Ruth Hollick and cat people

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Young girl holding cat]; ca. 1910-1930. Glass lantern slide | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Lois White, seated, holding a cat]; ca. 1910-1930. Glass lantern slide | src SLV

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss Sheila Sutherland, with cat [1915]. Glass negative | src SLV

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss Gelfren (young woman with cat) (n.d.) | src NGA

Nudes by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss M. Whitehead, ca. 1910 – ca. 1930. Glass negative | src SLV
Whole-length, nude, bending over to touch a shell on the ground (description on State Library of Victoria)

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss Wynn Jones, ca. 1910 – ca. 1930. Glass negative | src SLV ~ State library of Victoria

Girl with Chinese paper lamp

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Young girl holding a Chinese paper lantern, wearing a hat] (1910-1930) [detail]

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ [Young girl holding a Chinese paper lantern, wearing a hat] 1910-1930. Glass lantern slide | src SLV

Dancers (1914) by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick ~** [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Four girls dancing, wearing Grecian costume) | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

**Ruth Hollick ~** [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Four girls weeping, wearing Grecian costumes) Glass negative | src SLV

**Ruth Hollick ~** [Miss Sugden]; 1914. (Three girls, wearing Grecian costume, with pan pipes) | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

Thought by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Thought, 1921 | src National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Image ID: De102079

Thought is a portrait of the artist’s niece in a distinctly Australian costume adorned with appliqued gum leaves and a gum nut belt. The sitter is pictured in a meditative pose and the evocative title of the photograph encourages an allegorical interpretation of the work. The photograph is an exhibition-size print in its original frame. Hollick entered ‘Thought’ in the Colonial Exhibition in London in 1921 and was awarded a bronze medal. src NGV

Ruth Hollick (1883-1977) ~ Thought, 1921 | src NGV (detail)

The exhibition Photography: Real and Imagined (2023-2024) examines two perspectives on photography; photography grounded in the real world, as a record, a document, a reflection of the world around us; and photography as the product of imagination, storytelling and illusion. On occasion, photography operates in both realms of the real and the imagined.

Highlighting major photographic works from the NGV Collection, including recent acquisitions on display for the very first time, Photography: Real and Imagined examines the complex, engaging and sometimes contradictory nature, of all things photographic. The NGV’s largest survey of the photography collection, the exhibition includes more than 300 works by Australian and international photographers and artists working with photo-media from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. / The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

1920s fashion by Ruth Hollick

**Ruth Hollick** (1883-1977) ~ Miss Pearce. Fashion for ‘The Home’, March 1921. Glass negative | src SLV · State Library of Victoria

The image shows a woman, in whole-length, standing at foot of staircase, wearing evening clothes including tiara; a big cat skin at her feet. The Home magazine; Ball & Welsh [Fashion illustration for Ball and Welsh, published in The Home magazine]. Printed from original glass negative | src SLV