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Ricky Maynard
Mick Dodson, 2010
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2010
Juno Gemes
No Fixed Address from 'Rock Against Racism' concert, Redfern, 1980
Portrait, sepia toned strip proof on paper
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Juno Gemes
Tiga Bayles with No Fixed Address at the People for Nuclear Disarmament rally on Palm Sunday, 27 March 1983, 1983
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Ricky Maynard
Biography
Ricky Maynard (b. 1953) is an Indigenous Tasmanian photographer. He is best known for his Tasmanian photographic essays The Moonbird People (1985–1988) and Portrait of a Distant Land (2005), made while he was living and working on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait.
1 portrait in the collection
Frank Hurley OBE
Self portrait, c. 1911
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2005
Penny Tweedie
Bart Willoughby, c. 2000
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2004
Juno Gemes
Bart Willoughby (No Fixed Address) at 'The National Land Rights Action' march, 1982
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Andrew Maccoll
Eric Bana, 2006 (printed 2012)
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2012
Indomitable spirit
Magazine article by Ricky Maynard, 2010
Photographer Ricky Maynard talks us through the creation of the portrait commission of Mick Dodson.
Bart Willoughby
Biography
Bart Willoughby (b. 1960) is a Pitjantjantjara and Mirning singer/songwriter who is one of the Stolen Generations.
2 portraits in the collection
123 Faces
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2002
Magda Keaney examines the 123 Faces project by Simon Obarzanek.
How to be a boy
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2011
Christopher Chapman profiles Chris Lilley, actor and creator of Angry Boys.
Activating the space
Magazine article by Sandra Phillips, 2020
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Of ice and men
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Frank Hurley's celebrated images document the heroism and minutiae of Australian exploration in Antarctica.
The existential lens
Magazine article by Stephen Zagala, 2013
Stephen Zagala discusses Richard Avedon’s work from an Australian perspective.
The 'I' in Indigenous art
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2013
Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.