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Kunmanara (Ngilan) Dodd, 2021
Robert Fielding
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2022
Kunmanara (Tiger) Yaltangki, 2021
Robert Fielding
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2022
Robert Dodd
Biography
Robert Dodd, a leading painter of maritime and military subjects, lived and worked in Wapping, London.
2 portraits in the collection
Margaret Dodd, 2002
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Sammy Dodd, 2021
Robert Fielding
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2022
Part of the crew of His Majesty's Ship Guardian endeavouring to escape in the boats, 1790
Robert Dodd
Portrait, aquatint on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
The Mutineers turning Lieut Bligh and part of the Officers and Crew adrift from His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, 1790
Robert Dodd, B B. Evans
Portrait, aquatint engraving on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Ian Potter Foundation 2008
2022 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.
South-bound and down
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2013
Joanna Gilmour recounts the story of ill-fated sea voyages in the early stages of the Antipodean colony.
High & Bligh
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2008
Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.
Unpacked
Magazine article by Rebecca Ray, 2022
Rebecca Ray reflects on Robert Fielding’s Mayatjara series, honouring songlines and intergenerational knowedge.
Portrait of Captain Edward Riou, 1801
James Heath after Samuel Shelley
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Technical terminology
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2010
Michael Desmond introduces some of the ideas behind the exhibition Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age.