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
Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2010
Photographer Ricky Maynard talks us through the creation of the portrait commission of Mick Dodson.
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Bart Willoughby (b. 1960) is a Pitjantjantjara and Mirning singer/songwriter who is one of the Stolen Generations.
2 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2005
Magda Keaney examines the 123 Faces project by Simon Obarzanek.
Gift of the artist 2004
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Contemporary Australian Portraits is a cross section, a sampling, of some of the present-day directions in Australian portrait practice
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2012
Christopher Chapman profiles Chris Lilley, actor and creator of Angry Boys.
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.
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.