Patrick Dodson (b. 1948), Indigenous advocate and senator for Western Australia, is a Yawaru man who was born in Broome but spent most of his childhood and early schooling in the Northern Territory.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of the Lingiari Foundation 2015
Michael (Mick) Dodson AM (b. 1950) is a Yawuru man from the southern Kimberley in Western Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2010
Photographer Ricky Maynard talks us through the creation of the portrait commission of Mick Dodson.
Patrick White (1912–1990), acknowledged as Australia’s pre-eminent novelist of the 20th century, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973 for The Eye of the Storm, ‘for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature’.
7 portraits in the collection
Patrick Dawson is believed to have been trained as a surveyor and learnt photography while surveying in Victoria in the 1850s.
1 portrait in the collection
Patrick Corrigan AM (b. 1932), businessman, art collector and arts patron, was born in Hanghow (Hankou) in China.
3 portraits in the collection
Patrick Ryan (d. 1990) and Tim Burstall set up Eltham Films in the early 1950s, when the local film industry was moribund.
1 portrait in the collection
Patrick McGorry (b.1952), psychiatrist and Professor of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, gained his initial medical degree at the University of Sydney and worked in the United Kingdom and Newcastle, New South Wales, before completing his doctorate in medicine at Monash University in 1991.
1 portrait in the collection
Patrick Olodoodi Tjungurrayi (c. 1935-2017), Kukatja/Pintupi painter, was born at Yalangerri near Jupiter Well.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), orphaned at 11, was sent from his native Ireland to Rome, where a relative was rector of the Irish College.
2 portraits in the collection
An interview with photographer William Yang who recalls his encounters with the author Patrick White.
