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Media Release • 6 Dec 21

WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture

Rona Panangka Rubuntja
I'm black (Nicky Winmar), covered vase 2015
earthenware
(a-b) 53.1 x 24.8 cm diameter (overall)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015
2015.448.a-b
© Rona Panangka Rubuntja/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Kaylene Whiskey
Seven Sisters Song 2021
enamel paint on road sign
120.0 x 180.0 cm irreg.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2021
2021.549
© Kaylene Whiskey. Courtesy of the artist, Iwantja Arts and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
John NIXON
Self Portrait (non-objective composition) (yellow cross) (1990)
enamel paint on plywood
177.6 x 165.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Chase Manhattan Overseas Corporation, Fellow, 1991
A11-1991
© Courtesy of the artist
Anne ZAHALKA
The surfers (1989)
type C photograph
76.4 x 92.5 cm (image)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1991
PH173-1991
© Anne Zahalka/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Max MARTIN
Portrait group 1922
oil on canvas
152.8 x 102.2 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased through The Art Foundation of Victoria with the assistance of Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 1995
1995.564
© Veronica Martin
Atong ATEM
Adut (2015); (2019) {printed}
from the Studio series 2015
digital type C print
59.4 x 84.1 cm (image) 63.6 x 92.7 cm (sheet)
ed. 3/10
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2019
2019.832
© Atong Atem, courtesy Mars Gallery, Melbourne
Nora HEYSEN
Australia 1911–2003, lived in England
and Italy 1934–37
Self portrait 1934
oil on canvas
43.1 x 36.3 cm
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Purchased 1999 (1999.50)
© Lou Klepac
Howard ARKLEY
Australia 1951–99
Nick Cave 1999
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
175.2 x 135.2 x 4.3 cm
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Commissioned with funds provided
by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 1999
(1999.16)
© Estate of Howard Arkley. Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art
Samuel METFORD
England 1810–90, lived in United States
1834–44
MacKenzie family silhouette 1846
brush and ink, pen and ink, stencil
cutout with watercolour highlights
on paper
43.2 x 64.0. cm
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Gift of the Estate of Nancy Wiseman
2007 (2007.36)
National Portrait Gallery
Karla DICKENS
Wiradjuri born 1967
Mrs Woods and ‘Ere (2013)
inkjet print on paper, ed. 3/10
66.0 x 100.0 cm (image);
76.5 x 110.0 cm (sheet)
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Purchased 2019 (2019.1)
© Karla Dickens/Copyright Agency, 2022

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