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Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall OAM

Rodney Hall OAM (b. 1935), writer, came to Australia in 1947 and settled in Brisbane.

2 portraits in the collection

Ed Sheeran, 2016 Colin Davidson

Ed Sheeran

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Robyn Davidson

Robyn Davidson (b. 1950), writer, attended a Brisbane boarding school before moving to Sydney, where she lived a loosely bohemian lifestyle.

2 portraits in the collection

Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall, 1960s

an unknown artist

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall, 2005

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

Professor H. Rodney Withers

Professor H. Rodney Withers

Professor H. Rodney Withers

Professor H. Rodney Withers, 2004

Jacqueline Mitelman

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004

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Robyn Davidson (near Uluru), 1979 (printed 2014)

Portrait, inkjet print (black and white) on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

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Robyn Davidson (Hamelin Pool, Indian Ocean, Western Australia), 1977 (printed 2014)

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased 2014

Mia Wasikowska as Robyn Davidson at Hamelin Pool, 2013 by Matt Nettheim

Hump days

Magazine article by Jessica Bolton, 2017

Jessica Bolton navigates the parallel tracks documenting Robyn Davidson’s astonishing journey.

Colin Davidson

In conversation with Colin Davidson

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Belfast-based artist, Colin Davidson talks about the fortuitous happenstances that led to him painting a range of famous faces (from Brad Pitt to the Queen, and everyone in between!)

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2014

Portrait Donors

Body Emulsion Detachment, 2016 by Lucas Davidson, video: 14 minutes

Body Emulsion Detachment, 2016

by Lucas Davidson

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Finalist, DPA 2016

Dame Mabel Brookes

Dame Mabel Brookes

Dame Mabel Brookes

Dame Mabel Brookes, c. 1955

Sir William Dargie CBE

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Rodney Davidson AO OBE 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Riverboat Rod & Ruby, 2022 James Bugg

Riverboat Rod & Ruby

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Donors

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Rick Smolan

Rick Smolan (b. 1949) began his career as a photographer for Time, Life and National Geographic.

2 portraits in the collection

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