel Keighran, 2017, Commissioned by the Australian War Memorial
Oil on linen
260 x 190 cm
Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs, 2014 Commissioned by the Jewish Museum of Australia
Oil on linen
120 x 90 cm
Professor Richard Larkins AO 2007, Vice Chancellor and President, Monash University, Commissioned by Monash Univeristy Collection
Oil on linen
175 x 137cm
Mrs Sylvia Walton AO, 2011, Commissioned by La Trobe University
Oil on linen
120 x 90 cm
Professor Andrew Coates Deputy Vice Chancellor University of Sydney, Commissioned by University of Sydney
Oil on linen
120 x 90 cm
Jeremy Ellis MA Chancellor of Monash University, 2014, Commissioned by Monash University
Oil on linen
175 x 137 cm
Former Premier Hon John Brumby, 2012, Commissioned by the Parliment of Victoria
Oil on linen
120 x 90 cm
Fay Marles, Chancellor of the University of Melbourne, 2005, Comissioned by the University of Melbourne
Oil on linen
122 x 90 cm
Cate Sayers, 2016
Oil on linen
190 x 150 cm
Juan Ford
1 - 31 May 2021
Juan Ford’s practice has consistently been engaged with opening up new possibilities for realism in painting. He has employed many strategies that argue around the theoretical ‘problems’ of realism in painting. Ford enjoys exploiting the limited shortcomings of the dull, officially sanctioned dialogue between painting and it’s would-be executioner, photography, in order to develop new potential for realism. While his work evolves and varies across time, it characteristically involves an examination of the human figure and its relationship to its environment.
Ford’s many portrait commissions include the Australian War Memorial, 2018, the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Now 2013/2014, Manifesta 9 European Biennale 2012, Premier John Brumby for Parliament of Victoria Parliament House, Sir Isaac Isaacs, first Governor General of Australia for the Melbourne Jewish Museum, Monash University, The University of Sydney and Trinity College Melbourne.