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Gift of Mrs Kate Hodgkinson 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Jill Hickson Wran AM (b. 1948) graduated from the University of Sydney and then worked for Qantas.
1 portrait in the collection

The Hon. Neville Wran AC QC (1926-2014) was the longest serving premier of New South Wales (1976 - 86), achieving major legal, social, environmental and cultural reforms.
1 portrait in the collection

Dr Jill Orr (born 1952) is a Melbourne-born contemporary artist, whose performance-based practice has continued to interrogate the environmental concerns since the 1970s.
1 portrait in the collection

Jill Neville (1932–1997), writer and critic, grew up in Sydney and attended a Blue Mountains boarding school.
1 portrait in the collection

Jill Ker Conway AC (1934-2018), academic, writer and company director, was born in Hillston in western New South Wales and spent her early years on her father's sheep station, Coorain, which was so isolated that she was seven years old before she saw another girl.
1 portrait in the collection




Gift of the artist 2023



Gift of the artist 2002



Gift of an anonymous donor 2001


Guboo Ted Thomas (1909–2002), land rights activist, was a tribal Elder of the Yuin nation and grew up on the Wallaga Lake Reserve near Narooma.
1 portrait in the collection

The portrait's of my mother, Catherine, and the photograph was taken in a family home that we had and my mother was relocating to Tasmania.



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gillian Appleton (McClelland) 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Sir Frank Lowy AC (b. 1930) businessman, property developer and philanthropist, founded the Westfield group of shopping centres.
2 portraits in the collection

Headspace showcases portrait art produced by secondary students from Year 7 to Year 12 in Government, Catholic and Independent schools in Canberra and its surrounding regions extending to Wollongong, Deniliquin, Leeton, Crookwell, Bombala, Narooma and Albury