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Dr Jill Orr
Biography
Dr Jill Orr (born 1952) is a Melbourne-born contemporary artist, whose performance-based practice has continued to interrogate the environmental concerns since the 1970s.
1 portrait in the collection
Jill Neville
Biography
Jill Neville (1932–1997), writer and critic, grew up in Sydney and attended a Blue Mountains boarding school.
1 portrait in the collection
Jill Ker Conway AC
Biography
Jill Ker Conway AC (1934-2018), academic, writer and company director, was born in Hillston in western New South Wales and spent her early years on her father's sheep station, Coorain, which was so isolated that she was seven years old before she saw another girl.
1 portrait in the collection
Blue light hypnosis
Jill Velinos
Image
Jill Hickson Wran AM
Biography
Jill Hickson Wran AM (b. 1948) graduated from the University of Sydney and then worked for Qantas.
1 portrait in the collection
Portrait of Jill, 2021
Graeme Drendel
Portrait, oil on board
Gift of the artist 2023
Portrait of Jill Neville, 1967 (completed 1997)
Reginald Gray
Portrait, oil and egg tempera on canvas
Gift of the artist 2002
Jill Ker Conway, 1987
Sarah Belchetz-Swenson
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of an anonymous donor 2001
Neville and Jill Wran - as the Duke and Duchess of Sydney (with apologies to Piero della Francesca), 1983
Frank Hodgkinson
Portrait, oil on canvas (diptych)
Gift of Mrs Kate Hodgkinson 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Who’s that lady?, 2014
by Ferne Millen
Image
Tom Goldner
Vox pops
The portrait's of my mother, Catherine, and the photograph was taken in a family home that we had and my mother was relocating to Tasmania.
Frank Lowy AC
Biography
Sir Frank Lowy AC (b. 1930) businessman, property developer and philanthropist, founded the Westfield group of shopping centres.
2 portraits in the collection
Headspace 1
Previous exhibition, 2000
Headspace showcases portrait art produced by secondary students from Year 7 to Year 12 in Government, Catholic and Independent schools in Canberra and its surrounding regions extending to Wollongong, Deniliquin, Leeton, Crookwell, Bombala, Narooma and Albury
Headspace 7
Me and My Place
Previous exhibition, 2006
Headspace 7: Me and My Place, the seventh in the National Portrait Gallery's series of student exhibitions, will be presented at Commonwealth Place. Me and My Place is the curatorial theme for the 2006 exhibition.
2020 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.
Blow Back, 2018
Julie Rrap
Portrait, pigment photographic prints on paper, hand ground glass
Gift of the artist 2024. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.