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Tribute
Stevie Wright
Magazine article, 2016
Stevie Wright (1947-2015), singer-songwriter, came to Australia from England at the age of nine.
Stevie
Magazine article by Gregory McBean, 2005
Gregory McBean writes about photographing recent ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, singer Stevie Wright.
All in the Family
Magazine article by Barbara Blackman AO, 2003
In 2000, Barbara Blackman donated a portrait of her close friends - poet Judith Wright, her husband Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith - painted by Charles Blackman.
Big bouquet of Blackmans
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2013
Dr. Sarah Engledow explores the context surrounding Charles Blackman's portrait of Judith Wright, Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith.
The activist A-list
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2007
Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.
Tribute
Bob Ellis
Magazine article, 2016
Bob Ellis (1942–2016) was a journalist, columnist, screenwriter, film director, playwright, speechwriter and critic.
Give me five
Magazine article by Karen Quinlan AM, 2021
National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan AM nominates her quintet of favourites from the collection, with early twentieth-century ‘selfies’ filling the roster.
Alter ego
Magazine article by Tom Fryer, 2021
Tom Fryer surveys the twentieth-century architectural project, and finds representation and the portrait were integral elements.
Past present
Magazine article by Krysia Kitch, 2016
Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Self-effacing
Magazine article by Michael Wardell, 2016
Michael Wardell samples the fare in the University of Queensland National Self-portrait Prize.
Air wear
Magazine article by Esther Agostino, 2015
Aviation carried women’s roles in society to greater heights – fashion followed suit.
Citizen Kenne
Magazine article by April Thompson, 2013
April Thompson explores an exhibition of Ingvar Kenne’s global portrait project.
Poets' Portraits
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2005
The Portrait Gallery's paintings of two poets, Les Murray and Peter Porter, demonstrate two very different artists' responses to the challenge of representing more than usually sensitive and imaginative men.
Material culture
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2018
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
The Lawrence lustre
Magazine article by Angus Trumble, 2019
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Starry knight
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2010
Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.