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Self portrait
1981

Michael Shannon

Self portrait at easel
1960-1961

Fred Williams

Self portrait with glove
1939

Herbert Badham

In the mirror: self portrait with Joy Hester
1939

Albert Tucker

Self portrait
1992

Rolf Harris

Self portrait
1934

Nora Heysen AM

Self portrait
between 1951 and 1953

Janet Dawson

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait
1846

George French Angas

Self portrait, Cyprus
1953

David Potts

David Moore, Corio, Victoria
1942 (printed 2000)

David Moore

Semi self portrait, Hunter Valley
1992 (printed 2000)

David Moore

The New Arrivals at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
1941

Russell Drysdale

Self portrait in green hues
c. 1962

Roland Wakelin

Self portrait
2001

Jeffrey Smart AO

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
late 1930s

Sir William Dargie CBE

Self portrait
1990

Andrew Sibley

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
1990

Andrew Sibley

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait with pin-up
1965

Richard Larter

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait
1948

Grace Cossington Smith OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait
2002

Barry Humphries

Self portrait
1990

Anne Zahalka

Self portrait
c. 1934

Stella Bowen

Self portrait (Full Length in front of Easel)
1901-1902

Hugh Ramsay

Self portrait in reflection
1973

Lewis Morley

Nude self portrait
1977

Lewis Morley

The Last Picture Show (Lewis Morley and Henry Talbot)
1999

Lewis Morley

Self portrait with gladioli
1922

George Lambert

Olly's Trolly, Freddie's Brushes
1989

Murray Walker

The Jester (self portrait)
1923

Lionel Lindsay

Self portrait in plus fours
c. 1939 (cast 2003)

Lyndon Dadswell CMG

Self portrait
c. 1984

Albert Tucker

On display: Gallery Five

I think of my Culture
1989

Jeffrey Samuels

On Reflection
2004

Hossein Valamanesh, Angela Valamanesh

On display: Gallery Two

Self portrait
1999

Rick Amor

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
2004

Peter Russell-Clarke

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
c. 1911

Frank Hurley OBE

Self portrait
1976 (printed 2005)

David Malin

Self portrait
1988

Sidney Nolan

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
1950

Eric Westbrook

Self portrait
1949

Frank Hinder

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait with Spots and Veins
2003

Chris O'Doherty

Disillusion self portrait
1983

Mary MacQueen

On display: Gallery Five

"The determined" Self portrait
2002

George Foxhill

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
1911

Evelyn Chapman

Self portrait
2005

Rick Amor

Self portrait
1894

Livingston Hopkins

Self portrait
c. 1930

Percy Leason

Bruce Petty
2008

Bruce Petty

Me
1992

Ken Done

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
1971

Thomas de Kessler

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
1858-1860

George Fordyce Story

Potters' Portrait Pot
2009

Hermannsburg Potters, Irene Mbitjana Entata, Virginia Mbitjana Rontji, Lindy Panangka Rontji, Rahel Kngwarria Ungwanaka, Rona Panangka Rubuntja, Dawn Ngala Wheeler, Judith Pungarta Inkamala, Anita Ratara Mbitjana, Hayley Panangka Coulthard, Clara Ngala Inkamala

Self portrait
c. 1985

Bert Flugelman

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
c. 1849

Charles Rodius

Self portrait
c. 1948

John Brack

On display: Gallery Three

12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 3)
1990

Mike Parr, John Loane

The photographer's shadow (Olive Cotton and Max Dupain)
c. 1935 (printed 1999)

Olive Cotton

Self portrait
1909

Bess Norriss Tait

Self portrait, Paris
1989

Brett Whiteley

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
1984-1985

Andrew Sibley

Self portrait among the ant hills
1950

Eric Thake

The rock and the flies
1952

Eric Thake

Mr Thake - Dr So and So
1959

Eric Thake

Epstein/Einstein? I can never remember!
1962

Eric Thake

Sunshine and rain, Lygon Street
1964

Eric Thake

Desert Island
1967

Eric Thake

Figure in a rocky landscape
1965

Eric Thake

The chase
1952

Charles Blackman OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait, Adil
2009

Dennis Nona

Self portrait, Malu Sara (deep sea tern)
2010

Dennis Nona

Study for "Portrait of the artist as an evolving landscape"
1991

James Gleeson

On display: Gallery Five

Study for self portrait
c. 1965

Jean Appleton

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
c. 1940

Adrian Lawlor

Robert Rooney, self portrait December 1978
1978 (printed 2012)

Robert Rooney

Self portrait
1993

Tim Storrier

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
1949

Louis Kahan AO

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait with scarf
c. 1930s

Rupert Bunny

Self portrait
1999/2005

Tracey Moffatt

Self portrait
2006

Judy Cassab AO CBE

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait (Hilda in the Chinoise hat)
c. 1913

Hilda Rix Nicholas

Self portrait
1921

Thea Proctor

Self portrait
1965

Jean Appleton

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait
1945-1946

Arthur Boyd AC OBE

On display: Gallery Five

Divide (Self portrait)
2011

Sam Jinks

The Awakening (Self portrait)
1946

Vlase Zanalis

Self portrait
1870

William H. Bardwell

Self portrait
1937

Harold Cazneaux

Self portrait
n.d.

