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Bleddyn Butcher
Biography
Bleddyn Butcher was born in London and came to Australia when he was six.
5 portraits in the collection
Warumpi Band
Biography
The Warumpi Band burst onto the Australian music scene in 1984 with the release of their first album Big Name, No Blankets.
2 portraits in the collection
George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga
Biography
George Rrurrambu Burarrwanga (1957–2007) was a Yolngu singer, activist and a founding member of the Warumpi Band.
2 portraits in the collection
Neil Murray
Biography
Neil Murray (b. 1956), singer/songwriter, grew up in country Victoria, studied art and became a teacher.
2 portraits in the collection
Tony Roche
Biography
Tony Roche, a left-hander with a fine backhand volley who was twice ranked No 2 in the world, was born the son of a Tarcutta butcher in 1945.
2 portraits in the collection
Robyn A. Nevin AO
Biography
Robin Nevin AO (b. 1942), actor, director and theatre administrator, is the artistic director and chief executive officer of the Sydney Theatre Company.
1 portrait in the collection
Samuel Wood
Biography
Samuel 'Sammy' Woods (1867-1931), cricketer, is one of only five men to have played Tests for both Australia and England.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Sidney Kidman
Biography
Sir Sidney Kidman, pastoralist (1857-1935), is Australia's 'cattle king'.
2 portraits in the collection
Robert Campbell Jnr
Biography
Robert Campbell Junior, urban Aboriginal artist, was a Ngaku/Dhunghutti man who grew up in Kempsey, New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
George Tjungurrayi
Biography
George Tjungurrayi (b. c. 1943–1947) is a highly respected senior Pintupi artist.
2 portraits in the collection
Ralph Sutton
Biography
Ralph Sutton (1908-1967), Methodist minister, trained in Sydney, was ordained in 1935 and began his career in Mosman Methodist Church.
1 portrait in the collection
William H. Bardwell
Biography
William H. Bardwell, photographer, worked at various premises in Ballarat from 1858 until 1895.
1 portrait in the collection
Frank Gardiner
Biography
Francis Gardiner (Christie) (1830-c. 1903), bushranger, came to New South Wales with his family as a child.
1 portrait 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
Betsy (Bessie) Lee
Biography
Betsy (Bessie) Lee Cowie (1860–1950), 'Australia's Temperance Queen', spent the early part of her life in Daylesford, Victoria, one of the five children of Henry Vickery, a butcher and miner, and his wife Emma.
1 portrait in the collection
Marianne Egan
Biography
Mary Anne Egan (also Marianne or Marian, née Cheers, 1818–1857), was born in Sydney, the daughter of ex-convicts.
1 portrait in the collection