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Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue AC CBE DSG
Biography
Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG (1932–2024), a Yankunytjatjara woman, dedicated her life’s work to advancing the rights and wellbeing of Australia’s First Peoples.
2 portraits in the collection
Lowitja O’Donoghue
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 2015
Lowitja O'Donoghue, 2006
Robert Hannaford AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Commissioned with funds donated by BHP Billiton Limited, Rio Tinto Aboriginal Fund, Newmont Australia Limited, Reconciliation Australia, Hon Paul Keating and Hon Fred Chaney 2006
Little joys, 2008
by Chris Mangan
Image
Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) and Lowitja O’Donoghue at the opening of the inaugural National Aboriginal Conference, Canberra, 1978 (printed 2014)
Mervyn Bishop
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Resilience
Indigenous leadership
General content
Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Neville Bonner, Lowitja O'Donoghue, Mandawuy Yunupingu and Adam Goodes
Robert Hannaford AM
Biography
Robert Hannaford AM (b. 1944), a largely self-taught artist, grew up on his family farm near the small South Australian town of Riverton before working as political cartoonist for the Adelaide Advertiser from 1964 to 1967.
6 portraits in the collection
Awesome Achievers
A cross-curriculum learning resource
Learning resource archive
What makes someone awesome? And how does a portrait tell a person's story? Bring your students up close and personal with some great Australians. For upper primary school students.
Anatomist's eye
Magazine article by Diana Warnes, 2016
Robert Hannaford has completed around 400 portraits over the span of his career.
The hands have it
Magazine article by Angus Trumble, 2016
Angus Trumble treats the gallery’s collection with a dab hand.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009
Previous exhibition, 2009
In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.
An Australian story
Magazine article by The Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd, 2009
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
The considered life
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2010
Andrew Sayers asks whether a portrait can truly be the examination of a life.
History
About us
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
Shiny, happy people
Magazine article by Glynis Jones, 2022
Glynis Jones on the Powerhouse’s retrospective of one of Australia’s foremost fashion reportage and social photographers.