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Professor Peter Karmel, 1996
Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Dianne Fogwell
Portrait, etching
Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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Prue Hazelgrove
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Prue Acton, 2012
David Roberts
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Men of High Degree: Jim Everett – puralia meenamatta (clan plangermairreenner, Ben Lomond people, Cape Portland nation, north-east Tasmania)
Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove (Wet plate collodion process technical assistant)
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blood/memory: Brenda & Christopher I (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra; Mara/Ngarrindjeri/Ritharrngu; Anglo-Australian/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish) 2021
Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove (Photographic Assistant)
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Men of High Degree: Kev Carmody (Bundjalung/Lama Lama Peoples), 2023
Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove, Richard Crampton
Portrait, original wet plate collodion process tintype, digital scan to Ultrachrome pigment on paper
Purchased 2023
Matilda (Ngambri), 2020
Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove, Richard Crampton
Portrait, inkjet print (from original tintype, wet plate collodion process) on paper
Purchased with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2020
blood/memory: Brenda & Christopher I (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra; Mara/Ngarrindjeri/Ritharrngu; Anglo-Australian/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish) 2021, 2022 (printed 2023)
Brenda L Croft, Prue Hazelgrove, Richard Crampton
Portrait, original wet plate collodion process tintype, digital scan to Ultrachrome pigment on paper
Purchased 2023
Self portrait as Sarah Wisse, Transported, 1996
Margaret Woodward
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Karmel family in memory of Lena and Peter Karmel 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Carla Zampatti
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 2019
David Roberts
Biography
Melbourne-based photographer David Roberts was born in Forest City, Iowa, and graduated from Iowa State University with an honours degree in philosophy.
4 portraits in the collection
National Youth Self Portrait Prize
NYSPP 2010
Previous exhibition, 2010
An annual event, the National Youth Self Portrait Prize seeks to encourage young people to embrace self portraiture and its expressive possibilities.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020
Previous exhibition, 2020
The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board
Doodles of the Diva
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2010
Three tiny sketches of Dame Nellie Melba in the NPG collection were created by the artist who was to go on to paint the most imposing representation of the singer: Rupert Bunny.