Ada May Plante

Maquette for 'Divide'
2011

Sam Jinks

Self portrait
c. 1982

Bea Maddock AM

On display: Gallery Five

Fleeing figure
1988

Bea Maddock AM, Larry Rawlings

On display: Gallery Five

Portrait of an Artist (Self portrait)
1944

David Strachan

On display: Gallery Three

Jarinyanu Dancing at Broome Festival
1990

Jarinyanu David Downs

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
1962

Arnold Shore

After Jack
2012

Jenny Sages

Self portrait as Sarah Wisse, Transported
1996

Margaret Woodward

The painter transmogrified and Mrs Smith
1973

Eric Smith

On display: Gallery Three

Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe
2018

Shirley Purdie

Self portrait at 85
1990

Joshua Smith

Self Portrait in a Brown Coat
1936

Christine A. Pecket

On display: Gallery Six

Self portrait with Bottlebrush
1991

Margaret Olley AC

Self portrait
1964

Arthur Boyd AC OBE

On display: Gallery Three

Self portrait
1900

Agnes Goodsir

Style Over Substance
2020

The Huxleys

Smalltown Boy (Surfers Paradise)
2018

The Huxleys

On display: Gallery Five

Smalltown Boy (Perth)
2018

The Huxleys

On display: Gallery Five

Self portrait
1948

Klaus Friedeberger

On display: Gallery Five

Self Portrait #2
1947/2007

William Yang, an unknown artist

On display: Gallery Five

William, Randwick
1975/2008

William Yang, Melody Cooper

William in Scholar's Costume
1984/2008

William Yang, Yensoon Tsai

Self Portrait with Light Meter
1987/2007

William Yang

Self Portrait #1
1992/2007

William Yang

My Family in Front of Our Old Home
1992

William Yang

Miscellaneous Obsessions #1, My Living Room, Bondi
2000

William Yang

Self Portrait #5
2008

William Yang, John Fukuda

On display: Gallery Five

William at Queensland University
1968/2008

William Yang, an unknown artist

Ngayulu Minyma Tjanpinya, I am a Tjanpi Woman
2018

Tjunkaya Tapaya OAM, Tjanpi Desert Weavers

Self portrait with goose feathers
2004

William Robinson AO

On display: Gallery Five

Equestrian self portrait
2004

William Robinson AO

On display: Gallery Five

Self-nature is subtle and mysterious - Tree Woman / Woman Tree
2023

Nell, Warwick Edgington, Annette Blair and Belinda Toll, Canberra Glassworks, Crawfords Casting, Eveleigh Works

On display: Gallery Two

Me I am Artist
2022

Marlene Rubuntja, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists

On display: Gallery Five

Arkutja (woman)
2022

Marlene Rubuntja, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists

On display: Gallery Five

Girl with Dillybag full of Bushfood
2022

Marlene Rubuntja, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists

On display: Gallery Five

My Two Lovely Faces Looking at Each Other and Smiling for Love
2022

Rhonda Sharpe, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists

On display: Gallery Five

Girl with Big Stick, Cooloman and Bird
2022

Rhonda Sharpe, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists

On display: Gallery Five

Double Self Portrait in Mirror
c. 1936

Alison Rehfisch

On display: Gallery Six

Study for self portrait
c. 1965

Jean Appleton

Study for self portrait
c. 1965

Jean Appleton

Study for self portrait
c. 1965

Jean Appleton

blood/memory: Brenda & Christopher I (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra; Mara/Ngarrindjeri/Ritharrngu;…

Brenda L Croft

Mīal
2022/2023

Archie Moore

On display: Gallery One

Blow Back
2018

Julie Rrap

On display: Gallery Two

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Browse the portraits

Self portraits

Self portrait 1981

Michael Shannon

Self portrait at easel 1960-1961

Fred Williams

Self portrait with glove 1939

Herbert Badham

In the mirror: self portrait with Joy Hester 1939

Albert Tucker

Self portrait 1992

Rolf Harris

Self portrait 1934

Nora Heysen AM

Self portrait between 1951 and 1953

Janet Dawson

Self portrait 1846

George French Angas

Self portrait, Cyprus 1953

David Potts

David Moore, Corio, Victoria 1942 (printed 2000)

David Moore

Semi self portrait, Hunter Valley 1992 (printed 2000)

David Moore

The New Arrivals at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art 1941

Russell Drysdale

Self portrait in green hues c. 1962

Roland Wakelin

Self portrait 2001

Jeffrey Smart AO

Self portrait late 1930s

Sir William Dargie CBE

Self portrait 1990

Andrew Sibley

Self portrait 1990

Andrew Sibley

Self portrait with pin-up 1965

Richard Larter

Self portrait 1948

Grace Cossington Smith OBE

Self portrait 2002

Barry Humphries

Self portrait 1990

Anne Zahalka

Self portrait c. 1934

Stella Bowen

Self portrait (Full Length in front of Easel) 1901-1902

Hugh Ramsay

Self portrait in reflection 1973

Lewis Morley

Nude self portrait 1977

Lewis Morley

The Last Picture Show (Lewis Morley and Henry Talbot) 1999

Lewis Morley

Self portrait with gladioli 1922

George Lambert

Olly's Trolly, Freddie's Brushes 1989

Murray Walker

The Jester (self portrait) 1923

Lionel Lindsay

Self portrait in plus fours c. 1939 (cast 2003)

Lyndon Dadswell CMG

Self portrait c. 1984

Albert Tucker

I think of my Culture 1989

Jeffrey Samuels

On Reflection 2004

Hossein Valamanesh, Angela Valamanesh

Self portrait 1999

Rick Amor

Self portrait 2004

Peter Russell-Clarke

Self portrait c. 1911

Frank Hurley OBE

Self portrait 1976 (printed 2005)

David Malin

Self portrait 1988

Sidney Nolan

Self portrait 1950

Eric Westbrook

Self portrait
1981

Self portrait at easel
1960-1961

Self portrait with glove
1939

In the mirror: self portrait with Joy Hester
1939

Self portrait
1992

Self portrait
1934

Self portrait
between 1951 and 1953

Self portrait
1846

Self portrait, Cyprus
1953

David Moore, Corio, Victoria
1942 (printed 2000)

Semi self portrait, Hunter Valley
1992 (printed 2000)

The New Arrivals at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art
1941

Self portrait in green hues
c. 1962

Self portrait
2001

Self portrait
late 1930s

Self portrait
1990

Self portrait
1990

Self portrait with pin-up
1965

Self portrait
1948

Self portrait
2002

Self portrait
1990

Self portrait
c. 1934

Self portrait (Full Length in front of Easel)
1901-1902

Self portrait in reflection
1973

Nude self portrait
1977

The Last Picture Show (Lewis Morley and Henry Talbot)
1999

Self portrait with gladioli
1922

Olly's Trolly, Freddie's Brushes
1989

The Jester (self portrait)
1923

Self portrait in plus fours
c. 1939 (cast 2003)

Self portrait
c. 1984

I think of my Culture
1989

On Reflection
2004

Self portrait
1999

Self portrait
2004

Self portrait
c. 1911

Self portrait
1976 (printed 2005)

Self portrait
1988

Self portrait
1950

Self portrait
1949

Self portrait with Spots and Veins
2003

Disillusion self portrait
1983

"The determined" Self portrait
2002

Self portrait
1911

Self portrait
2005

Self portrait
1894

Self portrait
c. 1930

Bruce Petty
2008

Me
1992

Self portrait
1971

Self portrait
1858-1860

Potters' Portrait Pot
2009

Self portrait
c. 1985

Self portrait
c. 1849

Self portrait
c. 1948

12 Untitled Self Portraits (Set 3)
1990

The photographer's shadow (Olive Cotton and Max Dupain)
c. 1935 (printed 1999)

Self portrait
1909

Self portrait, Paris
1989

Self portrait
1984-1985

Self portrait among the ant hills
1950

The rock and the flies
1952

Mr Thake - Dr So and So
1959

Epstein/Einstein? I can never remember!
1962

Sunshine and rain, Lygon Street
1964

Desert Island
1967

Figure in a rocky landscape
1965

The chase
1952

Self portrait, Adil
2009

Self portrait, Malu Sara (deep sea tern)
2010

Study for "Portrait of the artist as an evolving landscape"
1991

Study for self portrait
c. 1965

Self portrait
c. 1940

Robert Rooney, self portrait December 1978
1978 (printed 2012)