Purchased with funds provided by Tim Bednall 2021
Purchased 2013
Charles Perkins AO (1936–2000) was an Indigenous rights campaigner and bureaucrat.
6 portraits in the collection
Purchased 1999
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of HOTA (Home of the Arts), Gold Coast 2019 with the encouragement of Patrick Corrigan AM
Gift of the artist 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Adam Perkins, an Arrernte and Kalkadoon man, is the son of Indigenous rights campaigner and bureaucrat Charles Perkins AO.
1 portrait in the collection
Eileen Perkins is a descendant of one of Adelaide's prominent German Lutheran families.
1 portrait in the collection
Hetti Perkins (b. 1965), Arrernte and Kalkadoon curator, cultural adviser, writer and activist, began her career at the Sydney gallery of Aboriginal Arts Australia before joining the Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative as a curator.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Sydney Airports Corporation 2001
Sarah Hill introduces the portrait busts of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Charles Ulm by Enid Fleming.
Charles Ulm (1898-1934) began work as a clerk in a stockbroking office after he left school, but enlisted under a false identity in the 1st Battalion of the AIF just before his 16th birthday.
2 portraits in the collection
Charles Teo AM (b. 1957) is a neurosurgeon. Born in Sydney, where he attended Scots College and graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of New South Wales, he worked for some years at the Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, Texas and was Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas.
1 portrait in the collection
Jack Charles (b. 1943), Boon Wurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung Elder, activist, actor, musician and artist, was born at the Cummeragunja Mission on the Murray River and taken from his mother when he was four months old.
1 portrait in the collection
