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Wally (Wouter) De Backer, 2013 (printed 2014)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

Her Majesty seated, 1860

Purchased 2020

Heath Ledger, 1998 (printed 2017)

Gift of the artist 2020

Prince Albert, 1860

Purchased 2020

H.M. King George V at his desk, c. 1921

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Art Handlers' Award 2020

The Art Handlers' Award for 2020 went to Gemma Baxter (right view), 2019 by Shea Kirk.

Queen Victoria, 1860-1865

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, c. 1863

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Prince Arthur, 1860

Purchased 2020

A nation mourns the loss, c. 1861

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Fuzzy Leo (Leo Schofield), c. 2000

Gift of Nell Schofield 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

Exploring select works from the NPPP 2020. For secondary students.

Heath Ledger, 1998 (printed 2017)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2020

H.R.H. The Prince Alfred, 1860

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Princess Alice, 1860

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Prince Alfred, 1860

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

H.R.H. The Prince Arthur, 1860

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

John Bertrand, 2019

Purchased with funds provided by Dr Helen Nugent AO 2020

Leo McKern as Dad Rudd, 1994 (printed 2020)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, 2006 (printed 2020)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Queen Victoria in mourning, with a portrait of Prince Albert, c. 1862

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Winner announcement

Karen Quinlan AM, Director, National Portrait Gallery announces the Winner and Highly Commended Award for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020.

The latest portrait of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, c. 1896

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and Suite in Mining Costume after descending the Band of Hope Gold Mine, Ballarat, Australia, 1867

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Princess Alexandra of Denmark (later Queen Alexandra), c. 1862

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020

Elizabeth, 2019

Gift of the artist 2020

Kylie Minogue 2, 2018 (printed 2020)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2020

Kylie Minogue 1, 2018 (printed 2020)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2020

Darling Portrait Prize 2020

The Darling Prize is a new biennial prize for Australian portrait painters, painting Australian sitters. The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.

George Tjungurrayi, 2007

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Tim Winton, 2019

Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal 2020

The Hon. Alex Chernov AC KC, 2019

Gift of twenty members of the Victorian Bar 2020

Walter Lindrum

A portrait story exploring the life of Walter Lindrum, one of the greatest billiard players of all time.

Announcing... Pub Rock

An exhibition that celebrates the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on the nation’s identity, opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 5 September, 2020.

Robert Klippel, c. 1990

Purchased 2020

Justin Tjungurrayi, 2007

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Her Majesty, 1860

Purchased 2020

Self Portrait in a Brown Coat, 1936

Purchased 2020

Hugh Jackman, 2020

Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation and Paul Dainty AM and Donna Dainty 2020

Nell, 2008

Gift of Nell Schofield 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Adut Akech, 2018 (printed 2020)

Gift of the artist 2020

Matilda (Ngambri), 2020

Purchased with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2020

Reko Rennie, 2014

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Eccleston Du Faur, 1911

Gift of the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service 2020

Gaby Kennard, 2020

Purchased with funds provided by Joan Connery OAM 2020

Spring exhibition program

The following on-line and physical exhibitions are planned to open at the National Portrait Gallery in coming months. For those who can’t travel at present, selected works from all exhibitions will be included online

Adut Akech with brother Bior, 2018 (printed 2020)

Gift of the artist 2020

Betsy Napangardi Lewis, 2007

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as Marguerite Gautier in 'La Dame aux Camélias', 1891

Purchased 2020

Jacob Nash, 2017

Gift of the artist 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Walala Tjapaltjarri, 2009

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Adut Akech with siblings Kim, Yar, Bior and Alakiir, 2018 (printed 2020)

Gift of the artist 2020

Adut Akech with baby sister Akoul, 2018 (printed 2020)

Gift of the artist 2020

Portrait of Philip Williams, 2019

Gift of Rick Amor and Meg Williams in memory of Althea 'Bid' Williams 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Dorothy Robinson Napangardi, 2010

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The National Photographic Portrait Prize: 2021 Living Memory

Director Karen Quinlan AM announces significant changes for 2021, including a larger, longer exhibition, themed to reflect our experience of events that have occurred in this historic year.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.

