Stella Ramage on Father McHardy’s Bougainville portraiture.
Stella Bowen, painter and writer, grew up in Adelaide, where she studied with Margaret Preston.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Cornelius family 2019
A newly acquired work by Stella Bowen adds to the National Portrait Gallery's growing collection of important Australian self-portraits.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001
Finalist, MDPA 2013
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Roy de Maistre, the Australians in Hollywood exhibtion, Stella Bowen, portraits of scientists and more.
Charles Ulm (1898-1934) began work as a clerk in a stockbroking office after he left school, but enlisted under a false identity in the 1st Battalion of the AIF just before his 16th birthday.
2 portraits in the collection
In love and war
Drusilla Modjeska (b. 1946), writer, feminist and academic, was born in England and moved to Australia in 1971 after several years in Papua New Guinea.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2002
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
The Victorian Tapestry Workshop (renamed the Australian Tapestry Workshop in 2010) is the only centre of its kind in Australia, and one of very few in the world able to undertake hand-woven, large-scale tapestries for architectural locations.
Michele Aboud, commercial, fashion and portrait photographer, is a graduate of the Photographic College of London and UCLA.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Sydney Airports Corporation 2001
