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Patrick Ryan
Biography
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
Portrait of Patrick Ryan, 1971
Fred Williams
Portrait, gouache on paper laid on board
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2012
Ryan Presley
In conversation
Magazine article by April Phillips, 2024
April Phillips (Wiradjuri-Scottish, kalari/galari) yarns with Marri Ngarr artist Ryan Presley about portraiture, resilience and the spirit held within fire.
Patrick White
Biography
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
Biography
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 Dodson
Biography
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
Patrick Corrigan AM
Biography
Patrick Corrigan AM (b. 1932), businessman, art collector and arts patron, was born in Hanghow (Hankou) in China.
3 portraits in the collection
Patrick McGorry
Biography
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
The gin soaked effervescence of Libby and Maeve, 2016
by Patrick Boland
Image
Patrick Olodoodi Tjungurrayi
Biography
Patrick Olodoodi Tjungurrayi (c. 1935-2017), Kukatja/Pintupi painter, was born at Yalangerri near Jupiter Well.
1 portrait in the collection
Patrick White, 1987
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Timothy Fairfax AC 2003
Patrick Francis Moran
Biography
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
The Brontë Sisters (Anne Brontë; Emily Brontë; Charlotte Brontë)
Patrick Branwell Brontë
Image
Patrick White by William Yang
Portrait story
An interview with photographer William Yang who recalls his encounters with the author Patrick White.
Patrick Corrigan, 2006
Paul Newton
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2007
Patrick White with Tom Jones, 1956
Axel Poignant
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003