Background
June Mendoza was born in Melbourne, Australia. As a child she toured with her mother, working in small mime parts and crowd scenes for the opera, ballet, musicals and revue.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
June Mendoza
Edit ProfileCareer
Her parents,John Morton and Dot (née Mendoza), were both musicians, performers and composers in violin and piano respectively. During these tours she started sketching in her spare time. She realised that art was her calling at age 12 and commenced life classes at 14 and portraiture eventually became her forte.
They have 4 children.
Mendoza"s commissions have included portraits of royalty (such as Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Diana, Princess of Wales), prime ministers (Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Corazon Aquino, Goh Chok Tong, John Gorton) and other politicians, sports people, military officers and celebrities. She appeared as a "castaway" on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio programme Desert Island Discs on 8 September 1979, and in 1985 painted the presenter, Roy Plomley.
Portrait Painting in Oil With June Mendoza Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire RP Republic of Ireland (). Town House Films.
Achievements
-
She is an Officer of the Order of Australia(Association for the Study of Internal Fixation), Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), and a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (Republic of Ireland) and of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (RP). She is an Honorary Vice President of the Britain-Australia Society. She is a Patron of the Tait Memorial Trust. An Australian performing arts charity based in London.
-
Born
-
Nationality
Australian