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Maggie Beer AO
Biography
Maggie Beer AO (b. 1945) is a cook, restaurateur, businesswoman and media personality.
1 portrait in the collection
Maggie, 2023
Del Kathryn Barton
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint and pigment liner on French linen
Commissioned with funds provided by Hayley Baillie and James Baillie 2023
Maggie Tabberer AO
Biography
Maggie Tabberer AO (b. 1936), designer, writer, editor, publicist and television presenter, is one of Australia's best-known personalities.
1 portrait in the collection
Maggie Tabberer, 2015
Alana Landsberry
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of Alana Landsberry and Bauer Media Australia 2019
In Conversation
Maggie Beer AO and Del Kathryn Barton
Watch
Join us with Maggie Beer AO, cook restaurateur and businesswoman and Del Kathryn Barton, artist, in celebration of the National Portrait Gallery's most recent commissioned portrait, Maggie, 2023 by Del Kathryn Barton.
Maggie Beer
In Gallery One
Previous exhibition, 2023
Our most recent commission, the portrait of Maggie Beer by Del Kathryn Barton both combines a statuesque almost devotional likeness with a spell-binding and dream-like personalised symbology of the sitter.
Junior Maggie, 2009
by Warwick Baker
Image
Simon Griffiths
Biography
Simon Griffiths has been acclaimed in numerous publications as Australia's leading food and garden photographer.
1 portrait in the collection
Cheong Liew OAM
Biography
Cheong Liew - whom the US magazine Food and Wine recently named one of the 10 'hottest chefs alive' - learnt the basics of cooking in his native Malaysia, in the Kuala Lumpur kitchen of his grandmother.
1 portrait in the collection
Portrait 70
Magazine
Kim Leutwyler on her portraits of the LGBTQIA+ community, Oliver Giles chats to Polly Borland, Gunggandji artist Simone Arnol, and Andrew Quilty's new book.
Michael Boddy
Biography
Michael Boddy (1934–2014), writer and actor, was born in England and educated at Cambridge before arriving in Australia as a 'ten quid migrant' in 1960.
2 portraits in the collection
Mike Low
Aaron Puls
Image
Claude Spurgeon Charlick
Biography
Claude Spurgeon Charlick (1893-1974), businessman, was managing director of the Adelaide firm Charlick Ltd for nearly forty years.
1 portrait in the collection
Alan Bond
Biography
Born in London, Alan Bond (1938–2015) emigrated with his family in 1950 and began his working life as a signwriter.
2 portraits in the collection
Alan Bond, 1985
Rennie Ellis
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2006
The Hoff
Moustaches
The image of a hairy swag-wielding bushman might be one popularly associated with Australia in the late nineteenth century.