Reg Livermore, Pitt Street, Sydney, 1965 (printed 2020)

Purchased 2020

The National Portrait Prizes

The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.

2020 Annual Appeal

In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.

To arrive at hope

Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.

The People’s Choice Awards

The votes have been counted, and the winners of the National Portrait Gallery’s People’s Choice Awards for the Prize exhibitions are...

Presenting… Shirley Purdie’s Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe

The National Portrait Gallery this week launches an online exhibition of Shirley Purdie’s remarkable self-portrait Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe to coincide with Reconciliation Week.

Marc Besen AC and Eva Besen AO
Featuring a favourite painting, Fred Williams ‘Wild Dog Creek’ 1977, 2020

Commissioned with funds provided by Nigel Satterley AM and Denise Satterley 2020

Announcing.... In their own words

Inspiring Australians tell their own stories in a unique new gallery audio tour, developed in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.

2020

NYE 2020

Mother's Day 2020

Self portrait with Bottlebrush, 1991

Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC and the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2021

Gifts register for previous years

My life la Gilbun, 2020

Drew, Deception Bay, Queensland, 3 March 2020

In Conversation

Darling Portrait Prize finalist Liam Nunan and actor Guy Simon discuss their portrait, their friendship and the intensity of the acting life.

Virtual collection tour

Join us as we reflect on how people with disability have been represented in portraiture, how this has changed over time and what comes next. Includes Auslan signing.

15 Minutes of Frame

Karen Quinlan AM, Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, in conversation with Kim Sajet, Director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.

In Conversation

Brenda L Croft (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples) talks with Ngambri/Ngunnawal/Wiradjuri elder, Dr Matilda House, about her photographic portrait.

Dr John Janson-Moore

The Zammitt Family is part of a massive series of mine that I've been doing since early 2020, documenting COVID in and around Sydney.

Ben Roberts-Smith, 2018

Commissioned in 2018 with funds raised through the 2020 project

Learning resource

A learning resource exploring select works from the NPPP 2020 for secondary students.

Marking the extraordinary

This edition of the prize incorporates a year like no other: 2020. Accordingly, the title - Living Memory - acknowledges the period's seismic events.

Prizes

Thanks to Canon Australia, the Winner of the NPPP 2020 will be awarded over $50,000 in prizes. Thanks to Eizo, the Highly Commended winner will receive a ColorEdge monitor, and the winner of the Art Handlers' Award will receive $2,000 thanks to IAS Fine Art Logistics.

Mask on inside

Australian Love Stories Online

The Australian Love Stories exhibition accompanies Australian Love Stories Online, the interactive amorous adventure launched in August 2020.

Lockdown dreaming II

Standing in the now and looking to the future

Jeanne Little, 1994 (printed 2021)

Purchased 2021

The Wobbly Wizard - Isolation Portrait

Warwick Thornton, 2019 (printed 2022)

Gift of the artist 2022

Olympian

Blue light hypnosis

Tony Bilson, c. 2005

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Tony Bilson 2008

Us Mob, Rock Against Racism Concert, Paddington Town Hall, 1980 (printed 2021)

Purchased 2021

Us Mob, Paddington Town Hall, 1980 (printed 2021)

Purchased 2021

The Dance - David McAllister, 2016

Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016

Brad, Carlton North

Let them eat cake, by Zoom

Emily and Effi

Sketchbook journal for the commission portrait "The Dance - David McAllister", 2016

Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016

Jon Lewis, 1990 (printed 2002)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

A Covid kind of day

Artists in residence – Carlos, Jono and Lazy Susan

'How many days?' Dr Bronwyn Wells

Self portrait

Her whole world now

David McAllister

Dr Sarah Engledow

Dr Sarah Engledow was appointed Historian at the National Portrait Gallery in 1999.

Leaving Melbourne (Battle wounds)

Wesley Enoch and David McAllister, 2020

Purchased with funds provided by Alan Dodge AM and Neil Archibald 2021

Millie, 2012

Surfer Rusty Miller

Anna

Living Memory

The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.

Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake: Ella Havelka, Beijing

Observation point

Nicholas Harding describes his enduring fascination with drawing and painting people.

Amanda McGuigan from the 'Sydney Opera House at Rest' series

Marty's living room

Darling Portrait Prize 2022

The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG (1921-2015). The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.

Brooke Lockett, Heidi Martin, Karen Nanasca and Halaina Hills, NYC

Dr B Marika AO

Stepping out

Beautiful punk love

Brenda L Croft and Dr Matilda House

Brenda L Croft (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples) talks with Ngambri/Ngunnawal/Wiradjuri elder, Dr Matilda House, about her photographic portrait.

Dr B Marika AO, 2020

Gift of the artist 2022

This airport’s gone to the dogs

Right-hound man

Panel discussion

A dynamic panel discussion that interrogates some of the themes revealed in Living Memory.

Ryan Presley: Paradise won

Marri Ngarr artist Ryan Presley's site-specific commission Paradise won is prominently positioned at the Gallery’s entrance. This ambitious new work invites conversations about the ongoing legacies of colonisation and celebrates First Nations survival and autonomy.

15 minutes of frame

Delve into the lives, loves and labour of the world’s most prominent portrait galleries in this international conversation series.

Update on Temporary Closure of the National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery will close its doors from Tuesday 23 April 2019, but the public are still able to experience the home of portraiture during the four-month closure.

Nell

Nell is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land in the Eora Nation, Sydney. Her work fuses mythological, spiritual and popular cultural iconography.

Don Burrows at work, 1998

Purchased with funds donated by Patrick Corrigan 2000

John Schaeffer AO - art collector and philanthropist, 2014

Purchased with funds provided by Harold Mitchell AC

2019-20 Acquisition Fund

From 2019 to 2020 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on a large, vibrant portrait of Elena Kats-Chernin by Wendy Sharpe.

Two gentlemen celebrating a birthday (Frank Watters and Geoffrey Legge), 1974

Gift of Frank Watters OAM 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Ben Roberts-Smith, 2017

Commissioned in 2018 with funds raised through the 2020 project

James Mollison, c. 1973 (printed 2004)

Gift of James Mollison AO 2004

Darby McCarthy, c. 1969 (printed 2019)

Purchased 2019

Buoyant Brack brood breeds inspiration

Domesticity’s creative maelstrom

Sir Robert May AC KT, 1999

Purchased 2001

15 minutes of frame

Delve into the lives, loves and labour of the world’s most prominent portrait galleries in this international conversation series.

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters, 1999

Purchased 2021

Helen Reddy, 1978

Purchased 2006

June Dally-Watkins, 1949 (printed 2008)

Purchased 2008

Rachel, 2021

Purchased 2022

Andrew Steiner, 2020 (printed 2021)

Gift of the artist 2021

Ellie Cole, 2016 (printed 2021)

Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal for Contemporary Australian Photography 2021

"Poet of the Hawkesbury" Robert Adamson, 2012

Gift of the artist 2013. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

June Dally-Watkins, 1959

Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal 2023

Christos Tsiolkas, 1998 (printed 2009)

Purchased 2009

Christos Tsiolkas, 1998 (printed 2009)

Purchased 2009

Jack Mundey, 1997

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007

Kylie Minogue, 1999

Purchased 2000

Jack Mundey, 1985

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Jacki Weaver, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018

Chris Hemsworth, 2016 (printed 2021)

Gift of the artist 2021

Saint Catherine (Catherine Hamlin), 2006

Purchased 2008

Kurt Baier, 1942

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002

Amrita Hepi

Bundjulung/Ngapuhi woman Amrita Hepi’s work considers the body’s relationship to personal histories and archive, and investigates dance as social function.

