Ep. 65 Marilyn Darling AC

Marilyn Darling AC, is best known as an Australian philanthropist and patron of the arts. With her husband, Gordon Darling, she instigated and has provided ongoing funding to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, ACT. She instigated it! We didn’t have one before that! 

She was one of the very few women who studied science at the University of Queensland in the early 60’s before working in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Melbourne in the mid-1960s and undertaking postgraduate study in the Medical School of Monash University from 1973 to 1978. 

She worked successfully as a scientist, but it was her work for not for profit and charitable organisations over the ensuing 40+ years for which she became best known. So much so that she was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 "for service to Australian society through the arts". In the 2009 Australia Day Honours, she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for "service to the development, advancement and growth of visual arts in Australia and internationally.

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