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Professor Peter Doherty

A Meeting of Great Minds

Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2002

The story behind Rick Amor's portrait of Professor Peter Doherty.

General Cosgrove, Dili, East Timor 1999

On active service

Magazine article by Sam Bowker, 2007

The National Portrait Gallery has acquired an evocative depiction of soldier Peter Cosgrove by the Victorian-based painter, printmaker and sculptor Rick Amor.

Dorothy Porter

Beautiful bones

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011

Sarah Engledow reflects on the shared life and writing of Dorothy Porter and Andrea Goldsmith.

Professor Peter Doherty

Rick Amor 21 Portraits

20 November 2014

Archived media releases 2014

Press releases and image downloads for media.

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Image downloads

Rick Amor: 21 Portraits

Rick Amor 21 Portraits

Hi-resolution images for media representatives, password required.

Portrait 16

June - August 2005

This issue of Portrait Magazine features portraits by Rick Amor, colonial charicatures, Les Murray, Peter Porter, Helen Garner and more.

Portrait 35

March - May 2010

This issue features suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Wainewright, Rick Amor, Chuck Close, Mick Dodson, Scott Redford, the National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition and more.

Gary Catalano

Gary Catalano

Gary Catalano (1947-2002), poet and critic, was educated at Sydney’s Trinity Grammar and worked in a variety of jobs before a series of Australia Council grants in the late 1970s enabled him to devote himself full-time to writing.

3 portraits in the collection

Barry Humphries

Lewis Morley

Previous exhibition, 2003

Lewis Morley has a great eye for a shot and a sharp ear for a pun

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Graeme Drendel

Graeme Drendel (b. 1953) is a Melbourne-based painter and printmaker.

1 portrait in the collection

Lewis Morley

Lewis Morley

Lewis Morley (1925–2013) established his reputation as one of the key British photographers of the 1960s and is known for his iconic image of a nude Christine Keeler straddling an Arne Jacobsen chair.

50 portraits in the collection

Michelle de Kretser, Geography & History

Michelle de Kretser, Geography & History

Michelle de Kretser, Geography & History

Michelle de Kretser, Geography & History, 2013

Portrait, synthetic polymer paint, charcoal, pastel and conté on linen

Gift of Michelle de Kretser 2015. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

David Malouf

David Malouf

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 2016

Margaret Whitlam

Open Air

Portraits in the Landscape

Previous exhibition, 2008

Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them.

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Robyn Davidson

Robyn Davidson (b. 1950), writer, attended a Brisbane boarding school before moving to Sydney, where she lived a loosely bohemian lifestyle.

2 portraits in the collection

Patrick White at Centennial Park, 1979–1980

White Whiteley

The portrait of Patrick White by Brett Whiteley

Previous exhibition, 2012

Eleven works by Brett Whiteley, centred around his scintillating 'Patrick White at Centennial Park 1979-1980'.

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