Jack Charles, 2011

Purchased 2013

Cate Blanchett, 1998

Gift of the artist 1999

Jack Thompson, 2019 (printed 2021)

Gift of the artist 2021

Shahleena Musk, c. 2000

Gift of the artist 2004

James Mollison, c. 1973 (printed 2004)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of James Mollison AO 2004

A man and his music: Peter Weiss and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, 1995

Gift of Peter Weiss AO 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Henry "Seaman" Dan, 2009

Purchased 2010

Jack Thompson, 2013

Purchased 2015

Naomi Watts, 2003

Gift of the artist 2004

The Gladiators (Norm Provan and Arthur Summons), 1963 (printed 1970s)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, 1971

Gift of the artist 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Professor Geoffrey Burnstock, 1971

Gift of the artist 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters, 2008

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010

Gideon Obarzanek, 2012

Purchased 2012

Akira Isogawa, 2001

Gift of the artist 2005

George Tjungurrayi, 2002

Gift of Pamela Hansford 2007. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Djon, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Mungo MacCallum, press gallery cricket, 1973

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Enid Hawkins 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize 2022

Little Darlings is for primary and secondary students, with four separate categories across Kindergarten to Year 12. Responding to the theme ‘identity’, students painted, drew, photographed, printed or combined all of these to make their portrait.

Untitled #15 (Kylie Minogue performs at Tour of Duty concert at Dili Stadium, East Timor, 21 December 1999), 1999-2000

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Untitled #88 (Captain Brad Kilpatrick and Kylie Minogue, Balibo, East Timor, 20 December 1999), 1999

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Trevor Jamieson, 2016

Purchased 2018

Harry Williams, 2005

Purchased 2006

Samantha Cook, c. 2000

Gift of the artist 2004

Collection: Icons

When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.

Icons

When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.

Weaving identity

Rebecca Ray explores the way identity, belonging and connectedness are translated through materiality in First Nations portraiture.

Nick Cave, 2001 (printed 2014)

Gift of the artist 2017. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Dr B Marika AO, 1990

Gift of Leo Christie 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Observation point

For me, portraiture is all about connection. If we can connect deeply to another person’s story, it can be a profoundly moving experience.

Gifts and Benefits Register

In accordance with the Australian Public Service Commission’s Guidance for Agency Heads on Gifts and Benefits, the National Portrait Gallery will maintain a register of gifts and benefits accepted by its Director and publicly disclose any that are over $100 in value.

Fred Gruen, 1941

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds donated by Andrew Sayers and from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2002

Cardinal George Pell, 2007 (printed 2012)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022

The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.

Portrait of Cate Blanchett, 2008

Commissioned with funds provided by Ian Darling 2008

Facing the inferno

Tara James speaks to Cam Neville about his portrait series, Firefighters.

Archie Roach, 1992 (printed 2010)

Purchased 2010

Barry Tuckwell, 1991

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of David Tuckwell 2018

Time and light

This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.

Annual Appeal

In our nature

Tara James chats with award-winning artist Tamara Dean about portraiture prizes, the environment and the strength of women.

Archie Roach, 2008

Gift of the artist 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.

Untitled #21/09 (after Ricci, 1700; featuring Matthew Mitcham), 2009

Gift of the artist 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Living Memory – National Photographic Portrait Prize extended to January 2022

In light of recent and ongoing gallery closures brought on by the COVID pandemic, the NPG’s 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition season will be extended until 16 January next year.

Textiles Scientist Voted the People’s Favourite

The black and white portrait of an elderly woman with sidelong glance and irreverent, contemplative smile has taken out the people’s choice award in this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Where we fit: social policy context

There are a wide range of legislative requirements and strategies which have influenced the development of this DIAP.

The play’s the thing

Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.

Australian Love Stories

A major new exhibition celebrating love in all its guises. Opening 20 March 2021.

Seduce, Amuse, Entertain

Michael Desmond, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2007 Prize.

Portrait of Professors Margaret Gardner and Glyn Davis, 2017

Commissioned with funds provided by Jim and Barbara Higgins, Sir Roderick Carnegie AC, Rupert Myer AO and Annabel Myer, Louise and Martyn Myer Foundation, Peter and Ruth McMullin, Diana Carlton, Professor Derek Denton AC, Harold Mitchell AC, Peter Jopling AM KC, Andrew and Liz Mackenzie, Patricia Patten, Tamie Fraser AO, Bruce Parncutt and Robin Campbell, Lauraine Diggins, Steven Skala AO and Lousje Skala 2017

People are people

Sandra Bruce chats with seven-time NPPP finalist Chris Budgeon about photography, guitars and representing the human story.

