Alexis Wright (b. 1950), author and activist, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria and the 2018 Stella Prize for her collective memoir Tracker.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of the artist 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
The Hon. J.A. Wright was a delegate from Western Australia to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Stevie Wright (1947-2015), singer-songwriter, came to Australia from England at the age of nine.
Stevie Wright (1947-2015), singer songwriter, came to Australia from England at the age of nine.
2 portraits in the collection
Judith Wright (1915–2000), poet, conservationist and Aboriginal land rights campaigner, was born at Thalgaroch Station, near Armidale, NSW, into a pastoralist family whose origins go back to the first settlement in the Hunter Valley in the 1820s.
3 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Purchased with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AC 2021
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Barbara Blackman 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gregory McBean writes about photographing recent ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, singer Stevie Wright.