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The Art Handlers' Award for 2023 went to Ugandan Ssebabi, 2022 by David Cossini.
Godfrey's amazing man. I've known him for four years now. He has a very tough story.
Bessie Gibson (1868-1961), like Harold Parker, studied under Godfrey Rivers at the Brisbane Central Technical College, where she developed an interest in miniature painting.
1 portrait in the collection
Tuisko Turso (‘TT’) Seppelt (1891-1957) was Victorian manager of the Seppelt wine company from 1917.
1 portrait in the collection
Ellen Kent examines the portrait of Vincent Lingiari and Prime Minister Gough Whitlam taken by photographer Mervyn Bishop.
Vincent Lingiari AM (1919–1988) was an Elder of the Gurindji people of the Northern Territory.
1 portrait in the collection
This is the first major exhibition to examine photographic portraiture in Australia, from its beginnings in the early 1840s to the present day
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Liibus family 2015
David Strachan (1919–1970), painter and printmaker, was educated at Geelong Grammar School and then studied art at the Slade School in London.
2 portraits in the collection
The artist's diary profiles six decades of Cassab's work, from the early portrait commissions of the 1950s to later paintings that have helped confirm her eminent place in the canon of Australian portraiture.
Christian Waller (née Yandell, 1894–1954), printmaker, muralist and stained-glass artist, was born in Castlemaine, Victoria and commenced studying art at the Castlemaine School of Mines in 1905.
1 portrait in the collection