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Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2022



Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2022

Robert Dodd, a leading painter of maritime and military subjects, lived and worked in Wapping, London.
2 portraits in the collection



Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.



Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2022



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011



Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2008

Joanna Gilmour recounts the story of ill-fated sea voyages in the early stages of the Antipodean colony.

Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.

Rebecca Ray reflects on Robert Fielding’s Mayatjara series, honouring songlines and intergenerational knowedge.



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Michael Desmond introduces some of the ideas behind the exhibition Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age.