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Sir Roy Grounds
Biography
Sir Roy Grounds (1905-1981) was one of Australia's leading modernist architects.
2 portraits in the collection
Roy Grounds, 1961
Louis Kahan AO
Portrait, pen and ink on paper
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2006. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Roy Grounds, 1960-1961
Louis Kahan AO
Portrait, pencil on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mrs Lily Kahan 2006
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Around the grounds
Magazine article by Dr Anne Sanders, 2010
Anne Sanders writes about the exhibitions Victoria & Albert: Art & Love on display at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and the retrospective of Sir Thomas Lawrence at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
The Parkes
Beards
It wasn’t uncommon for the pro-beard fraternity of the mid nineteenth century to cite beards as a sign of wisdom on the grounds that Socrates and other ancient philosophers had worn them.
Tarcissius, 2006
by Heide Smith
Image
Bionic Bora
Wayne Quilliam
Image
Trevor Jamieson, 2016 by Brett Canet-Gibson
Image
Maykarran, 2017
by Gutiŋarra Yunupiŋu
General content
Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video using projection
Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa
Biography
Dinny Nolan Tjampitjinpa (b. c. 1944) is a painter and senior custodian for the Warlpiri people.
1 portrait in the collection
Cocky McGrath
About Face article
The long life and few words of a vice-regal cockatoo
Dr Leo Schofield AM
Biography
Leo Schofield AM (b. 1935) has been a significant figure in Australia's cultural life for three decades.
5 portraits in the collection
Lowe Kong Meng
Biography
Lowe Kong Meng (1831–1888), merchant, was born and grew up in the British colony of Penang and came to Melbourne in 1853.
1 portrait in the collection
Mabel Forrest
Biography
Mabel Forrest (née Mills, 1872–1935), writer, was born near Yandilla on the Darling Downs and grew up on various cattle stations in the district, publishing her first poem at age ten.
1 portrait in the collection
Lowe Kong Meng, c. 1887
Ludwig Lang after Johnstone O'Shannessy & Co
Portrait, tinted lithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
John Howard and Janette Howard, 2000
Josonia Palaitis
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds provided by the Founding Patron, L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2000