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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Gordon Andrews at Lovett Bay NSW

Gordon Andrews

Biography

Gordon Andrews (1914-2001) was one of Australia's foremost industrial designers.

3 portraits in the collection

Bon Scott & Angus Young, Atlanta, Georgia

Bon Scott

Biography

Ronald 'Bon' Scott (1946-1980) had come to Australia with his family in 1952, aged six, had lived in Melbourne and Fremantle, where he joined a pipe band; had dropped out of school at fifteen; and had spent some time in custody.

1 portrait in the collection

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Roger Scott

Biography

Roger Scott (b. 1944) is a freelance documentary photographer known in particular for his images of protests and rallies held in Sydney in the 1970s.

2 portraits in the collection

Delores

Dolores Scott

Biography

When Michael Riley photographed Dolores Scott in the 1980s, she was a dancer with the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association.

1 portrait in the collection

Rose Scott

Rose Scott

Biography

Rose Scott (1847-1925), feminist and social reformer, devoted much of her life to campaigns that resulted in increased independence for Australian women.

1 portrait in the collection

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Scott Redford

Biography

Scott Redford (b. 1962) is a highly significant and influential Australian contemporary artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s.

2 portraits in the collection

Dame Margaret Scott

Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE

Biography

Dame Margaret Scott AC DBE (1922-2019) ballerina and teacher, was scarred by her education in a Johannesburg convent boarding school and left her home on a Swaziland farm in 1939.

1 portrait in the collection

Angus Young

Angus Young

Biography

Angus Young (b. 1955), guitarist and songwriter, was a founding member of Australia's most successful ever band, AC/DC.

3 portraits in the collection

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Darren McDonald

Biography

Darren McDonald gained his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) degree from RMIT in 2000, having completed an associate diploma in painting at the same institution.

1 portrait in the collection

Rosie Batty

Rosie Batty AO

Biography

Rosie Batty AO (b. 1962), campaigner against family violence, became well known to the Australian public in early 2014, when her eleven-year-old son Luke was murdered by his father as she stood waiting to take him home from cricket practice.

1 portrait in the collection

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George Baird Shaw

Biography

George Baird Shaw (1812-1883), painter and printmaker, arrived in Australia in 1856.

2 portraits in the collection

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Johnny Warren OAM MBE

Biography

Johnny Warren OAM MBE (1943-2004), footballer, football administrator and commentator, grew up in southern Sydney where he played his first games of soccer, as his game was then known, for the Botany Methodists.

1 portrait in the collection

A Collins Street Surgeon

James G. Beaney

Biography

James George Beaney (1828–1891), doctor and philanthropist, completed an apprenticeship to a surgeon in his home town of Canterbury, Kent, before leaving to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh.

1 portrait in the collection

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John Tsiavis

Biography

John Tsiavis (b. 1977) is a photographer working across portraiture, entertainment, editorial and advertising projects.

6 portraits in the collection

Arcadia (Wayne Lynch and Bob McTavish)

Bob McTavish

Biography

Bob McTavish began surfing in Queensland at the age of twelve - and for decades, he has written, he slept in cars, eating bread, bananas and the occasional spider and surfing at every opportunity.

2 portraits in the collection

Trevor Jamieson

Trevor Jamieson

Biography

Trevor Jamieson (b. 1975), Pitjantjatjara/Nyungar actor, didgeridoo player, guitarist, singer, dancer and storyteller, grew up in the Goldfields region of Western Australia.

1 portrait in the collection

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