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Jon Muir OAM
Biography
Jon Muir OAM (b. 1961) is an adventurer and sustainability advocate. Raised in Wollongong, he started climbing full-time as a teenager.
1 portrait in the collection
Roam alone
About Face article
Jon Muir, adventurer and Portrait Gallery Collection subject, really knows about isolation.
Jon (Jon Muir), 2008
Ian Darling AO
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Gift of the artist 2010
Jon Muir and Ian Darling
'My favourite place to be'
Portrait story
Filmmaker Ian Darling talks with adventurer Jon Muir about crossing the vast salt lakes of central Australia.
Thomas Muir
Biography
Thomas Muir (1765-1799), lawyer, political activist and political convict, began studies at the University of Glasgow at the age of twelve.
2 portraits in the collection
Thomas Muir of Huntershill, 1838
John Kay
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Thomas Muir, 1800
François Bonneville
Portrait, copper-line engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Shifting the definition
Nearest & Dearest
Defiant commitment
Ian Darling AO
Biography
Ian Darling AO is an award winning documentary filmmaker. He has made two films about adventurer and explorer Jon Muir; Alone Across Australia and Suzy & The Simple Man.
1 portrait in the collection
Alternative virtue
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2015
Joanna Gilmour presents John Kay’s portraits of a more infamous side of Edinburgh.
George Mealmaker
Biography
George Mealmaker (1768–1808), convict and activist, became involved in radical politics in his native Dundee in the 1780s.
1 portrait in the collection
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009
Previous exhibition, 2009
In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.
NPPP 2009 exhibition essay
General content
Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2009 Prize.
Sideshow Alley
Infamy, the macabre & the portrait
Previous exhibition, 2015
Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.