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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

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Nick Enright

Nick Enright AM

Nick Enright (1950-2003), playwright and screenwriter, attended Sydney University and the New York University School of the Arts before establishing himself as a dramatist with plays such as Summer Rain and Mongrels.

2 portraits in the collection

Terry Snow and China

Terry Snow and China

Terry Snow and China

Terry Snow and China, 2017

Portrait, oil on canvas

Commissioned with funds provided by Dr Justin Garrick and Ms Dharini Ganesan Rasu, Mr Dino Nikias & Mrs Dimitra Nikias, Mr Jim Windeyer, Ms Claudia Hyles, Mrs Sotiria Liangis OAM and Mr John Liangis, Justice Mary Finn, Mr Bill Farmer AO and Mrs Elaine Farmer, Mr Tim Efkarpidis, Mr Bob Nattey and Mrs Charlotte Nattey, Ms Jennifer Bott AO, Mr Keith Bradley, Dr Sam Whittle and Mrs Heather Whittle 2017

Gillian Armstrong

Gillian Armstrong AM

Gillian Armstrong (b. 1950) studied theatre and film-making at Swinburne Technical College and was a star student at the newly-established Australian Film and Television School in the early 70s.

2 portraits in the collection

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Dean Beletich

Dean Beletich (b. 1968), artist and photographer, studied at Newcastle Art School, the National Art School Sydney and the University of Newcastle from 1987 to 1991.

1 portrait in the collection

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Lisa Tomasetti

Lisa Tomasetti (b. 1963) is a Sydney-based photographer and visual artist.

1 portrait in the collection

Lewis Morley

Lewis Morley

Lewis Morley

Lewis Morley, 2003

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003

Gillian Armstrong AM

Gillian Armstrong AM

Gillian Armstrong AM

Gillian Armstrong AM, 1973

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003

Bart Willoughby

Bart Willoughby

Bart Willoughby (b. 1960) is a Pitjantjantjara and Mirning singer/songwriter who is one of the Stolen Generations.

2 portraits in the collection

Francis Russell Nixon

Francis Russell Nixon

Francis Russell Nixon

Francis Russell Nixon, c. 1845-1855

an unknown artist after George Richmond

Portrait, copperplate engraving, heightened with China white on buff paper

Purchased 2009

Nick Enright

Nick Enright

Nick Enright

Nick Enright, c. 1976 (printed 2004)

Robert McFarlane

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003

Nude self portrait

Nude self portrait

Nude self portrait

Nude self portrait, 1977

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879), 1876

The Illustrated London News after Jesse Young

Portrait, wood engraving on paper

Purchased 2010

Rosie Batty

Nikki Toole

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 2017

Portrait of Alan Marshall

Portrait of Alan Marshall

Portrait of Alan Marshall

Portrait of Alan Marshall, 1955

Portrait, oil on cardboard

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson AO

Mel Gibson (b. 1956), actor, was born in New York state, the sixth of eleven children of a railroad brakeman and an Australian opera singer.

1 portrait in the collection

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)

Ernest Giles

Ernest Giles (1835-1897), explorer, came to Australia at the age of fifteen, settling in Adelaide.

1 portrait in the collection

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