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Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt

Glenn Murcutt, 1980 (printed 2017)

Robert McFarlane

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Nancy Borlase and Laurie Short

Nancy Borlase and Laurie Short

Nancy Borlase and Laurie Short

Nancy Borlase and Laurie Short, 1991

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust 1998

Dr Fiona Wood AM

Fiona Wood AO

Fiona Wood AO (b.1958), plastic and reconstructive surgeon, is co-founder of the biotech company Clinical Cell Culture Limited (known as C3), which pioneers and commercialises treatments for burns.

1 portrait in the collection

Turia Pitt

Turia Pitt

Turia Pitt

Turia Pitt, 2017 (printed 2021)

Peter Brew-Bevan

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2021

Anneliese Seubert

Anneliese Seubert

Anneliese Seubert

Anneliese Seubert, 1997 (printed 2014)

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of the artist 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Nancy Borlase and Laurie Short

Nancy Borlase AM

Nancy Borlase AM (1914–2006), painter and writer, was born in New Zealand, and had to be dug out of the wreckage when an earthquake struck Napier in late 1931.

4 portraits in the collection

Dame Margaret Scott

Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE

Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE (1922-2019) ballerina and teacher, was scarred by her education in a Johannesburg convent boarding school and left her home on a Swaziland farm in 1939.

1 portrait in the collection

Peter Garrett by Karin Catt

Famous

Karin Catt Portraits

Previous exhibition, 2006

Australian photographer Karin Catt has photographed world leaders, a host of rock stars and Oscar-winning compatriots Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, and Cate Blanchett.

Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin, 2005

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006

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Dora Byrne, 1951

Richard von Marientreu

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013

Bourgeois family: Mirror frieze, 2001 From the series Re-take of Amrita
by Vivan Sundaram

Vivan Sundaram

by Rakhee Balaram

Born in 1943 in Simla, Vivan Sundaram’s long career has given him opportunities to work in a range of mediums – painting, installation, assemblage, photography, digital media and film.

Rosina Carandini

Rosina Carandini

Rosina Carandini

Rosina Carandini, mid 1860s

Portrait, albumen photograph on carte de visite

Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009

Fannie Carandini

Fannie Carandini

Fannie Carandini

Fannie Carandini, mid 1860s

Portrait, albumen photograph on carte de visite

Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009

Queen Alexandra and Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia, Hvidore, circa 1908 by Mary Steen

The cost of living luxuriously

About Face article

In 1904, the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia purchased as a gift for her sister, Queen Alexandra, a fan composed of two-color gold, guilloché enamel, mother-of-pearl, blond tortoiseshell, gold sequins, silk, cabochon rubies, and rose diamonds from the House of Fabergé in Saint Petersburg.

JS Study 1

Jeffrey Smart AO

Jeffrey Smart (1921–2013) was an iconic realist painter, acclaimed for his urban and industrial landscapes which form one of the most original and recognisable bodies of work in the canon of Australian art.

6 portraits in the collection

Jacki Weaver

Jacki Weaver, 2018

by John Tsiavis

General content

Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018

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