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Daisy Bates in her office, 2024
Harriette Bryant
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint, PVC glue and inkjet print on found object
Purchased 2026
Children at Ooldea Station with Daisy Bates, 2025
Harriette Bryant
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint, PVC glue and inkjet print on found object
Purchased 2026
Woburn Sheepshearing, 1811
Thomas Morris, M N. Bates, Joseph C. Stadler after George Garrard
Portrait, aquatint with stipple and etching and engraving, hand coloured on chine colle on paper laid down on cotton stretched over wooden strainer
Purchased 2018
Yarnangu
David Darcy
Image
Alan Sandow
Biography
Alan Sandow (b. 1952), drummer, joined Clive Shakespeare in the initial Sherbet lineup in 1969, before Daryl Braithwaite joined the band.
3 portraits in the collection
Bruce Beresford, 1962 (printed 2006)
Jozef Vissel
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
Bruce Beresford
Biography
Bruce Beresford (b. 1940), director, made his first film while an undergraduate at the University of Sydney in the early 1960s.
2 portraits in the collection
Bruce Beresford on location, c. 1981 (printed 2004)
Robert McFarlane
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Jenny Howard
Biography
Jenny Howard née Daisy Blowes (1902-1996), stage performer, made her name in her native England as ‘the poor man’s Gracie Fields’, recording covers of Fields’s songs for a cut-price label and impersonating the star onstage.
1 portrait in the collection
Through blue eyes
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
Works by Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan bring the desert, the misty seashore and the hot Monaro plains to exhibition Open Air: Portraits in the landscape.
National Youth Self Portrait Prize
NYSPP 2009
Previous exhibition, 2009
An annual event, the National Youth Self Portrait Prize seeks to encourage young people to embrace self portraiture and its expressive possibilities.
Money for Myth
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2015
Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.
Anna Culliton
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Anna Culliton never had a colouring-in book when she was little. Her parents –Tony, a filmmaker, and Stephanie, a painter – wouldn’t let her have one. Instead, they insisted on her drawing her own pictures to colour-in.
Australians in Hollywood
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2003
The exhibition Australians in Hollywood celebrated the achievements of Australians in the highly competitive American film industry.
Rock star
Magazine article by Jennifer Coombes, 2018
Jennifer Coombes explores the lush images of Picnic at Hanging Rock, featuring Anne-Louise Lambert’s Miranda, the face of the film.
Queen of cartes
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2019
Joanna Gilmour discusses the role of the carte de visite in portraiture’s democratisation, and its harnessing by Victoria, the world’s first media monarch.