We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands.

Kerrie Lester Fred Hollows

oil and hand-stitching on canvas

256.50 x 134 cm (irregular)

Image courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

This portrait by Kerrie Lester of Fred Hollows (1929–1993), ophthalmologist and 1990 Australian of the Year, is now in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. It is one of two portraits of Hollows in the 1993 Archibald; the other is by Vladas Meskenas.