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The Huxleys
'Things are changing, which is really beautiful'
Portrait story
Will and Garrett on creating their costumes and being unconstrained in art and performance.
Garrett Huxley
Biography
Garrett Huxley (b. 1973) was born in Melbourne and raised on the Gold Coast.
3 portraits in the collection
Style Over Substance, 2020
The Huxleys
Portrait, single channel moving image, 16:9, colour, sound, 6 minutes and 46 seconds
Purchased 2021
Smalltown Boy (Surfers Paradise), 2018
The Huxleys
Portrait, gilcée print on paper
Purchased 2021
Smalltown Boy (Perth), 2018
The Huxleys
Portrait, gilcée print on paper
Purchased 2021
Will Huxley
Biography
Will Huxley (b. 1982) was born in Bath, England, emigrating with his family at the age of seven to grow up in the suburbs of Perth.
3 portraits in the collection
Thomas Henry Huxley
Biography
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) travelled to Australia as a member of the expedition conducted by Owen Stanley on the Rattlesnake between 1846 and 1850.
2 portraits in the collection
Thomas Henry Huxley, c. 1870
Maull & Co Photographers
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Men of the Day No.19 "A great Med'cine-Man among the Inqui-ring Redskins" (Thomas Henry Huxley), 1871
Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
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
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
Image
Peter Garrett, Midnight Oil
Bob King
Image
Seduce and Destroy
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2001
Magda Keaney explores the symbolism in eX de Medici's portrait of Midnight Oil.
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