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Imatjala Curley, 2021
Robert Fielding
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2022
Laurie Carmichael
Biography
Laurie Carmichael (1925-2018), union leader, left school at 14 to take up a fitting and turning apprenticeship, and after service in the RAF joined the Amalgamated Engineering Union.
2 portraits in the collection
Laurie Carmichael, 1981 (printed 2018)
Gary Ede
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased 2018
Mr Laurie Carmichael, 1973
Frank Hinder
Portrait, fibre-tipped pen, wash on paper
Gift of HOTA (Home of the Arts), Gold Coast 2019 with the encouragement of Patrick Corrigan AM
Laurie Chow, engineer, Glebe Island Bridge, Sydney, 1995 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.
Study for self portrait, c. 1965
Jean Appleton
Portrait, oil on masonite
Gift of Laurie Curley OAM and Mrs Robyn Curley 2012
Nancy Borlase and Laurie Short, 1991
Jenny Sages
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the Margaret Olley Art Trust 1998
Pat Mackie, 2004
Nancy Borlase AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased 2004
Eleanor Constance Gude
Biography
Eleanor Constance 'Nornie' Gude (1915–2002) was born in Ballarat and was fifteen when she was accepted to study painting at the Ballarat Technical Art School.
1 portrait in the collection
Double Portrait: Vida and Marie Breckenridge (study), 1999
Nancy Borlase AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Marie Breckenridge 2004
2022 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.
Nancy Borlase AM
Biography
Nancy Borlase AM (1914–2006), painter and writer, was born in New Zealand, and had to be dug out of the wreckage when an earthquake struck Napier in late 1931.
4 portraits in the collection
Jenny Sages
Biography
Jenny Sages (b. 1933), artist, was born to Russian Jewish parents in Shanghai and came to Australia with her family in 1948.
34 portraits in the collection
The Winner of the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 is...
2 December 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The winner of the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 has been announced. Congratulations to Amiel Courtin-Wilson for his submission titled Charles.
James McClelland, 1946
Nancy Borlase AM
Portrait, oil on composition board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gillian Appleton (McClelland) 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
In good company
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2015
Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.