Explore Thom Roberts' portraiture techniques and ignite your creativity with hands-on activities and follow Thom’s steps to make funny face portraits!
Talented wife for a talented husband
The first solo exhibition for this multidisciplinary, contemporary Australian artist, The Immersive World of Thom Roberts opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 12 April.
This 1910 portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts by Tom Roberts was brought into the Gallery's collection with the assistance of the Acquisition Fund in 2013.
Commissioned with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AO and Dr Helen Nugent AO 2018.
Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018
Commissioned in 2018 with funds raised through the 2020 project
Love versus the law
Explore Thom Roberts' portraiture techniques and ignite your creativity with hands-on activities.
With author and media identity Peter FitzSimons.
The works I chose are Quong Tart by Pamela See, and Monga Khan by Peter Drew.
Born 1983, Chongqing, Sichuan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
The photograph was a brief, candid moment, which unfolded into a portrait. Peter and I were in Silverton, NSW, chatting as our students explored the town. The weak afternoon light suddenly became dramatic and defined, so I asked Peter if I could take his portrait.
The eight photographers represent diverse styles, specialities and career paths. Abigail Varney, Peter Brew-Bevan, Martin Philbey, John Tsiavis, Michelle Day, Julian Kingma, and Giovanni Lovisetto.
In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.
