Purchased 2019
John Clarke (1948-2017), satirist and humourist, moved to Australia in the 1970s from New Zealand, where he had begun performing in university revues and was named Entertainer of the Year in 1976.
3 portraits in the collection
Peter Russell-Clarke, cook, started his career as a freelance cartoonist, working for advertising agencies in Australia and overseas.
1 portrait in the collection
Sarah-Jane 'Sass' Clarke AM (b. 1974) and Heidi 'Bide' Middleton AM (b.
1 portrait in the collection
Peter Russell-Clarke on colour in painting and cooking.
Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Recorded 2022
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
Angus Trumble pays tribute to John Clarke.
Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.
Purchased 2001
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2008
Purchased 2003
