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Peter Wright, 1999
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The activist A-list
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2007
Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.
Hon. J A. Wright MLC
Biography
The Hon. J.A. Wright was a delegate from Western Australia to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney, 1891.
1 portrait in the collection
Tribute
Stevie Wright
Magazine article, 2016
Stevie Wright (1947-2015), singer-songwriter, came to Australia from England at the age of nine.
Stevie Wright
Biography
Stevie Wright (1947-2015), singer songwriter, came to Australia from England at the age of nine.
2 portraits in the collection
Judith Wright
Biography
Judith Wright (1915–2000), poet, conservationist and Aboriginal land rights campaigner, was born at Thalgaroch Station, near Armidale, NSW, into a pastoralist family whose origins go back to the first settlement in the Hunter Valley in the 1820s.
3 portraits in the collection
Alexis Wright
Biography
Alexis Wright (b. 1950), author and activist, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria and the 2018 Stella Prize for her collective memoir Tracker.
1 portrait in the collection
Stevie Wright, 1975 (printed 2011)
Gary Ede
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Stevie Wright, London
Gary Ede
Image
Judith Wright, 1988 (printed 2021)
Jacqueline Mitelman
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Purchased with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AC 2021
Stevie Wright, 2003 (printed 2005)
Gregory McBean
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Alexis Wright, 2009
by Ingvar Kenne
Image
Alexis Wright, 2009 (printed 2014)
Ingvar Kenne
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Jamie Wright, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
The family, c. 1955
Charles Blackman OBE
Portrait, oil on board
Gift of Barbara Blackman 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Stevie
Magazine article by Gregory McBean, 2005
Gregory McBean writes about photographing recent ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, singer Stevie Wright.