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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.

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Dr Roberta Sykes and Naomi

Roberta Sykes

Roberta Sykes (1943–2010), writer and activist, grew up in Townsville and moved to Sydney in the mid-1960s.

1 portrait in the collection

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Quentin Jones

Over the past 18 years Quentin Jones has worked on most Fairfax mastheads, including The Good Weekend and The Sydney Magazine.

2 portraits in the collection

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Chris Budgeon

Chris Budgeon, born and educated in Canada, has lived in Australia since 1983 and has forged an outstanding career in the advertising industry, winning a number of industry awards, including selection in Lurzer's Archive 'top 200 advertising photographers World Wide' in 2004/2005, 2006/2007 and 2008/2009.

1 portrait in the collection

Shigeo Sawada

Shigeo Sawada

Shigeo Sawada (1890-1940) was the Managing Director of Okura and Co. Trading Ltd in Sydney from 1937 to his death.

1 portrait in the collection

Blow Back

Petrina Hicks

Petrina Hicks (b. 1972) is a photographer whose work interrogates female identity and the representation of women throughout history.

3 portraits in the collection

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Ruth Maddison

Ruth Maddison began taking photographs in the mid-1970s and exhibited her Christmas Holiday with Bob’s Family – a series of hand-coloured, snapshot-style images mimicking scenes from a family photo album – at Ewing Gallery in Melbourne in 1979.

1 portrait in the collection

Florence Cardell-Oliver

Dame Annie Florence Cardell-Oliver DBE

Dame Annie Florence Cardell-Oliver DBE (1876–1965), politician, grew up in Melbourne before marrying David Sykes Boyd, a wool buyer, and returning with him to England.

1 portrait in the collection

William Robinson

William Robinson AO

William Robinson AO (1936-2025) was one of Australia's most distinguished and influential contemporary painters, known for his distinctive and prolific output as landscape painter in particular.

3 portraits in the collection

Portrait of Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet

Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet

Louis-Claude Desaulses de Freycinet (1779–1842), hydrographer and cartographer, sailed with Nicolas Baudin on the Expédition aux terres australes, a journey of discovery, commissioned by Napoléon, to the unknown southern coast of New Holland.

1 portrait in the collection

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