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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

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Kevin Weldon

Kevin Weldon

Kevin Weldon

Kevin Weldon, 1978

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Kevin Weldon 2012

Noel McGrowdie

Noel McGrowdie

Noel 'Digger' McGrowdie (1920-1961), jockey, was born in Brisbane and educated at a Christian Brothers School in Toowoomba before being apprenticed in Brisbane at the age of fourteen.

1 portrait in the collection

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Christopher Morris

Christopher Morris studied photography at Griffith University in Brisbane in the mid 1990s, during which he photographed many of the leading names in contemporary music including U2, Oasis, Pearl Jam, The Sex Pistols and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

1 portrait in the collection

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Tish Linehan

UK-born, Brisbane-based artist Tish Linehan (b. 1983) gained her undergraduate degree in visual arts from the Australian National University and subsequently completed a teaching qualification.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait bust of Dr Christine Rivett

Christine Rivett

Amy Christine Rivett (1891–1962), doctor, contributed greatly to medicine and women's health.

1 portrait in the collection

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Jun Chen

Jun Chen (b. 1960), based in Brisbane, trained in traditional Chinese brush painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China.

1 portrait in the collection

Kyra Mancktelow: You’re just too deadly, 2022 Dylan Mooney

Kyra Mancktelow: You’re just too deadly

Tony Albert: Aww bless, 2023 Dylan Mooney

Tony Albert: Aww bless

Eddie Liu, 2012 by David Kelly

Eddie Liu, 2012

Dylan Mooney: You say tru gawd, 2023 Dylan Mooney

Dylan Mooney: You say tru gawd

Thea Anamara Perkins: Hey you mob, 2023 Dylan Mooney

Thea Anamara Perkins: Hey you mob

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Pam MacFarlane

Pamela MacFarlane was born in Dunedin, NZ and completed a Master's degree in Zoology at the University of Otago in the 1940s.

1 portrait in the collection

Betty Churcher

Tribute

Magazine article, 2015

Betty Churcher AO (1931–2015), gallery director, author, painter and lecturer, was educated in Brisbane before studying art in London.

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Equestrian self portrait, 2004

William Robinson AO

Portrait, colour lithograph on paper

Purchased 2022

Francis Lymburner

Francis Lymburner

Francis Lymburner (1916-1972) was a Queensland-born artist who was educated at Brisbane Grammar and took art classes at Brisbane Technical College.

2 portraits in the collection

hey, Betty (Portrait of Betty Churcher)

hey, Betty (Portrait of Betty Churcher)

hey, Betty (Portrait of Betty Churcher)

hey, Betty (Portrait of Betty Churcher), 1990

Portrait, oil on plywood

Gift of the artist 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

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