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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Luke Cornish (b. 1979) is a Sydney-based handmade stencil artist. A self-described former blue-collar worker from Canberra, under the name of E.L.K he began experimenting with stencil cutting and spray paint in his mid-twenties.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Gervaise Purcell was a commercial photographer specialising in fashion.
1 portrait in the collection
Rosie Batty (b. 1962), campaigner against family violence, became well known to the Australian public in early 2014, when her 11-year-old son Luke was murdered by his father as she stood waiting to take him home from cricket practice.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds provided by the Circle of Friends 2017
Finalist, DPA 2016
Beautiful punk love
Lady Florence Packer (1915-2012) was born in Paris to Edmond Porges, a major in the British Army, and his Russian wife Marie-Mathilde Brodsky.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lady Florence Packer 2004
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Rex Dupain 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Danina Anderson, daughter of Max Dupain 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Danina Anderson, daughter of Max Dupain 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Rex Dupain 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Hélène Kirsova (1910-1962), dancer, was born Ellen Wittrup Hansen in Copenhagen.
4 portraits in the collection
The 2015 Australian of the Year talks about grief and searching for recognition of, and action on, domestic violence.