The Hon. J.A. Wright was a delegate from Western Australia to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Stevie Wright (1947-2015), singer-songwriter, came to Australia from England at the age of nine.
Stevie Wright (1947-2015), singer songwriter, came to Australia from England at the age of nine.
2 portraits in the collection
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
Alexis Wright (b. 1950), author and activist, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria and the 2018 Stella Prize for her collective memoir Tracker.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Purchased with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AC 2021
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the artist 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Barbara Blackman 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gregory McBean writes about photographing recent ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, singer Stevie Wright.
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.
Meredith McKinney, subject of Charles Blackman's 'The Family', recounts memories from her childhood and the creation of the portrait.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Dr. Sarah Engledow explores the context surrounding Charles Blackman's portrait of Judith Wright, Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.
Gift of Joanna McNiven 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009
Poetic trio
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Barbara Blackman 2009
Gift of Bronwyn Wright 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Desire drives forbidden love
Purchased 2009
After successfully exploring the art scenes of London, France and Morocco, Hilda Rix Nicholas settled at Knockalong, a property near Delegate, on the Monaro plain in the 1920s.
Barbara Blackman AO (b. 1928), writer, poet and arts patron, was only fifteen when the ABC Weekly published one of her poems.
5 portraits in the collection
The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.
Kristin Headlam's portrait of Chris Wallace-Crabbe was acquired with the support of the Circle of Friends in 2014.
Emily Hilda Rix left Australia in March 1907, having trained for three years at the National Gallery School.
1 portrait in the collection
James Heath commenced an apprenticeship with an engraver named Joseph Collyer at the age of fourteen.
2 portraits in the collection
David Brooks, poet, literary critic and academic, studied in the early 1970s at the Australian National University, where he fell in with a group of Canberra writers including AD Hope, Rosemary Dobson, David Campbell and Judith Wright and co-founded Open Door Press with Alan Gould.
1 portrait in the collection
Leeanne Crisp was born in Adelaide, where she attended the SA School of Art and gained an advanced diploma from the Western Teacher's College in 1972.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
Emeritus Professor Derek Denton AC (b. 1924), was cited by the US National Academy of Sciences in 1995 as ‘the world’s leading authority on the regulation of salt and water metabolism and relevant endocrine control mechanisms’.
3 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with the assistance of funds provided by Janet Whiting AM, Philip Lukies and Antonia Syme 2016
Ross Edwards (b. 1943), composer, became determined upon a life of composition as a child.
1 portrait in the collection
Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Michael Wardell samples the fare in the University of Queensland National Self-portrait Prize.
Aviation carried women’s roles in society to greater heights – fashion followed suit.
April Thompson explores an exhibition of Ingvar Kenne’s global portrait project.
The Portrait Gallery's paintings of two poets, Les Murray and Peter Porter, demonstrate two very different artists' responses to the challenge of representing more than usually sensitive and imaginative men.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
