Michael Riley, Telphia, 1990-2013, from the series Portraits by a Window, pigment UltraChrome ink on Platine fibre rag, 60 x 41cm (image size) 62 x 43.3cm (frame size), edition 15 + 1AP (+ exhibition set), TCG9982
collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

Telphia Joseph was a dancer with the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre and a former model with Lee Madden’s Promotions and Model Agency in Redfern that promoted Aboriginal models on catwalks internationaly. She now works
prominently in National Indigenous Health Advocacy programs.