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Nyurpaya Kaika Burton OAM, 2021
Robert Fielding
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2022
John Burton
Biography
John Burton (1915-2010), public servant, author and academic, was educated in Sydney and at the London School of Economics, where he gained his doctorate on a Public Service Scholarship in 1942.
1 portrait in the collection
In the shower, 2006
by Jane Burton
Image
DJ Lady Erica, 2019
Sean Burton
Image
John Burton, 1951
an unknown artist
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Mr and Mrs John Burton 2007
Maringka Burton, 2021
Robert Fielding
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2022
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.
Sir James Dowling
Biography
Sir James Dowling (1787-1844), judge, worked as a parliamentary reporter before he was called to the Bar in London in May 1815.
1 portrait in the collection
Noah Taylor
Biography
Noah Taylor (b. 1969) left school at 16 to join Melbourne's St Martin's Youth Theatre.
1 portrait in the collection
Nyangatja Ngayuku Mara (These are my hands)
Rhett Hammerton
Image
Noah Taylor, 1994 (printed 2010)
Ross Honeysett
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Person and Place
General content
The connection between land and identity holds great significance in Australia. While for First Nations people, person and place are intertwined both culturally and spiritually, forming an intrinsic union between Country and self, stories of colonisation and migration are also deeply bound to this nation.
Howard Arkley
Biography
Howard Arkley (1951-1999) was born, died, and spent the majority of his life in Melbourne, where he studied at Prahran CAE and Melbourne State College between 1969 and 1973.
3 portraits in the collection
Winners announced: Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015
27 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The winners of the Macquarie Digital Portraiture Awards will be announced tomorrow morning at 10.00am at the National Portrait Gallery.
Full time
Magazine article by Alistair McGhie, 2017
Alistair McGhie reminisces about three Australian rugby greats commissioned for the Portrait Gallery collection by Patrick Corrigan AM.
Henry Baynton Somer Gullett AM MC
Biography
Henry Baynton Somer ‘Jo’ Gullett AM MC (1914-1999), soldier, politician, ambassador, farmer and author, was the son of Sir Henry Gullett, who was one of the Australian official historians of the First World War.
1 portrait in the collection