Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE (1915–2009), aviatrix, decided she wanted to be a pilot when, at age eight, she saw a plane make an emergency landing on a beach near her home.
2 portraits in the collection
Recorded 1977
Recorded 1977
Gift of Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE 2008. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2004
Joanna Gilmour explores the extraordinary life of Australian female aviator Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE
Inga Walton sheds light on a portraiture collection usually only seen by students and teachers at Melbourne University.
Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
A portrait story describing the amazing life of World War II resistance fighter, Nancy Wake.
Nancy Wake AC (1912–2011) was one of the most-decorated women of the Second World War.
1 portrait in the collection
Nancy Borlase AM (1914–2006), painter and writer, was born in New Zealand, and had to be dug out of the wreckage when an earthquake struck Napier in late 1931.
4 portraits in the collection
Nancy Menetrey (née Wilkinson) (1924-2024) was born in Sydney in 1924.
1 portrait in the collection