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Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham

Johnny Warren OAM MBE (1943-2004), footballer, football administrator and commentator, grew up in southern Sydney where he played his first games of soccer, as his game was then known, for the Botany Methodists.

1 portrait in the collection

Johnny Warren OAM MBE, 2008

Portrait, single channel moving image, colour, sound, 2 minutes, 50 seconds

Purchased 2011

Australian Aboriginal Cricketers, 1867

Patrick Dawson

Portrait, albumen silver photograph on original lithograph title sheet

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

Johnny Day

‘The Australian Wonder’, Johnny Day (1856–1885), was an undefeated world-champion juvenile walker.

1 portrait in the collection

Johnny O'Keefe

Portrait, albumen photograph carte de visite

Johnny O'Keefe (1935-1978) was Australia's first rock 'n' roll star. At a time when radio stations were reluctant to promote local talent, O'Keefe was the first Australian rock performer to have a chart hit with the 1958 song 'Wild One'.

2 portraits in the collection

Master Johnny Day, Australian Champion Pedestrian, c. 1866

an unknown artist

Purchased 2014

Johnny O'Keefe "A little bit louder now...", 1999

Ivan Durrant

Portrait, synthetic polymer paint on board

Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 1999

Johnny O'Keefe, 1975 (printed 2011)

Lorrie Graham

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Joy Warren

Joy Warren OAM (1922-2015), gallerist, was the owner-director of Canberra’s Solander Gallery from 1974.

1 portrait in the collection

David Warren

David Warren graduated from RMIT in 1964, after which he taught for some twenty years at the Prahran School of Art, RMIT and Ballarat CAE.

1 portrait in the collection

Grapho, 2018

Warren Crossett

Portrait, pencil on paper

Joy Warren, 1997

Andrew Sibley

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Guy Warren, 1991

Greg Weight

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Commonwealth Department of Defence 2005

Rodney Hall, 2005

David Warren

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, 2007

Robin Sellick

Commissioned 2007

Johnny, 2006

by Sean Hobbs

Johnny, 2019

Nic Duncan

John Patten (Johnny Jarrett), 1958 Australian bantamweight boxing champion, 2017

by Tiffany Jane Garvie

Weight of the Mind's Periapt

Jane Allan

Previous exhibition, 2008

My Favourite Australian

My Favourite Australian is a project developed in collaboration with ABC TV and the people of Australia.

Aboriginal couple, Finniss Springs Mission, South Australia

Finniss Springs Community

Finniss Springs is located south of the Oodnadatta Track, 50km west of Marree on Arabana Country, South Australia.

1 portrait in the collection

Aboriginal couple, Finniss Springs Mission, South Australia, 1959 (printed 2000)

David Moore

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.

Frank Gardiner

Francis Gardiner (Christie) (1830-c. 1903), bushranger, came to New South Wales with his family as a child.

1 portrait in the collection

The Delltones, 1964 (printed 2019)

Ern McQuillan OAM

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

John Bulunbulun

Johnny Bulunbulun (1946-2010), Ganalbingu (Yolgnu) painter and printmaker, grew up on the island of Milingimbi and in Bulman in southern Arnhem Land.

1 portrait in the collection

Rachel Griffiths AM

Rachel Griffiths (b. 1968) studied education at Victoria College before working with the community theatre group Woolly Jumpers, Inc.

1 portrait in the collection

David Malangi Daymirringu

Previous exhibition, 2005

David Malangi Daymirringu (1927-1999), Manharrngu, bark painter, printer and designer, was born at Mulanga, near the mouth of the Glyde River, just before Christian missionaries arrived on the nearby island of Milingimbi.

1 portrait in the collection

Face the Music

Australia has become recognised for the range and talent of its musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities in general associated with the music industry

Garry McDonald AO

Norman Gunston (1973-1993) was a fictional television character, conceived by writer Wendy Skelcher and developed by actor Garry McDonald.

1 portrait in the collection

John Hillcoat

Previous exhibition, 2005

John Hillcoat (b. 1960), filmmaker, was born in Brisbane and grew up in Canada, the USA and Europe.

1 portrait in the collection

Cecil Beaton

Portraits

Accomplished illustrator, painter, writer and diarist, set designer and one of the most distinguished photographers of the twentieth century, Cecil Beaton is renowned for his portraits of well known faces from the worlds of fashion, literature, and film.

Jim Ferrier

Portrait, cast printer's metal

Jim Ferrier (1915-1986), golfer, grew up in Manly, was playing off scratch by his mid-teens, and left Sydney Grammar early in order to play more golf.

1 portrait in the collection

Jim Ferrier, n.d.

John Frith

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Frith family 2013

Nick Cave AO

Nick Cave AO (b. 1957), singer, songwriter and author, was born in Warracknabeal, Victoria, and educated at Caulfield Grammar School, where he formed his first band, The Boys Next Door.

7 portraits in the collection

Sir Jack Brabham OBE

Sir Jack Brabham OBE (1926-2014), racing car driver, was born in Hurstville, NSW, and studied mechanical engineering before working as a mechanic for the RAAF during WW2.

2 portraits in the collection

Klaus Friedeberger

Portrait, inkjet print on rag paper

Klaus Friedeberger (1922-2019) fled Germany for England at the age of sixteen, and the next year found himself on the Dunera bound for internment in Australia.

3 portraits in the collection

David Malangi Daymirringu, 1986

Martin van der Wal

Purchased 2005

Basil Hetzel AC

Basil Hetzel AC (1922-2017), medical scientist, came to South Australia as a three year old and was educated - like Nobel Prize winners William Lawrence Bragg, Howard Florey and Robin Warren - at St Peter's College and the University of Adelaide.

1 portrait in the collection

Andrew Charlton

Portrait, synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Andrew 'Boy' Charlton (1907-1975) was a keen surfer throughout his youth.

1 portrait in the collection

Nick Cave, 1999

Howard Arkley

Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 1999

Big shots

Magazine article by Djon Mundine OAM, 2017

Djon Mundine OAM brings poignant memory and context to Martin van der Wal’s 1986 portrait photographs of storied Aboriginal artists.

Basil Hetzel, 2007-2008

Mark Kimber

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Commissioned with funds provided by Mrs Diana Ramsay AO 2008

2013-14 Acquisition Fund

Annual Appeal

This 1910 portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts by Tom Roberts was brought into the Gallery's collection with the assistance of the Acquisition Fund in 2013.

Rachel Griffiths, 2002 (printed 2004)

Karin Catt

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Jimmy Barnes at The Coogee Bay Hotel 1984 (detail) Grant Matthews

Pub Rock

Your backstage pass to 70s and 80s sounds and scenes

Previous exhibition, 2020

Celebrate the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation’s identity.

Alex Kolozsy

Magazine article by Christine Clark, 2009

Alex Kolozsy left his native Transylvania for Hungary as a small child.

1 portrait in the collection

My Favourite Australian

The Australian public was invited in 2008 to vote for their favourite Australian. After the votes were tallied an exhibition of the top-ten Popular Australians and the top-twenty unsung heroes was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery.

Zhou Xiaoping

Zhou Xiaoping, born and educated in China, is a Melbourne-based artist.

1 portrait in the collection

George Hurrell