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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
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
Neville Amadio AM MBE
Biography
Neville Amadio AM MBE (1913-2006), flautist, played for some fifty years with iterations of the same Sydney orchestra, first called the 2FC Broadcasting Orchestra, then the ABC Orchestra then, from 1934, the Sydney Symphony.
1 portrait in the collection
Neville Gruzman AM
Biography
Neville Gruzman AM (1925–2005), architect and lecturer, was born in Sydney, the son of immigrants of Russian heritage.
1 portrait in the collection
Neville Bonner AO
Biography
Neville Bonner (1922–1999) was the first Indigenous Australian elected to federal parliament.
2 portraits in the collection
Martin Sharp
Biography
Martin Sharp (1942-2013), printmaker, painter, cartoonist, designer, songwriter and film-maker, is one of Australia's foremost pop artists.
7 portraits in the collection
Richard Walsh
Biography
Sydney-born Richard Walsh (b. 1941) is an Australian publisher, journalist, broadcaster, editor, lecturer and company director.
1 portrait in the collection
Jim Anderson
Biography
Jim Anderson was born in England, his family moving to Australia when he was one year old.
1 portrait in the collection
Dora Toovey
Biography
Dora Toovey, born in Bathurst, trained in Sydney under Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo, James R Jackson (whom she married) and John Passmore.
2 portraits in the collection
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
Nigel Boonham
Biography
Nigel Boonham is a British sculptor. He studied under John Ravera from 1973-1977 and later worked in the studio of sculptor Oscar Nemon.
1 portrait in the collection
Judith O'Conal-Prinz
Biography
Judith O’Conal grew up in Sydney’s Rocks area and became interested in art as she repeatedly passed the plaque advertising the Julian Ashton School.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Eric Smith
Biography
Eric Smith (1919-2017), painter, was born in Brunswick, Melbourne, and trained in commercial art at the Brunswick Technical College before serving in the army during World War 2.
6 portraits in the collection
Robert Whitaker
Biography
Robert Whitaker, English photographer, spent three years in Melbourne in the early 1960s, becoming friends with Mirka and Georges Mora, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer, the Heide crowd and Martin Sharp and Richard Neville.
1 portrait in the collection
Victor Trumper
Biography
Victor Trumper (1877-1915), is one of Australia's all-time great cricket batsmen.
1 portrait in the collection