Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Brenda Croft, artist, curator, lecturer and freelance writer, is from the Gurindji nation in the Northern Territory.
3 portraits in the collection
Brenda L Croft (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples) talks with Ngambri/Ngunnawal/Wiradjuri elder, Dr Matilda House, about her photographic portrait.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2020
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2002
Linda Burney, Brenda Croft and Darrell Sibosado share memories of Michael Riley and his photographic practice.
Joseph Croft (c.1926 – 1996) is pictured with Brenda L. Croft, his daughter.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Brenda Niall AO 2019
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Community, arts, activism
Influential Indigenous Australian artist Michael Riley (1960 - 2004) created these portrait photographs between 1984 and 1990 - they stand as an intricately connected group portrait of the vibrant urban-based Indigenous arts community in Sydney's inner-west at a formative moment.
Rachel Griffiths (b. 1968) studied education at Victoria College before working with the community theatre group Woolly Jumpers, Inc.
1 portrait in the collection
Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.
Ethel Turner (1870-1958), writer, came to Australia with her twice-widowed mother at the age of nine.
1 portrait in the collection
Biographies of participants in the Writing lives, revealing lives forum.
Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.
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