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Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham
Johnny Warren OAM MBE, 2008
Portrait, single channel moving image, colour, sound, 2 minutes, 50 seconds
Purchased 2011
Johnny Warren OAM MBE
Biography
Johnny Warren OAM MBE (1943-2004), footballer, football administrator and commentator, grew up in southern Sydney where he played his first games of soccer, as his game was then known, for the Botany Methodists.
1 portrait in the collection
an unknown artist
Master Johnny Day, Australian Champion Pedestrian, c. 1866
Portrait, albumen photograph carte de visite
Purchased 2014
Ivan Durrant
Johnny O'Keefe "A little bit louder now...", 1999
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint on board
Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 1999
an unknown artist
David Warren, c. 2004
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Commonwealth Department of Defence 2005
Lorrie Graham
Johnny O'Keefe, 1975 (printed 2011)
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Greg Weight
Guy Warren, 1991
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Andrew Sibley
Joy Warren, 1997
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Robin Sellick
Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, 2007
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Commissioned 2007
Patrick Dawson
Australian Aboriginal Cricketers, 1867
Portrait, albumen silver photograph on original lithograph title sheet
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009
Power suits
The fit within the frame
Exhibition
Celebrate the fashion icon in a playful display of more than 100 collection works and select loans. Meet significant Australians in their finest from Johnny O’Keefe, Sherbet and Nicole Kidman to influential judges, politicians, entrepreneurs and scientists.
David Warren
Rodney Hall, 2005
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
Johnny O'Keefe
Biography
Johnny O'Keefe (1935-1978) was Australia's first rock 'n' roll star. At a time when radio stations were reluctant to promote local talent, O'Keefe was the first Australian rock performer to have a chart hit with the 1958 song 'Wild One'.
2 portraits in the collection
Joy Warren
Biography
Joy Warren OAM (1922-2015), gallerist, was the owner-director of Canberra’s Solander Gallery from 1974.
1 portrait in the collection
Johnny Day
Biography
‘The Australian Wonder’, Johnny Day (1856–1885), was an undefeated world-champion juvenile walker.
1 portrait in the collection
David Warren
Biography
David Warren graduated from RMIT in 1964, after which he taught for some twenty years at the Prahran School of Art, RMIT and Ballarat CAE.
1 portrait in the collection