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Seeking affirmation of a mother
Seeking affirmation of a mother
Seeking affirmation of a mother

Seeking affirmation of a mother, 2025

Scotty So
Portrait, digital video, 06:00 in loop on hologram device

Purchased 2025 

Seeking affirmation of a mother

In profile

Magazine article by Serena Bentley, 2025

Serena Bentley talks to multidisciplinary artist Scotty So about drag, mother figures, holograms and the performative nature of identity.
George Urquhart (Scotty) Allan
George Urquhart (Scotty) Allan
George Urquhart (Scotty) Allan

George Urquhart (Scotty) Allan, 1954

Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Gift of Danina Dupain Anderson 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025 exhibition display

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2026

Upcoming exhibition

The National Photographic Portrait Prize 2026 marks the end of one of the Gallery’s longest-running exhibitions.
Sydney Ure Smith

Dupain detective

Magazine article by Johanna McMahon, 2019

Johanna McMahon revels in history and mystery in pursuit of a suite of unknown portrait subjects.
Sir Charles Lloyd Jones

Home and away

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009

Sir William Dobell painted the portraits of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones and Sir Hudson Fysh, who did much to promote the image of Australia in this country and abroad.
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