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Kitty Kantilla (Kutuwulumi Purawarrumpatu)
Biography
Kitty Kantilla (Kutuwulumi Purawarrumpatu) (c. 1928–2003) was the most acclaimed Tiwi artist of her generation.
1 portrait in the collection
Kitty Kantilla and Freda Warlapinni at Milikapiti (Snake Bay), 2003
Jo Bertini
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2004
Eye line
Magazine article by Jo Bertini, 2004
Jo Bertini describes the evolution of her portrait of artists and friends Kitty Kantilla and Freda Warlapinni.
The Aboriginal community of Lake Tyers, Gippsland, c. 1890
an unknown artist
Portrait, albumen silver photograph on paper on card
Purchased 2010
Jo Bertini
Biography
Jo Bertini (b. 1964) is a Sydney painter, art educator, lecturer and writer.
2 portraits in the collection
Why portraiture?
Magazine article by Blak Douglas, 2023
Blak Douglas reflects on his experiences, process and motivation for making portraits.
Animated
Self Portraits Online
Previous exhibition, 2008
Animated is the National Portrait Gallery's first online exhibition.
The portrait writ large
Magazine article by Karen Vickery, 2015
Karen Vickery on Chang the Chinese giant in Australia.
The personal and the historical
About Face article
Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.