Jessica Mauboy (b. 1989), Darwin-born singer, songwriter and actor, is a descendant of the KuKu Yalanji nation of Far North Queensland.
1 portrait in the collection
Recorded 2018
Commissioned with funds provided by Sony Music Entertainment Australia 2018
Singer, songwriter and actress Jessica Mauboy with artist David Rosetzky.
Jessica Hromas is a Sydney-based freelance photographer specialising in portraiture, corporate photography, photojournalism and arts coverage.
2 portraits in the collection
Jessica Smith looks at the 'fetching' portrait of Tasmania's first Anglican Bishop, Francis Russell Nixon by George Richmond
Purchased 2022
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Hammond Care Group 1999
Jessica Bolton navigates the parallel tracks documenting Robyn Davidson’s astonishing journey.
Commissioned with funds provided by Sony Music Entertainment Australia 2018
An interview with Jessica Hromas, Finalist in the Living Memory National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Revealing the backstories behind the NPG collection, Before hand features interviews with artists and sitters as well as working drawings, scrapbooks, sketches and footage taken in artists’ studios and out on location.
From Mauboy to Blanchett, Teo to Bradman, Namatjira to Winton – these mini-movies showcase the creative collaboration between portrait artists and their subjects.
The Art Handlers' Award for 2021 went to Kristina Kraskov for I'm just a suburban fashionista.