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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

NAIDOC Portraits - For Our Elders

School group bookings

Daily from Monday 17 July until Friday 21 July 2023
3:15 – 3:45pm and 4:15 – 4:45pm AEST
Ngayulu Minyma Tjanpinya, I am a Tjanpi Woman
Portrait of Jawoyn Elder, Margaret Katherine
Betty Muffler
1 Ngayulu Minyma Tjanpinya, I am a Tjanpi Woman, 2018 Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM, Tjanpi Desert Weavers. © Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM, Tjanpi Desert Weavers. 2 Portrait of Jawoyn Elder, Margaret Katherine, 2015 John Gollings. © John Gollings/Copyright Agency, 2023. 3 Betty Muffler, 2021 Robert Fielding. © Robert Fielding and Mimili Maku Arts.

Bookings essential - free

Book your school and entire cohort or just your classroom for a half an hour session. This free program will be delivered using Zoom.

Check our latest conditions of entry related to COVID-19. Please note we cannot accept cash payments at the Gallery.

Celebrate NAIDOC with First Nations portraiture during a live National Portrait Gallery program.

Students celebrate the contributions of First Nations Elders in the National Portrait Gallery collection. In association with NAIDOC Portraits are used to encourage engagement in students, to build the knowledge and skills to look, respond and create.

This program will highlight the achievements of Elders, by telling the stories of their lives. We will examine what we notice about who they are – their identity through the visual communications of art.

  • Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures and times, including artwork by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to use as inspiration for their own representations.
  • Use materials, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions when making artworks.
  • Present artworks and describe how they have used visual conventions to represent their ideas. Please have drawing material/tools ready for each participant!
  • Identify intended purposes and meanings of artworks using visual arts terminology to compare artworks, starting with visual artworks in Australia including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Program Facilitator April Phillips is a Wiradjuri-Scottish educator, digital artist, graphic anthropologist and audience specialist with ancestry to the Galari people of regional NSW. She is passionate about innovative approaches to learning such as multi-modal resources and live virtual delivery. April is a First Nations Learning Designer, developing resources and engaging experiences for students across the nation.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this program contains images, voices and names of deceased persons.

Access information

Make a booking and the Gallery will email you details on how to connect with us using Zoom.

For access support or other ways to book please email bookings@npg.gov.au or phone 02 6102 7070 prior to your visit.

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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people.

This website comprises and contains copyrighted materials and works. Copyright in all materials and/or works comprising or contained within this website remains with the National Portrait Gallery and other copyright owners as specified.

The National Portrait Gallery respects the artistic and intellectual property rights of others. The use of images of works of art reproduced on this website and all other content may be restricted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Requests for a reproduction of a work of art or other content can be made through a Reproduction request. For further information please contact NPG Copyright.

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