Philip Gudthaykudthay (b. 1935) Liyagalawumirr (Yolgnu) bark painter, worked as a young man as a stockman, fencer and crocodile hunter around Milingimbi and Ramingining.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2005
Phillip Law AC AO CBE (1912–2010), scientist and Antarctic explorer, developed an interest in the frozen continent as a boy.
1 portrait in the collection
Arthur Phillip (1738–1814), first governor of New South Wales, began his career while a boy in London.
2 portraits in the collection
Phillip Noyce AO (b. 1950), director, was part of the first student intake at the Australian Film and Television School in 1973.
2 portraits in the collection
Maria Kozic (b. 1957), painter and sculptor, and Philip Brophy (b. 1959), film director, composer, performer and curator, collaborated in the avant-garde performance/happening group ??? (spoken as tsk tsk tsk) and other projects between 1977 and the mid-1980s.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of Dr Phillip Law 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Phillip Parker King RN (1791–1856) has been described as the first Australian-born person to succeed in the world outside the colonies.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2005
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
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Purchased 2000
In recent years I have become fascinated by the so-called Sydney Cove Medallion (1789), a work of art that bridges the 10,000-mile gap between the newly established penal settlement at Port Jackson and the beating heart of Enlightenment England.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014