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Patrick Dawson is believed to have been trained as a surveyor and learnt photography while surveying in Victoria in the 1850s.
1 portrait in the collection
Herbert 'Smoky' Dawson MBE (1913-2008), entertainer, began his musical career in 1934 with a series of live broadcasts on Melbourne's Radio 3UZ - the first broadcasts of their kind in Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Janet Dawson (b. 1935), painter, printer, teacher and stage designer, is known for her contribution to abstract art in Australia.
10 portraits in the collection
Paula Dawson AM (b. 1954), artist and university lecturer, is an internationally recognised pioneer in the field of holography.
1 portrait in the collection
Patrick White (1912–1990), acknowledged as Australia’s pre-eminent novelist of the 20th century, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 for The Eye of the Storm, ‘for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature’.
7 portraits in the collection
Patrick Dodson (b. 1948), Indigenous advocate and senator for Western Australia, is a Yawaru man who was born in Broome but spent most of his childhood and early schooling in the Northern Territory.
1 portrait in the collection
Patrick Corrigan AM (b. 1932), businessman, art collector and arts patron, was born in Hanghow (Hankou) in China.
3 portraits in the collection
Patrick Ryan (d. 1990) and Tim Burstall set up Eltham Films in the early 1950s, when the local film industry was moribund.
1 portrait in the collection
Patrick McGorry (b.1952), psychiatrist and Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, gained his initial medical degree at the University of Sydney and worked in the United Kingdom and Newcastle, New South Wales, before completing his doctorate in medicine at Monash University in 1991.
1 portrait in the collection
Patrick Olodoodi Tjungurrayi (c. 1935-2017), Kukatja/Pintupi painter, was born at Yalangerri near Jupiter Well.
1 portrait in the collection
Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), orphaned at 11, was sent from his native Ireland to Rome, where a relative was rector of the Irish College.
2 portraits in the collection
Harold 'Hal' Hattam (1913-1994), doctor, artist and art collector, came to Australia from his native Scotland at the age of seven.
1 portrait in the collection
Horace Keats (1895-1945) came to Australia from his native England in 1915 as accompanist to vaudeville performer Nella Webb.
1 portrait in the collection
William Jackson Hooker (1785–1865), botanist, was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in which capacity he had significant influence on the study of Australian flora.
1 portrait in the collection
Textaqueen (b. 1975) studied fine arts at the University of Western Australia, Perth and interactive media at Metro Screen in Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Michael Boddy (1934–2014), writer and actor, was born in England and educated at Cambridge before arriving in Australia as a 'ten quid migrant' in 1960.
2 portraits in the collection