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Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove, Richard Crampton
blood/memory: Brenda & Christopher I (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra; Mara/Ngarrindjeri/Ritharrngu; Anglo-Australian/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish) 2021, 2022 (printed 2023)
Portrait, original wet plate collodion process tintype, digital scan to Ultrachrome pigment on paper
Purchased 2023
Michael Riley
Joe and Brenda, 1990 (printed 2013)
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2013
Dora Toovey
Mr and Mrs Horace Keats in the "Christopher Brennan Cycle", 1945
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Anne and Brennan Keats 2009
Annie May Moore
Christopher Brennan, 1927
Portrait, carbon print on paper
Purchased 2014
Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove, Richard Crampton
Men of High Degree: Kev Carmody (Bundjalung/Lama Lama Peoples), 2023
Portrait, original wet plate collodion process tintype, digital scan to Ultrachrome pigment on paper
Purchased 2023
Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove, Richard Crampton
Matilda (Ngambri), 2020
Portrait, dye sublimation print on aluminium from tintype on paper
Purchased with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2020
Brenda L Croft
Russell Page in Venice, 1997
Portrait, triptych of type C photographs on paper
Purchased 2002
Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove
Men of High Degree: Jim Everett – puralia meenamatta (clan plangermairreenner, Ben Lomond people, Cape Portland nation, north-east Tasmania), 2023
Portrait, original wet plate collodion process tintype, pigment photographic print on paper
Gift of the artist 2025. Donated through the Australian Cultural Gifts Program by Brenda L Croft in memory of Trugernanner (Truganini) and Tarenorerer (Walyer).
Christopher Morris
Bernard Fanning, 2003
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
Joseph Croft
Biography
Joseph Croft (c. 1926–1996), Aboriginal activist, was a Gurindji/Mudpurra man from the Northern Territory and member of the Stolen Generations.
1 portrait in the collection
Brenda L Croft
Biography
Artist, curator, lecturer and writer, Brenda L. Croft (born 1964) is from the Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples from the Victoria River region in the Northern Territory, and also has Anglo-Australian/German/Irish/Chinese/Scottish heritage.
6 portraits in the collection
Brenda L Croft and Dr Matilda House
In Conversation
General content
Brenda L Croft (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples) talks with Ngambri/Ngunnawal/Wiradjuri elder, Dr Matilda House, about her photographic portrait.
Australian Tapestry Workshop, Merrill Dumbrell, Christopher Pyett, Normana Wight
Portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 2000
Portrait, warp: cotton No.12 seinetwine; weft: wool and cotton
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2000
Dr Christopher Chapman
Biography
After almost 12 years, Dr Christopher Chapman departed as Senior Curator in 2019.
Christopher Morris
Biography
Christopher Morris studied photography at Griffith University in Brisbane in the mid 1990s, during which he photographed many of the leading names in contemporary music including U2, Oasis, Pearl Jam, The Sex Pistols and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
1 portrait in the collection
Christopher Brennan
Biography
Christopher Brennan (1870–1932), poet, was born to Irish parents in Sydney.
2 portraits in the collection