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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Graeme Drendel, 2016 by Mark Mohell

Graeme Drendel

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I like talking about Drendel’s pictures as if they expressed dreams of my own.

Graeme Blundell (on bike as Alvin Purple)
Graeme Blundell (on bike as Alvin Purple)
Graeme Blundell (on bike as Alvin Purple)

Graeme Blundell (on bike as Alvin Purple), c. 1973

Rennie Ellis
Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

Chester Porter QC
Chester Porter QC
Chester Porter QC

Chester Porter QC, 1997

Graeme Inson
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on board

Gift of Jean Porter and family 2021. Donated through the Australia Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

Self-portrait in black jumper, 2017 Graeme Drendel

Be frank

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2020

Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.

The Hon E.G. Whitlam AC QC
The Hon E.G. Whitlam AC QC
The Hon E.G. Whitlam AC QC

The Hon E.G. Whitlam AC QC, 1980

Graeme Inson
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on masonite

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2002

Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick

Brian Fitzpatrick, 1953

Graeme Inson
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on masonite

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Sheila and David Fitzpatrick in memory of their father 2008

Kevin Weldon
Kevin Weldon
Kevin Weldon

Kevin Weldon, 1978

Graeme Inson
Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Kevin Weldon 2012

Mirror Mirror: Graeme Murphy

Reflections on a Hologram

Magazine article by Sam Bowker, 2005

Sam Bowker examines Paula Dawson's Mirror, Mirror - a holographic portrait of Graeme Murphy.

Navins of Bollywood, 2006 by Navin Rawanchaikul

Navin Rawanchaikul

by Christine Clark
Artist essays

Navin Rawanchaikul has built his practice around explorations of the transient nature of identity in a globalised world, and draws much of his material from his own experiences.

Open your mouth, 2002 by FX Harsono

FX Harsono

by Christine Clark
Artist essays

FX Harsono was born in 1949, just as the independence of the Indonesian nation was being established.

Ang Retabla Rizalista (Relikaryo ni Arnulfo Tikb-ang) 2011 The Rizalian Retablo (Reliquary by Arnulfo Tikb-ang)
by Alwin Reamillo

Alwin Reamillo

by Christine Clark
Artist essays

Alwin Reamillo was born in Manila, Philippines in 1964. He studied painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, and began his career as a visual art teacher at the Philippine High School for the Arts.

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