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Adam Perkins
Biography
Adam Perkins, an Arrernte and Kalkadoon man, is the son of Indigenous rights campaigner and bureaucrat Charles Perkins AO.
1 portrait in the collection
Adam Knott
Biography
Adam Knott (b. 1966) began taking photographs for local newspapers as a schoolboy in St George, South Sydney.
7 portraits in the collection
Adam Cullen
Biography
Adam Cullen (1965-2012), painter, studied art in Sydney from 1986 to 1999, when he obtained his master’s degree in fine arts from the University of New South Wales.
8 portraits in the collection
Adam Goodes
Biography
Adnyamathanha/Narungga man Adam Goodes (b. 1980) is a former champion AFL footballer who played 369 games with the Sydney Swans.
2 portraits in the collection
Tony Adam
Biography
Tony Adam (b. 1938) model, grazier and farmhand, grew up in Melbourne and attended Melbourne Grammar school, but left when he was sixteen.He went to work on Angledool and Llanillo stations in outback New South Wales and Queensland.
1 portrait in the collection
Bon Scott
Biography
Ronald 'Bon' Scott (1946-1980) had come to Australia with his family in 1952, aged six, had lived in Melbourne and Fremantle, where he joined a pipe band; had dropped out of school at fifteen; and had spent some time in custody.
1 portrait in the collection
Adam Lindsay Gordon
Biography
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833-1870) was a poet and horseman. Well-educated, from a relatively well-to-do family, he learned to ride as a boy in England and secured a position in the South Australian Mounted Police in 1852.
1 portrait in the collection
Roger Scott
Biography
Roger Scott (b. 1944) is a freelance documentary photographer known in particular for his images of protests and rallies held in Sydney in the 1970s.
2 portraits in the collection
Dolores Scott
Biography
When Michael Riley photographed Dolores Scott in the 1980s, she was a dancer with the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association.
1 portrait in the collection
Rose Scott
Biography
Rose Scott (1847-1925), feminist and social reformer, devoted much of her life to campaigns that resulted in increased independence for Australian women.
1 portrait in the collection
Scott Redford
Biography
Scott Redford (b. 1962) is a highly significant and influential Australian contemporary artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s.
2 portraits in the collection
Adam Chang (Hong Jun Zhang)
Biography
Adam Chang (Hong Jun Zhang) (b. 1960), in a Sydney based portrait painter.
2 portraits in the collection
Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE
Biography
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
Angus Young
Biography
Angus Young (b. 1955), guitarist and songwriter, was a founding member of Australia's most successful ever band, AC/DC.
3 portraits in the collection
Eileen Perkins
Biography
Eileen Perkins is a descendant of one of Adelaide's prominent German Lutheran families.
1 portrait in the collection
Darren McDonald
Biography
Darren McDonald gained his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) degree from RMIT in 2000, having completed an associate diploma in painting at the same institution.
1 portrait in the collection