Seduce Amuse Entertain

Michael Desmond profiles a handful of the entrants in first National Photographic Portrait Prize and notes emerging themes and categories.

Harriet Schwarzrock: spaces between movement and stillness

To celebrate the new exhibition Australian Love Stories, renowned Australian glass artist Harriet Schwarzrock has been commissioned to make a large-scale installation reflecting on the role the heart plays as our emotional centre.

Facing the feeling

Penelope Grist explores the interplay between medicine and portraiture in Vic McEwan’s Face to Face: The New Normal.

The eye and the heart

Nici Cumpston immerses herself in the collective vision of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020.

Us being ourselves

Penelope Grist talks to photographer Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis about capturing moments, telling stories and keeping Culture strong.

Foundation Members

Chairman Sid Myer AM, Hayley Baillie, Tim Bednall, Jillian Broadbent AC, Patrick Corrigan AM, Marilyn Darling AC, Tim Fairfax AC, Penny Fowler AM, John Liangis, Dr Helen Nugent AC and Nigel Satterley AM.

2023 Annual Appeal

In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.

Virtually yours

Gill Raymond on creating thought-provoking, interactive content to connect to our online community through portraiture.

Storytelling

The fourth row of paintings interweave Ngarranggarni, memories, relationships and Country.

History

How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be

Let’s dance

Emma Batchelor uncovers the compelling contemporary dance made in response to the works in Shakespeare to Winehouse.

Giving a dam

Ensconced and meditative in crisp Tasmania, Joanna Gilmour pays tribute to passionate green advocate and photographer Olegas Truchanas.

Memories

The second row of paintings recall stories relating to specific sites, experiences and activities.

Skin names

The first row of paintings depict stories relating to kinship, introducing significant women relatives.

Our Disability Action Plan

We need to ensure that our attitudes are inclusive, our environments accessible, our workforces diverse and our processes user friendly so that everyone can benefit.

Ngarranggarni

The third row of paintings come from Ngarranggarni (Dreaming).

Kate Beynon’s transcultural life and art

Phoebe Lupton profiles artist Kate Beynon, whose contemplative self portrait features in Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize.

The 'I' in Indigenous art

Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.

Mash-up

Penelope Grist delves into an insightful portraiture exhibition that asks: How do three artists see the same sitter?

Being Cate

A moving portrait of Cate Blanchett unfolds as an inspired pairing of medium and subject.

Back track

Penelope Grist finds photographer Matt Nettheim re-visiting a formative and fulfilling career tram stop.

The story of us

Gallery directors Karen Quinlan and Tony Ellwood talk to Penelope Grist about the NPG and NGV collaborative exhibition, Who Are You: Australian Portraiture.

More than human

Gillian Raymond investigates the history of humanoid robots and asks, is this the future of portraiture?

Love in the extreme

Joanna Gilmour reveals love’s more intense manifestations in the tale of Lord Kenelm and Venetia Digby.

Dance like everyone’s watching

Penelope Grist’s spirits soar with Lisa Tomasetti’s Dancers in the Streets series.

Of plague and portraits

Corinna Cullen on the symbolic power of pandemic-related imagery over the ages.

The look and the feel

Editor Stephen Phillips looks at the finalists' photographs through a judge's lens.

The right note

Marian Anderson’s glorious voice thrust her into stardom, and a more reluctant role as American civil rights pioneer.

Twin chics

Joanna Gilmour on the exuberant union of fashion pioneers Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, captured in luminescent splendour by artist Carla Fletcher.

Mother’s muse

Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.

A potpourri of portraits

Archie 100 curator (and detective) Natalie Wilson’s nationwide search for Archibald portraits unearthed the fascinating stories behind some long-lost treasures.

The catechist and the cricketer

Stephen Valambras Graham traverses the intriguing socio-political terrain behind two iconic First Nations portraits of the 1850s.

Portrait Donors