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Ricky Maynard
Biography
Ricky Maynard (b. 1953) is an Indigenous Tasmanian photographer. He is best known for his Tasmanian photographic essays The Moonbird People (1985–1988) and Portrait of a Distant Land (2005), made while he was living and working on Flinders Island in the Bass Strait.
1 portrait in the collection
Mick Dodson, 2010
Ricky Maynard
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2010
Indomitable spirit
Magazine article by Ricky Maynard, 2010
Photographer Ricky Maynard talks us through the creation of the portrait commission of Mick Dodson.
Determined, 2008
by David Anderson
Image
No Fixed Address from 'Rock Against Racism' concert, Redfern, 1980
Juno Gemes
Portrait, sepia toned strip proof on paper
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Tiga Bayles with No Fixed Address at the People for Nuclear Disarmament rally on Palm Sunday, 27 March 1983, 1983
Juno Gemes
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
123 Faces
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2002
Magda Keaney examines the 123 Faces project by Simon Obarzanek.
Contemporary Australian Portraits
Previous exhibition, 2002
Contemporary Australian Portraits is a cross section, a sampling, of some of the present-day directions in Australian portrait practice
Moonbird boy, 2009
by Matthew Newton
Image
Bart Willoughby
Biography
Bart Willoughby (b. 1960) is a Pitjantjantjara and Mirning singer/songwriter who is one of the Stolen Generations.
2 portraits in the collection
Activating the space
Magazine article by Sandra Phillips, 2020
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Bart Willoughby, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2004
Bart Willoughby (No Fixed Address) at 'The National Land Rights Action' march, 1982
Juno Gemes
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The existential lens
Magazine article by Stephen Zagala, 2013
Stephen Zagala discusses Richard Avedon’s work from an Australian perspective.
Eric Bana, 2006 (printed 2012)
Andrew Maccoll
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2012
How to be a boy
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2011
Christopher Chapman profiles Chris Lilley, actor and creator of Angry Boys.