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Jon Rhodes

Biography

Since the 1970s Jon Rhodes has told photographic stories of life in many Aboriginal communities, and completed Cage of Ghosts, an exhibition documenting attempts to preserve and protect some important Aboriginal cultural sites in south-eastern Australia..

1 portrait in the collection

Sarah Rhodes

Biography

Sarah Rhodes (b. 1974) studied fine art and psychology and later majored in journalism and photography, gaining her arts degree and a master’s in publishing from the University of Sydney.

1 portrait in the collection

I met Clara while teaching photomedia at the University of Tasmania last year. One of her assignments focused on her relationship with her former boyfriend, who she now works for as his live-in carer.

John Tjakamarra, 1974 (printed 2007)

Jon Rhodes

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2008

Tony Shaw, 2018

Sarah Rhodes

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on dibond

Commissioned with funds provided by the Patrick Corrigan Portrait Commission Series 2018

Tony Shaw, 2018

by Sarah Rhodes

General content

Commissioned with funds from the Patrick Corrigan Portrait Commission Series 2018

Jon Rhodes, Smart St. Films office

Carol Jerrems

Image

Adela R. Walker

Biography

Adela Russell Walker (1847–1932), the youngest of her parents' thirteen children, was born in Longford and was 22 when she married George Coleridge Nixon, who was the son of Francis Russell Nixon – an amateur artist and Anglican Bishop of Tasmania from 1843 to 1862.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir James Gobbo, 1983

Paul Fitzgerald AM

Portrait, synthetic polymer paint on canvas

Gift of Mercy Health and Aged Care 2006

Justice Robin Millhouse, Maslin Beach, South Australia

Justice Robin Millhouse, Maslin Beach, South Australia, 1992-1993 (printed 2019)

Robin Sellick

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

David Chalmers

Biography

David Chalmers (b. 1966) is world-renowned in the field of the philosophy of consciousness.

2 portraits in the collection

Jeremy Ellis AO

Biography

Jeremy (Jerry) Ellis (b. 1927) was Chairman of BHP from 1997 to 1999.

1 portrait in the collection

Howard Florey Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston, OM KBE FRS

Biography

Sir Howard Florey OM KBE FRS FAA (1898–1968) pioneered the development and use of antibiotics.

2 portraits in the collection

Anna F. Walker

Biography

Anna Frances Walker (1830–1913), botanical artist and collector, was one of the thirteen children of Thomas Walker, a high-ranking colonial public servant, and his wife Anna Elizabeth, the daughter of merchant and landowner John Blaxland.

1 portrait in the collection

Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC DCL

Biography

The Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC DCL (1919-2011), academic, writer and former Governor-General, was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne before serving in the navy in the Second World War.

3 portraits in the collection

Zelman Cowen, c. 1977

Ray Crooke AM

Portrait, pencil and oil on canvas laid on chipboard

Gift of David Crooke 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Sir Kenneth Gillespie

Biography

Sir Kenneth Gillespie (1929–2010), dancer, teacher and founder of the Tasmanian Ballet, left his native Launceston at age sixteen to join the Borovansky Ballet in Melbourne.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir Laurence McIntyre CBE

Biography

Sir Laurence McIntyre CBE (1912-1981) diplomat and public servant, was Australian ambassador to the UN during the 1970s.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir John Eccles, 1959

Pam MacFarlane

Portrait, pastel on paper

Gift of an anonymous donor 2007

Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS

Biography

Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS FAA (1903-1997), neuroscientist, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for his discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir Zelman Cowen, 1982

Andrew Sibley

Portrait, pencil, brush and ink on paper

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

Lord Florey, c. 1966

Louis Kahan AO

Portrait, fibre-tipped pen on paper

Purchased 1998

Hugh Kingsley Ward

Biography

Hugh Kingsley Ward MC (1887-1972), bacteriologist, was educated at Sydney Grammar and the University of Sydney before being awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 1911 and proceeding to Oxford.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir Howard Florey OM KBE FRS FAA, 1985

Andor Meszaros

Portrait, cast bronze medallion on wood plaque

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Ray Marginson AM 2001

Kenneth Gillespie, 2005

Dean Beletich

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph, selenium toned on paper

Purchased 2015

Sir Zelman Cowen, 2000

Wes Walters

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Marc Besen AO and Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE 2000

Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson AM

Biography

Professor Jaynie Anderson is the Herald Chair of Fine Arts and Foundation Director of the Australian Institute of Art History at the University of Melbourne.

1 portrait in the collection

Dissections

Layered portraits from the collection

Previous exhibition, 2016

This display sets two impressive portraits from the collection into direct dialogue: Sam Jinks’ sculptural self portrait and Nick Mourtzakis’ painted portrait of David Chalmers, along with related maquette and sketches.Together they explore physical and psychological manifestations of the strata of self-hood.

