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Geoffrey Roland Robertson

Geoffrey Roland Robertson

Geoffrey Roland Robertson

Geoffrey Roland Robertson, 1999 (printed 2022)

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2022

"Poet of the Hawkesbury" Robert Adamson, 2012

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of the artist 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Steven Bishop, performer by Nathalie Latham

Here and there

Magazine article by Geoffrey Batchen, 2007

Nathalie Latham's exhibition Australia's Creative Diaspora explores Australians, in the arts, who live and work internationally.

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Two gentlemen celebrating a birthday (Frank Watters and Geoffrey Legge), 1974

Portrait, painted wood, denim, wool, plastic and candles

Gift of Frank Watters OAM 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

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Portrait of Dame Roma Mitchell, 1940s

Geoffrey Mainwaring

Portrait, pastel on paper

Gift of friends of Dame Roma Mitchell 2018

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Keith Laught, 1951

Geoffrey Shedley

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Mary Shedley, Mrs Christine Moriarty, Mrs Josephine Lawrence and Mrs Helen Beare 2010

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters, 2008

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters, 1999

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2021

Portrait 41

October - November 2011

This issue features Kate Beynon, Philosopher Cynthia Freeland, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, John Tsiavis & Chris Lilley, UK's BP Portrait Award, Purchasing power in colonial Sydney and more.

My home, 2014 by Peter Blakeman

My home, 2014

by Peter Blakeman

Mandawuy Yunupingu

Resilience

Indigenous leadership

General content

Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Neville Bonner, Lowitja O'Donoghue, Mandawuy Yunupingu and Adam Goodes

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W.A. Bowring

Walter Bowring, born and educated in Auckland, contributed cartoons to the New Zealand observer and The weekly press, exhibited with the Canterbury Society of Arts and studied with Orpen and John in London, where he contributed to Punch, before arriving in Sydney in 1925.

3 portraits in the collection

Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground

Protest!

How can we dance when our earth is turning?

General content

Rock’s raw potency made it the ideal medium for fomenting protest. The 1970s, 80s and onwards saw calls for social and environmental justice ring out through song.

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Gary Grealy

Gary Grealy (b. 1950) has established himself over many years as one of Sydney’s leading commercial and portrait photographers with work commissioned by leading advertising agencies and major national and international clients.

11 portraits in the collection

Paul Kelly

Face the Music

Previous exhibition, 2005

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

Cormac and Callum, 2008 by Ingvar Kenne

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

Previous exhibition, 2009

In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.

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