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.