Portrait of Jerry Ellis, 1999

Lewis Miller

Portrait, oil on Belgian linen

Gift of BHP Billiton 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Chet Baker, singer, New York City, January 16, 1986 by Richard Avedon

The existential lens

Magazine article by Stephen Zagala, 2013

Stephen Zagala discusses Richard Avedon’s work from an Australian perspective.

Twenty new portraits marking Portrait Gallery’s twentieth birthday

21 August 2018

Archived media releases 2018

To celebrate the National Portrait Gallery’s twentieth anniversary as an institution, twenty portraits of outstanding Australian individuals have been commissioned for the permanent collection. This is the largest undertaking for the Gallery’s commissioning program in its twenty-year existence.

Leigh Bowery, 1984

Robyn Beeche

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of Claudia Hyles, Dr Christiane Lawin-Bruessel, Gwenda Matthews, Gael Newton, Anne O'Hehir, Susan Smith and Dominic Thomas in memory of our friend, Robyn Beeche 2016

Geoffrey R. Robertson AO KC

Biography

Geoffrey Roland Robertson AO KC (b. 1946), barrister, academic and defender of human rights, grew up in Sydney, attending Epping Boys' High and then the University of Sydney.

1 portrait in the collection

National Portrait Gallery unveils twenty new portrait commissions to celebrate twenty years

18 October 2018

Archived media releases 2018

The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.

Finalists announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize

14 November 2018

Archived media releases 2018

The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.

Rennie Ellis

Aussies All

Previous exhibition, 2006

Rennie Ellis: Aussies All is a celebration of the life and work of the late Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.

Bob Hawke

Biography

Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke (1929-2019) moved with his family from South Australia to Perth in 1939.

9 portraits in the collection

Richard Flanagan

Biography

Richard Flanagan (b. 1961) was born in Longford in northern Tasmania, the second youngest of the six children of Archie Flanagan, a primary school principal, and his wife Helen.

1 portrait in the collection

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

Previous exhibition, 2020

The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.

Aussies all

Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2006

The exhibition Aussies all features the ecclectic portrait photography of Rennie Ellis which captures Australian life during the 70s and 80s.

The Art Lovers - Megan, 2013 by Gary Grealy

Everybody, look serious

NPPP 2014 exhibition essay

General content

Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.

Lyndall Hobbs and Marilyn at the Come as your favourite blonde party, Blitz Club, London, 1979 Robert Rosen

Shiny, happy people

Magazine article by Glynis Jones, 2022

Glynis Jones on the Powerhouse’s retrospective of one of Australia’s foremost fashion reportage and social photographers.

Flash mob

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2019

Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.

20/20 launch speech

About Face article

Dr Helen Nugent AO, Chairman, National Portrait Gallery at the opening of 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.

Christmas Island

About Face article

This is my last Trumbology before, in a little more than a week from now, I pass to my successor Karen Quinlan the precious baton of the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery.

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Jon Rhodes

Sarah Rhodes

The Christening, 2014

Sophie, 2013

Play, 2010

Paper plane, 2019

Mirror identical twins with autism, 2018

Observation point

John Tjakamarra, 1974 (printed 2007)

Tony Shaw, 2018

Tony Shaw, 2018

Jon Rhodes, Smart St. Films office

Adela R. Walker

Sir James Gobbo, 1983

Justice Robin Millhouse, Maslin Beach, South Australia, 1992-1993 (printed 2019)

David Chalmers

Jeremy Ellis AO

Howard Florey Baron Florey of Adelaide and Marston, OM KBE FRS

Anna F. Walker

Rt Hon Sir Zelman Cowen AK GCMG GCVO QC DCL

Zelman Cowen, c. 1977

Sir Kenneth Gillespie

Sir Laurence McIntyre CBE

Sir John Eccles, 1959

Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS

Sir Zelman Cowen, 1982

Lord Florey, c. 1966

Hugh Kingsley Ward

Sir Howard Florey OM KBE FRS FAA, 1985

Kenneth Gillespie, 2005

Sir Zelman Cowen, 2000

Emeritus Professor Jaynie Anderson AM

Dissections

Portrait of Jerry Ellis, 1999

The existential lens

Twenty new portraits marking Portrait Gallery’s twentieth birthday

Leigh Bowery, 1984

Geoffrey R. Robertson AO KC

National Portrait Gallery unveils twenty new portrait commissions to celebrate twenty years

Finalists announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize

Rennie Ellis

Bob Hawke

Richard Flanagan

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

Aussies all

Everybody, look serious

Shiny, happy people

Flash mob

20/20 launch speech

Christmas Island