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'awk' (Bob Hawke)

1972
Frank Hinder

fibre-tipped pen on paper (sheet: 26.3 cm x 23.8 cm)
'awk' (Bob Hawke)

Robert James Lee Hawke AC GCL (1929-2019) was Australia’s 23rd prime minister, from March 1983 to December 1991. Hawke remains the longest-serving Labor prime minister in Australia's history.

Gift of HOTA (Home of the Arts), Gold Coast 2019 with the encouragement of Patrick Corrigan AM
© Enid Hawkins (nee Hinder)

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2019.16
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Artist and subject

Frank Hinder (age 66 in 1972)

Bob Hawke (age 43 in 1972)

Subject professions

Government and leadership

Donated by

HOTA (Home of the Arts) (9 portraits)

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1. Self portrait, 1949 Frank Hinder. © Enid Hawkins (nee Hinder). 2. Bob Hawke, 2012 Luke Cornish. © Luke Cornish. 3. Gough Whitlam and Bob Hawke, c. 1976 (printed 2017) Robert McFarlane. © Robert McFarlane/Copyright Agency, 2024. 4. Discussion between Bob Hawke and Yunupingu, Burunga Festival, Northern Territory, 1988 (printed 2015) Sue Ford. © Sue Ford/Copyright Agency, 2024.

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Barrie Cassidy pays textured tribute to the inimitable Bob Hawke.
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Primed

Some Prime Ministers

Previous exhibition, 2019

Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
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