Tuesday 18 January 2022 – Thursday 18 January 2024
Join us online for a magical workshop with illustrator and author, Cheryl Orsini, as she guides you to weave words and pictures to tell a story.
Bookings required
Make some moving memories with us! Dancing With Memories author Sally Yule will join us for a special reading of her book. With Auslan interpretation.
Bookings required
Join us online or in the Gallery for a powerful conversation with Michael Ghillar Anderson, as he speaks about his personal involvement in the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, its 50-year legacy, and the significance and power of its continuing presence.
Bookings required
Are the scandals of the past still regarded as scandals today? Don your defiance and delve into history with us to see if times have changed.
Bookings required
Dine online with some of our most delicious portraits of Australia’s groundbreaking culinary experts.
Bookings required
Join Curator Exhibitions Penny Grist to hear about Hoda’s recent book and upcoming exhibition Speak the Wind, and to chat about portraiture, photography, and her life as an artist over the last few years.
Bookings required
What’s it made of? Join us from wherever you are as we look beyond the sitters and artists to explore the materiality of some intriguingly made portraits.
Bookings required
Feeling blue? Need something to brighten up your day? Join us online as we explore some of the most colourful hue-mans in the collection!
Bookings required
Do you feel the need … the need for speed? Well, click in your seatbelt and join us at pole position for a high-octane adventure to meet some of Australia’s most daredevil drivers!
Bookings required
Stretch up and join us in the Gallery for a series of short performances by some of Australia's leading performing artists.
Bookings required
Join us online as we explore photographic portraits by Polly Borland. Explore her unique artist eye by deeply looking at four fellow ex-pats who ventured to England for bigger and brighter things.
Bookings required
Join us from wherever you are as we celebrate International Pi Day (3/14 … get it?!), oh but a day late because it was cooling on the windowsill.
Bookings required
The thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to: six centuries, seven stories, 500 years of British history.
Bookings required
Join us online as we explore some remarkable stories from, Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Bookings required
A piano! Celebrate International Piano Day with a mixed tape of piano inspired portraits.
Bookings required
To celebrate ACT Youth Week, we’ll be winding back the clock and uncovering the early starts some of our favourite artists and sitters received.
Bookings required
Let’s take a look at the importance of the hands in a portrait.
Bookings required
A real life Witch will be reading Room on the Broom (on Zoom!) by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, so children are also encouraged to dress up in their best witch or wizard costumes at home.
Bookings required
Get your Tuesday inspiration from some revolutionary artists and sitters.
Bookings required
From pearls, jewels and silk to a self-portrait all about flesh, join us for a feast of portraits from Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London where opulence, prowess and oil painting collide. This program will be audio described.
Bookings required
Hello operator, this is London calling. One minute, I’ll put you through. Join us like a telephonist to eavesdrop on conversations about collection works that have London ties.
Bookings required
With Mother’s Day in mind, join us as we join you from our Women Make History collection hang.
Bookings required
Join us from wherever you are as Belfast-based artist, Colin Davidson talks about the fortuitous happenstances that led to him painting a range of famous faces (from Brad Pitt to the Queen, and everyone in between!)
Bookings required
Join us for a closer look into how three portraits from our collection depict diverse Australians and their different accessibility requirements. We'll be celebrating their art and impact on greater society.
Bookings required
Let’s discuss what is happening in and out of the image in a fun investigation discovering portraiture tropes from 1929 onwards.
Bookings required
Join Associate Curator, Rebecca Ray and Curator, Collection & Research, Joanna Gilmour as they explore First Nations activists in our collection, celebrating their continual culture, identity, strength and resilience.
Bookings requiredFrom pearls, jewels and silk to a self-portrait all about flesh, join us for a feast of portraits from Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London where opulence, prowess and oil painting collide. This program will be audio described.
Bookings required
Come on a journey of exploration to celebrate World Oceans Day! Join artists Dr Sarah Kachovich, Megan Cope and Jiani Sheng in conversation with NPG Exhibitions Curator Penny Grist.
Bookings required
As we approach the end of our time with Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London, let’s get all spooky, light our candelabras and delve into the stories of those in the exhibition who met a gruesome, untimely end...
Bookings required
Dive into the world of frills, feathers and fatigues as we discuss the importance of costume in Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Bookings required
Join Australian photography curator, historian and writer, Helen Ennis for a conversation about photographers challenging the conventions of personal and public space in their portraits.
Bookings required
Visit us, learn with us, support us or work with us! Here’s a range of information about planning your visit, our history and more!
We depend on your support to keep creating our programs, exhibitions, publications and building the amazing portrait collection!
COVID-19 information, location, accessibility and amenities.
