Michael Lodge, at College 1961-62, brought his old friend Prof Garth Nicholson, at College 1961-66, back to College to finalise an agreement for Michael’s portrait of Garth to be given to the College. After studying architecture Michael has been a life-long artist with work as an illustrator for the Canberra Times, The Bulletin and the Australian and more generally in advertising and publishing.

Garth studied MBBS and PhD, is a neurologist who has focused his research on hereditary diseases of nerves, including a number of world-first studies. Garth is currently Professor of Neurogenetics at the University of Sydney.

The College is delighted to receive portraits of its interesting alumni and in this case we have received a double-header because the artist is also a Pauline! An interesting point from a story Michael happily told us is that the Nicholson portrait was one of the 1,005 entries in the 2024 Archibald Prize but it didn’t make it into the 57 selected works.