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Dressing for dinner, 1992

Davida Allen

Portrait, oil on plywood

Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The Hon. Bill Hayden AC

Biography

The Hon Bill Hayden AC (1933‒2023) was Governor-General of Australia from 1989 to 1996 and Leader of the Opposition from 1977 to 1983.

1 portrait in the collection

Dallas Hawes

Biography

Dallas Hawes was about 18 years old when he painted this portrait of Dr Law.

1 portrait in the collection

Dr Phillip Law, 1974

Dallas Hawes

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Dr Phillip Law 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Rose Byrne (b. 1979), actor, was raised in the Sydney suburbs of Balmain and Newtown, and joined the Australian Theatre for Young People at the age of eight.

1 portrait in the collection

Bob Hawke

Biography

Robert James Lee (Bob) Hawke (1929-2019) moved with his family from South Australia to Perth in 1939.

9 portraits in the collection

Gough... maintain the rage!, 1976

Frank Hinder

Portrait, fibre-tipped pen on paper

Gift of Enid Hawkins 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Bill Leak, 1999

Simon Obarzanek

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002

Rose Byrne, 2001 (printed 2004)

Karin Catt

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2005

Bob McTavish

Biography

Bob McTavish began surfing in Queensland at the age of twelve - and for decades, he has written, he slept in cars, eating bread, bananas and the occasional spider and surfing at every opportunity.

2 portraits in the collection

Charles Teo, 2012

Adam Chang (Hong Jun Zhang)

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Eleonora Triguboff 2013

Whitlam & Snedden, 1974

Frank Hinder

Portrait, fibre-tipped pen on paper

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

Charles Teo AM

Biography

Charles Teo AM (b. 1957) is a neurosurgeon. Born in Sydney, where he attended Scots College and graduated in medicine and surgery from the University of New South Wales, he worked for some years at the Children’s Medical Center, Dallas, Texas and was Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas.

1 portrait in the collection

Erin Phillips OAM

Biography

Erin Phillips OAM (b. 1985), elite athlete, played professional basketball for fifteen years before becoming the stand-out player of the AFLW's first five seasons.

1 portrait in the collection

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

Previous exhibition, 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.

Primed

Some Prime Ministers

Previous exhibition, 2019

Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.

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

For the boys

Magazine article by Alistair McGhie, 2011

The photographs from Matthew Sleeth's tour of duty series look more like advertisements than images of war.

The story of us

Magazine article by Penelope Grist, 2022

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

Getting a head

Magazine article by Alexandra Roginski, 2015

Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.

A non-material and non-physical portrait

Lecture, 21 May 2011

General content

Inner Worlds features the recently commissioned portrait of world-renowned philosopher of consciousness David Chalmers by Melbourne-based artist Nick Mourtzakis.

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Dressing for dinner, 1992

The Hon. Bill Hayden AC

Dallas Hawes

Dr Phillip Law, 1974

Nova Gina takes a smoke break, 2019

Jezeril II, 2014

Rose Byrne

Bob Hawke

Gough... maintain the rage!, 1976

Bill Leak, 1999

Rose Byrne, 2001 (printed 2004)

Bob McTavish

Charles Teo, 2012

Whitlam & Snedden, 1974

Charles Teo AM

Erin Phillips OAM

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

Primed

For the boys

The story of us

Getting a head

A non-material and non-physical portrait