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Storied portrait
About Face article
Emily Casey takes in Shirley Purdie’s remarkable self-portrait, Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe.
Casey Stoner AM
Biography
Casey Stoner (b. 1985), the 2008 Young Australian of the Year, won the MotoGP World Championship motorcycle competition held at Phillip Island in 2007.
1 portrait in the collection
Ella in Callala Bay, 2018
by Aletheia Casey
Image
Sayeh: from the series Iranians, 2011
by Aletheia Casey
Image
Ethel Marian (Maie) Casey AC
Biography
Ethel Marian (Maie) Casey AC, Baroness Casey (1892-1983), chatelaine, artist, pilot and author, was born in Melbourne, the daughter of the Surgeon General, Sir Charles Ryan.
1 portrait in the collection
Richard Gardiner Casey KG GCMG CH
Biography
Richard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey of Berwick, Victoria and the City of Westminster KG GCMG CH (1890-1976), politician and statesman, was born in Brisbane and educated in Melbourne and at Cambridge.
3 portraits in the collection
Automatic for the people: Casey Stoner, 2008
Scott Redford
Portrait, Laser-cut vinyl and computer print on aluminium composite sheet, painted custom-wood frame
Commissioned with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2008
Ethel Marian (Maie) Casey
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1967
Lord Casey, n.d.
Louis Kahan AO
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1998
Lord Casey, c. 1932
Charles Wheeler
Portrait, conté, brush and ink on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2003
Maie Casey, 1953
an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2016
Speed demon
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2009
Scott Redford discusses his dynamic portrait commission of motorcycling champion and 2008 Young Australian of the Year Casey Stoner.
Lord Casey, 1938
Gordon Furlee Brown
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Me and My Place
Emily Ma
Image
Emily Fairfax
Biography
Emily Ross (née Fairfax) (1832-1871) was the eldest child of newspaper publisher John Fairfax - who founded the Fairfax news dynasty in Sydney in 1841 - and his wife Sarah.
1 portrait in the collection
Emily S. Wills
Biography
Emily Spencer Wills (1842–1925), Cedric Spencer Wills (1844–1914), Horace Spencer Wills (1847–1928), and Egbert Spencer Wills (1849–1931) the second, third, fourth, and fifth children of Horatio Wills and his wife Elizabeth, were all born at Lexington, spending their childhoods there and at Bellevue, the property acquired by Horatio Wills near Geelong in 1852.
1 portrait in the collection