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Josonia Palaitis

Josonia Palaitis trained as an art teacher in Sydney in the early 1970s, and experimented with diverse painting styles before settling into the photorealist mode for which she became best known.

1 portrait in the collection

Gordon and Marilyn Darling

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Basil Hetzel

Basil Hetzel AC

Basil Hetzel AC (1922-2017), medical scientist, came to South Australia as a three year old and was educated - like Nobel Prize winners William Lawrence Bragg, Howard Florey and Robin Warren - at St Peter's College and the University of Adelaide.

1 portrait in the collection

Reko Rennie

Reko Rennie

Reko Rennie

Reko Rennie, 2014

Portrait, enamel, gloss acrylic, perspex, masonite and metal sign on board

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Imelda Roche

Imelda Roche AO

Imelda Roche AO (b. 1934), with husband Bill, introduced the Nutri-Metics skin care range to Australia in 1968.

1 portrait in the collection

Imelda Roche

Imelda Roche

Imelda Roche

Imelda Roche, 2003

Portrait, oil on canvas

Commissioned 2003

Lan Wang, Xini, Jiawei Shen and Billy

Lan Wang, Xini, Jiawei Shen and Billy

Lan Wang, Xini, Jiawei Shen and Billy

Lan Wang, Xini, Jiawei Shen and Billy, 2010

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased 2012

Robert Manne

Robert Manne AO

Robert Manne (b. 1947), academic and writer, grew up in Melbourne, the child of European Jewish refugees.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir William Deane 2008

Sir William Deane AC KBE KC

Sir William Deane AC KBE KC (b. 1931), High Court judge, was governor-general of Australia from early 1996 to mid-2001.

1 portrait in the collection

Basil Hetzel

Basil Hetzel

Basil Hetzel

Basil Hetzel, 2007-2008

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Commissioned with funds provided by Mrs Diana Ramsay AO 2008

Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin

Steve Irwin (1962-2006) achieved international fame as the 'Crocodile Hunter'.

1 portrait in the collection

Sir William Deane 2008

Sir William Deane 2008

Sir William Deane 2008

Sir William Deane 2008, 2008

Merilyn Fairskye

Portrait, single channel moving image, colour, sound, 2 minutes, 47 seconds

Purchased 2011

Geoff Cousins

Geoff Cousins

Geoff Cousins

Geoff Cousins, 2017

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Geoff Cousins AM 2007

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New Chief Patron for the National Portrait Gallery

Archived media releases 2016

Mrs Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO has accepted an invitation to become the new Chief Patron of the National Portrait Gallery.

The Boys Next Door

Oz Punk

Sends a permanent shiver down my spine

General content

In 1976, without having been blooded on the Sydney or Melbourne pub circuit, The Saints recorded a single – ‘(I’m) Stranded’ – earning them the distinction of releasing a punk single before The Sex Pistols did.

Mal Meninga

Mal Meninga, 2018

by Peter Hudson

General content

Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018

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