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Hermannsburg Potters, 1999
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Potters' Portrait Pot, 2009
Hermannsburg Potters, Irene Mbitjana Entata, Virginia Mbitjana Rontji, Lindy Panangka Rontji, Rahel Kngwarria Ungwanaka, Rona Panangka Rubuntja, Dawn Ngala Wheeler, Judith Pungarta Inkamala, Anita Ratara Mbitjana, Hayley Panangka Coulthard, Clara Ngala Inkamala
Portrait, fired terracotta clay, underglaze
Commissioned 2009
Esther Erlich
Biography
Esther Erlich (b. 1955), a Melbourne-based painter, has been exhibiting since the early 1980s, often with the Libby Edwards Galleries in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and the Barry Newton Gallery in Adelaide.
3 portraits in the collection
Triceratops
Esther Erlich
Image
Air wear
Magazine article by Esther Agostino, 2015
Aviation carried women’s roles in society to greater heights – fashion followed suit.
The Honourable J.J. Carlton with Cravat, 2000
Esther Erlich
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of an anonymous donor 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Portrait of a lady (Sonia McMahon), 1999
Esther Erlich
Portrait, synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Gift of an anonymous donor 2014
Paul Capsis, 2004
Esther Erlich
Portrait, oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Gift of the artist 2017
Graham Kennedy AO
Biography
Graham Kennedy AO (1934-2005), entertainer, began his career in Melbourne radio in 1949.
2 portraits in the collection
Tom and Pepper, 2014
by Michael Kennedy
Image
Male Domains - The Pub #4, 2006
by Regan Kennedy
Image
Sergeant Michael Kennedy
Biography
A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Graham Kennedy, c. 1962 (printed 2000)
Peter English
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Tony Sattler 2016
Graham Kennedy and the Seekers in Melbourne, c. 1968
Robert Whitaker
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007
The Bushranger Tragedy (from The Australasian Sketcher, 23 November 1878), 1878
an unknown artist, The Australasian Sketcher
Portrait, wood engraving on paper
Purchased 2003
Esther Erlich and Joe
Vox pops
Joe is my grandson, he's the youngest of my son's kids, and the other two have been painted already so I did him.