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'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, page 1
Unknown artist Publisher Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
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'The Australian Cricketers' from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News June 1882, 1882
an unknown artist, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
Portrait, engravings on paper
Purchased 2009
Peter Garrett AM
Biography
Peter Garrett AM (b. 1953), musician, environmental and social activist, and former politician, is the lead singer of the band Midnight Oil, which originated in Sydney's northern beaches in the mid-1970s.
12 portraits in the collection
Garrett Huxley
Biography
Garrett Huxley (b. 1973) was born in Melbourne and raised on the Gold Coast.
3 portraits in the collection
Test #5 Garrett in landscape: Preparatory study for 'Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground', 2001
eX de Medici
Portrait, watercolour, gouache, mangrove bark pigment with alum on vellum
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Peter Garrett, 1999
Karin Catt
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Peter Garrett, Midnight Oil
Bob King
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Peter Garrett, Midnight Oil
Bob King
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Seduce and Destroy
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2001
Magda Keaney explores the symbolism in eX de Medici's portrait of Midnight Oil.
Elegance in exile
Portrait drawings from colonial Australia
Previous exhibition, 2012
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa, c. 1847
an unknown artist, Thomas Wharton
Portrait, daguerreotype in a pinchbeck case
Purchased 2001
The Bushranger Tragedy (from The Australasian Sketcher, 23 November 1878), 1878
an unknown artist, The Australasian Sketcher
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2003
N.T. Ranger Uranium: Preparatory study for 'Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground', 2001
eX de Medici
Portrait, pencil on paper
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground, 2001
eX de Medici
Portrait, mangrove bark pigment, watercolour and gouache on vellum
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Head studies: Preparatory study for 'Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground', 2001
eX de Medici
Portrait, pencil on paper
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Test #4 Broadhead and Wing Pattern: Preparatory study for 'Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground', 2001
eX de Medici
Portrait, watercolour, gouache, mangrove bark dye with alum on vellum
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001