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Jill Ker Conway AC
Biography
Jill Ker Conway AC (1934-2018), academic, writer and company director, was born in Hillston in western New South Wales and spent her early years on her father's sheep station, Coorain, which was so isolated that she was seven years old before she saw another girl.
1 portrait in the collection
Jill Ker Conway, 1987
Sarah Belchetz-Swenson
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of an anonymous donor 2001
Jim Conway
Biography
Jim Conway, harmonica player, composer and music producer, grew up in Melbourne and attended Camberwell High School before beginning his career with the frenetic jug outfit, the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, in the 1970s.
1 portrait in the collection
Jim Conway, 2006
Greg Warburton
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint and charcoal on paper laid on board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2009
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
William Robertson junior, c. 1857
Conway Hart
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Dorland Bray and Deborah Conway, Do-Re-Mi. Sydney c.1985
Stuart Spence
Image
Dr Jill Orr
Biography
Dr Jill Orr (born 1952) is a Melbourne-born contemporary artist, whose performance-based practice has continued to interrogate the environmental concerns since the 1970s.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Blue light hypnosis
Jill Velinos
Image
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
Portrait of Jill, 2021
Graeme Drendel
Portrait, oil on board
Gift of the artist 2023
Portrait of Jill Neville, 1967 (completed 1997)
Reginald Gray
Portrait, oil and egg tempera on canvas
Gift of the artist 2002
Neville and Jill Wran - as the Duke and Duchess of Sydney (with apologies to Piero della Francesca), 1983
Frank Hodgkinson
Portrait, oil on canvas (diptych)
Gift of Mrs Kate Hodgkinson 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Who’s that lady?, 2014
by Ferne Millen
Image
Sir Roderick Carnegie AC
Biography
Sir Roderick Carnegie (1933-2024) was the former chief executive, chairman and managing director of CRA Limited and chairman of Hudson Conway Limited, Adacel Technologies Limited and World Competitive Practices Pty Ltd.
1 portrait in the collection
First Australian first-class cricket team
Biography
The ‘first Australian first-class cricket team to tour England and North America’ was in fact the second Australian cricket side to contest matches internationally (a team of Indigenous players having done so in 1868), but it is considered the first official national representative team to tour overseas.
1 portrait in the collection