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Neville and Jill Wran - as the Duke and Duchess of Sydney (with apologies to Piero della Francesca), 1983
Frank Hodgkinson
Portrait, oil on canvas (diptych)
Gift of Mrs Kate Hodgkinson 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Jill Hickson Wran AM
Biography
Jill Hickson Wran AM (b. 1948) graduated from the University of Sydney and then worked for Qantas.
1 portrait in the collection
Neville Wran AC QC
Biography
The Hon. Neville Wran AC QC (1926-2014) was the longest serving premier of New South Wales (1976 - 86), achieving major legal, social, environmental and cultural reforms.
1 portrait in the collection
Dr Jill Orr
Biography
Dr Jill Orr (born 1952) is a Melbourne-born contemporary artist, whose performance-based practice has continued to interrogate the environmental concerns since the 1970s.
1 portrait in the collection
Jill Neville
Biography
Jill Neville (1932–1997), writer and critic, grew up in Sydney and attended a Blue Mountains boarding school.
1 portrait in the collection
Jill Ker Conway AC
Biography
Jill Ker Conway AC (1934-2018), academic, writer and company director, was born in Hillston in western New South Wales and spent her early years on her father's sheep station, Coorain, which was so isolated that she was seven years old before she saw another girl.
1 portrait in the collection
Blue light hypnosis
Jill Velinos
Image
Portrait of Jill, 2021
Graeme Drendel
Portrait, oil on board
Gift of the artist 2023
Portrait of Jill Neville, 1967 (completed 1997)
Reginald Gray
Portrait, oil and egg tempera on canvas
Gift of the artist 2002
Jill Ker Conway, 1987
Sarah Belchetz-Swenson
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of an anonymous donor 2001
Who’s that lady?, 2014
by Ferne Millen
Image
Gubbo Thomas
Biography
Guboo Ted Thomas (1909–2002), land rights activist, was a tribal Elder of the Yuin nation and grew up on the Wallaga Lake Reserve near Narooma.
1 portrait in the collection
Tom Goldner
Vox pops
The portrait's of my mother, Catherine, and the photograph was taken in a family home that we had and my mother was relocating to Tasmania.
James McClelland, 1946
Nancy Borlase AM
Portrait, oil on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gillian Appleton (McClelland) 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Frank Lowy AC
Biography
Sir Frank Lowy AC (b. 1930) businessman, property developer and philanthropist, founded the Westfield group of shopping centres.
2 portraits in the collection
Headspace 1
Previous exhibition, 2000
Headspace showcases portrait art produced by secondary students from Year 7 to Year 12 in Government, Catholic and Independent schools in Canberra and its surrounding regions extending to Wollongong, Deniliquin, Leeton, Crookwell, Bombala, Narooma and Albury