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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.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Graham Kennedy and the Seekers in Melbourne

Graham Kennedy AO

Biography

Graham Kennedy AO (1934-2005), entertainer, began his career in Melbourne radio in 1949.

2 portraits in the collection

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Lorrie Graham

Biography

Lorrie Graham (b. 1954), photojournalist, was given her first camera, a Kodak plastic brownie, at the age of eight.

20 portraits in the collection

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Rhys Graham

Biography

Filmmaker and writer Rhys Graham has worked across a number of moving image forms.

1 portrait in the collection

Lorian Graham

Lorian Graham

Biography

The cyclist Lorian Graham (b. 1977) trained at the AIS between 2002 and 2005, and became Australia's National Road Cycling Champion in January 2005.

2 portraits in the collection

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Graham Thorley

Biography

Graham Thorley (1921–1990) entered the Archibald Prize 23 times between 1940 and 1976, and in 1980 was one of the first Australian artists to visit Antarctica, where he painted a series of landscapes.

2 portraits in the collection

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Graham Sutherland

Biography

Graham Sutherland OM (1903–1980) was an English artist, best known as the painter of the portrait of Sir Winston Churchill aged 80, subsequently destroyed by the sitter's wife, Clementine.

1 portrait in the collection

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Dr Anne Sanders

Biography

Dr Anne Sanders worked as the curatorial researcher at NPG begining in 2010.

Blow Back

Anne Zahalka

Biography

Photo media artist Anne Zahalka was born in Sydney in 1957, following her parent’s migration to post-war Australia.

19 portraits in the collection

Anne Boyd

Anne Boyd AM

Biography

Anne Boyd AM (b. 1946), composer and teacher, was born in Sydney and studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe at the University of Sydney before earning a PhD at the University of York.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait of Anne Summers

Anne Summers AO

Biography

Anne Summers AO (b. 1945), writer and feminist, became involved in women's rights while studying politics at the University of Adelaide in the 1960s.

6 portraits in the collection

Anne Levy

Anne Levy AO

Biography

Anne Levy AO (b. 1934), politician, was the first woman to preside in an Australian parliament.

1 portrait in the collection

Lady Barkly

Lady Anne Maria Barkly

Biography

Anne Maria Barkly (1838-1932) was the second wife of Sir Henry Barkly, Governor of Victoria from December 1856 to September 1863.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait of Tam Purves

Thomas Purves

Biography

Thomas Purves (1909-1969), known as Tam, founded the Australian Galleries in Smith Street, Collingwood, Melbourne with his wife Anne in 1956.

1 portrait in the collection

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Peter English

Biography

Peter English was an RAAF photographer from the early 1950s onward, taking air and ground photographs in Australia and Malaya.

1 portrait in the collection

Reverend William Bedford junior

William John Pickett Bedford

Biography

William John Pickett Bedford (1805–1869) was the eldest of three children of Anglican clergyman, William Bedford (1781–1852), and his wife, Eleanor, and came to Van Diemen’s Land with his family in 1823 following the appointment of his father to a chaplaincy in the colony.

1 portrait in the collection

Shirley Hazzard

Shirley Hazzard

Biography

Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) writer, spent her childhood in Sydney but left with her parents at the age of sixteen for South East Asia and New Zealand.

1 portrait in the collection

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