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Judith Durham AO
Biography
The Seekers formed in Melbourne in 1962 when jazz singer Judith Durham met Athol Guy, who was in a folk trio with Bruce Woodley and Keith Potger.
3 portraits in the collection
The Seekers reunite 50 years on, 2011
Helen Edwards
Portrait, synthetic polymer on linen
Gift of Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The Seekers, 1993
Rennie Ellis
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Graham Kennedy and the Seekers in Melbourne, c. 1968
Robert Whitaker
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
Judith Wright
Biography
Judith Wright (1915–2000), poet, conservationist and Aboriginal land rights campaigner, was born at Thalgaroch Station, near Armidale, NSW, into a pastoralist family whose origins go back to the first settlement in the Hunter Valley in the 1820s.
3 portraits in the collection
Judith O'Conal-Prinz
Biography
Judith O’Conal grew up in Sydney’s Rocks area and became interested in art as she repeatedly passed the plaque advertising the Julian Ashton School.
1 portrait in the collection
Judith Pungarta Inkamala
Biography
Judith Pungarta Inkamala (b. 1947), senior potter, is an Arrernte woman who was born in Hermannsburg, 130 km west of Alice Springs.
3 portraits in the collection
Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE
Biography
Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE (1897–1992) was an Adelaide-born stage and film actress well known for her role as the sinister Mrs Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Judith Anderson, 1962
Don Bachardy
Portrait, pen and ink and drybrush on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Judith Wright, 1988 (printed 2021)
Jacqueline Mitelman
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AC 2021
All in the Family
Magazine article by Barbara Blackman AO, 2003
In 2000, Barbara Blackman donated a portrait of her close friends - poet Judith Wright, her husband Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith - painted by Charles Blackman.
The family, c. 1955
Charles Blackman OBE
Portrait, oil on board
Gift of Barbara Blackman 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The Family
by Charles Blackman
Portrait story
Meredith McKinney, subject of Charles Blackman's 'The Family', recounts memories from her childhood and the creation of the portrait.
Judith Inkamala, 1999
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The Hon Lionel Murphy, 1978
Judith O'Conal-Prinz
Portrait, oil on board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Lionel Murphy Foundation 2012
Big bouquet of Blackmans
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2013
Dr. Sarah Engledow explores the context surrounding Charles Blackman's portrait of Judith Wright, Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith.