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The Huxleys
'Things are changing, which is really beautiful'
Portrait story
Will and Garrett on creating their costumes and being unconstrained in art and performance.
Smalltown Boy (Surfers Paradise), 2018
The Huxleys
Portrait, gilcée print on paper
Purchased 2021
Smalltown Boy (Perth), 2018
The Huxleys
Portrait, gilcée print on paper
Purchased 2021
Style Over Substance, 2020
The Huxleys
Portrait, single channel moving image, 16:9, colour, sound, 6 minutes and 46 seconds
Purchased 2021
Will Huxley
Biography
Will Huxley (b. 1982) was born in Bath, England, emigrating with his family at the age of seven to grow up in the suburbs of Perth.
3 portraits in the collection
Garrett Huxley
Biography
Garrett Huxley (b. 1973) was born in Melbourne and raised on the Gold Coast.
3 portraits in the collection
Thomas Henry Huxley
Biography
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) travelled to Australia as a member of the expedition conducted by Owen Stanley on the Rattlesnake between 1846 and 1850.
2 portraits in the collection
Thomas Henry Huxley, c. 1870
Maull & Co Photographers
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Men of the Day No.19 "A great Med'cine-Man among the Inqui-ring Redskins" (Thomas Henry Huxley), 1871
Carlo Pellegrini, Vanity Fair Magazine
Portrait, chromolithograph on paper
Purchased 2015
Where Have All The Flowers Gone
The Huxleys
Image
The Huxleys
Biography
Will Huxley grew up in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, and Garrett Huxley was raised on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
3 portraits in the collection
Stella Bowen
Biography
Stella Bowen, painter and writer, grew up in Adelaide, where she studied with Margaret Preston.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Darwin
John Collier
Image
Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS
Biography
Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS FAA (1903-1997), neuroscientist, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1963 for his discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in excitation and inhibition in the peripheral and central portions of the nerve cell membrane.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Richard Owens
Biography
Sir Richard Owen (1804–1892), naturalist, anatomist and palaeontologist, was born in Lancaster and apprenticed to surgeon-apothecaries there before completing his studies in medicine in Edinburgh and London.
1 portrait in the collection
Brains trust
About Face article
Eminent doctors and scientists have for more than a century consistently caused our nation to punch far above her weight.