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Alana Landsberry
Maggie Tabberer, 2015
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of Alana Landsberry and Bauer Media Australia 2019
Maggie Tabberer AO
Biography
Maggie Tabberer AO (1936-2024), designer, writer, editor, publicist and television presenter, is one of Australia's best-known personalities.
1 portrait in the collection
Del Kathryn Barton
Maggie, 2023
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint and pigment liner on French linen
Commissioned with funds provided by Hayley Baillie and James Baillie 2023
The National Portrait Gallery Collection
Exhibition
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Behind the scenes
Del Kathryn Barton’s portrait of Maggie Beer
Magazine article, 2024
It was a riot of colour in the Gallery as we welcomed Del Kathryn Barton’s portrait of Maggie Beer AO into the collection.
Maggie Beer AO
Biography
Maggie Beer AO (b. 1945) is a cook, restaurateur, businesswoman and media personality.
1 portrait in the collection
Maggie Beer and Del Kathryn Barton
'I wanted the whole picture to be pulsating with energy'
Portrait story
Maggie Beer and Del Kathryn Barton on symbolism and beauty.
Michel Lawrence
Athol Shmith, 1985
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Rosemary Valadon
Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl, 1995
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2000
Rob Tuckwell
Lisa McCune, 2000 (printed 2012)
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
James Burnside
Therese Desmond, 1919-1920
Portrait, watercolour on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Madeleine Howell 2013
Timothy Noble
Charles Blondin, 1874
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Georgie Swift
Biography
Georgie Swift (1920-2008), journalist, publicist and chatelaine, was born Georgette Marie Hiro Matsui to a French-born mother and Japanese father in Sydney after the First World War.
1 portrait in the collection
Simon Griffiths
Biography
Simon Griffiths has been acclaimed in numerous publications as Australia's leading food and garden photographer.
1 portrait in the collection
Cheong Liew OAM
Biography
Cheong Liew - whom the US magazine Food and Wine recently named one of the 10 'hottest chefs alive' - learnt the basics of cooking in his native Malaysia, in the Kuala Lumpur kitchen of his grandmother.
1 portrait in the collection
Lisa McCune
Biography
Lisa McCune (b. 1971) actor, made her stage debut at fifteen in a production of The Wizard of Oz in Perth.
1 portrait in the collection