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The National Portrait Gallery Collection
Currently on view
Browse the full list of portraits from the collection that are on view now.
The Immersive World of Thom Roberts
Closes 20 July 2025
A free exhibition of over 100 works by contemporary Australian artist Thom Roberts. Step into his world and experience bold paintings, animation and installation works where people and places intertwine.
Joan Ross
Those trees came back to me in my dreams
Closes 27 April 2025
Discover 50 colonial-era collection works alongside 50 works by contemporary artist Joan Ross. With wit and wry critique, Ross will make you consider the artist’s role in determining which stories are told, about who and why.
Ryan Presley: Paradise won
On view until May 2025
Marri Ngarr artist Ryan Presley’s major installation greets you as you arrive at the Gallery, in a work that invites conversations about the ongoing legacies of colonisation.
Some Lads
In Gallery Four
Open every day
Tracey’s Moffat’s complete Some Lads series powerfully and playfully depicts Russell Page, Larrakia man Gary Lang, Muruwari man Matthew Doyle, and Graham Blanco, a descendant of the Mer (Murray Island) people.
wani toaishara: a most beautiful experiment
In Gallery Four
Open every day
A most beautiful experiment responds to Congolese photographer Jean Depara’s documentation of Kinshara’s nightlife in the 1960s.