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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Neville and Jill Wran - as the Duke and Duchess of Sydney (with apologies to Piero della Francesca)
Neville and Jill Wran - as the Duke and Duchess of Sydney (with apologies to Piero della Francesca)
Neville and Jill Wran - as the Duke and Duchess of Sydney (with apologies to Piero della Francesca)
Frank Hodgkinson

Neville and Jill Wran - as the Duke and Duchess of Sydney (with apologies to Piero della Francesca), 1983

Portrait, oil on canvas (diptych)

Gift of Mrs Kate Hodgkinson 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Neville and Jill Wran - as the Duke and Duchess of Sydney (with apologies to Piero della Francesca)

Jill Hickson Wran AM

Biography

Jill Hickson Wran AM (b. 1948) graduated from the University of Sydney and then worked for Qantas.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait of Jill
Portrait of Jill
Portrait of Jill
Graeme Drendel

Portrait of Jill, 2021

Portrait, oil on board

Gift of the artist 2023

Jill Ker Conway
Jill Ker Conway
Jill Ker Conway
Sarah Belchetz-Swenson

Jill Ker Conway, 1987

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of an anonymous donor 2001

Portrait of Jill Neville
Portrait of Jill Neville
Portrait of Jill Neville
Reginald Gray

Portrait of Jill Neville, 1967 (completed 1997)

Portrait, oil and egg tempera on canvas

Gift of the artist 2002

Neville and Jill Wran - as the Duke and Duchess of Sydney (with apologies to Piero della Francesca)

Neville Wran AC QC

Biography

The Hon. Neville Wran AC QC (1926-2014) was the longest serving premier of New South Wales (1976 - 86), achieving major legal, social, environmental and cultural reforms.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait of Jill

Dr Jill Orr

Biography

Dr Jill Orr (born 1952) is a Melbourne-born contemporary artist, whose performance-based practice has continued to interrogate the environmental concerns since the 1970s.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait of Jill Neville

Jill Neville

Biography

Jill Neville (1932–1997), writer and critic, grew up in Sydney and attended a Blue Mountains boarding school.

1 portrait in the collection

Jill Ker Conway

Jill Ker Conway AC

Biography

Jill Ker Conway AC (1934-2018), academic, writer and company director, was born in Hillston in western New South Wales and spent her early years on her father's sheep station, Coorain, which was so isolated that she was seven years old before she saw another girl.

1 portrait in the collection

James McClelland
James McClelland
James McClelland
Nancy Borlase AM

James McClelland, 1946

Portrait, oil on composition board

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gillian Appleton (McClelland) 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Blow Back
Blow Back
Blow Back
Julie Rrap

Blow Back, 2018

Portrait, pigment photographic prints on paper, hand ground glass

Gift of the artist 2024. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

Burnum Burnum and Guboo Ted Thomas

Gubbo Thomas

Biography

Guboo Ted Thomas (1909–2002), land rights activist, was a tribal Elder of the Yuin nation and grew up on the Wallaga Lake Reserve near Narooma.

1 portrait in the collection

Tom Goldner

Tom Goldner

Vox pops

The portrait's of my mother, Catherine, and the photograph was taken in a family home that we had and my mother was relocating to Tasmania.

Portrait of Frank Lowy AC

Frank Lowy AC

Biography

Sir Frank Lowy AC (b. 1930) businessman, property developer and philanthropist, founded the Westfield group of shopping centres.

2 portraits in the collection

Sir Sidney Kidman

The fat of the land

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009

Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’. 

Jill Velinos Blue light hypnosis 2020

Virtually yours

Magazine article by Gillian Raymond, 2022

Gill Raymond on creating thought-provoking, interactive content to connect to our online community through portraiture.

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