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Judith Wright
Biography
Judith Wright (1915–2000), poet, conservationist and Aboriginal land rights campaigner, was born at Thalgaroch Station, near Armidale, NSW, into a pastoralist family whose origins go back to the first settlement in the Hunter Valley in the 1820s.
3 portraits in the collection
Judith Wright, 1988 (printed 2021)
Jacqueline Mitelman
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AC 2021
The family, c. 1955
Charles Blackman OBE
Portrait, oil on board
Gift of Barbara Blackman 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
All in the Family
Magazine article by Barbara Blackman AO, 2003
In 2000, Barbara Blackman donated a portrait of her close friends - poet Judith Wright, her husband Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith - painted by Charles Blackman.
The Family
by Charles Blackman
Portrait story
Meredith McKinney, subject of Charles Blackman's 'The Family', recounts memories from her childhood and the creation of the portrait.
Big bouquet of Blackmans
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2013
Dr. Sarah Engledow explores the context surrounding Charles Blackman's portrait of Judith Wright, Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith.
The activist A-list
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2007
Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.
Judith Wright with Barbara Blackman, c. 1956
Charles Blackman OBE
Portrait, oil on paper laid down on board
Gift of Joanna McNiven 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Judith Durham AO
Biography
The Seekers formed in Melbourne in 1962 when jazz singer Judith Durham met Athol Guy, who was in a folk trio with Bruce Woodley and Keith Potger.
3 portraits in the collection
Judith O'Conal-Prinz
Biography
Judith O’Conal grew up in Sydney’s Rocks area and became interested in art as she repeatedly passed the plaque advertising the Julian Ashton School.
1 portrait in the collection
Judith Pungarta Inkamala
Biography
Judith Pungarta Inkamala (b. 1947), senior potter, is an Arrernte woman who was born in Hermannsburg, 130 km west of Alice Springs.
3 portraits in the collection
Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE
Biography
Dame Judith Anderson AC DBE (1897–1992) was an Adelaide-born stage and film actress well known for her role as the sinister Mrs Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca (1940).
1 portrait in the collection
Dame Judith Anderson, 1962
Don Bachardy
Portrait, pen and ink and drybrush on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999
Judith Inkamala, 1999
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The Hon Lionel Murphy, 1978
Judith O'Conal-Prinz
Portrait, oil on board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Lionel Murphy Foundation 2012
Hon. J A. Wright MLC
Biography
The Hon. J.A. Wright was a delegate from Western Australia to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.
1 portrait in the collection