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Grow the Portrait Gallery of Australia
9 June 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The Portrait Gallery is calling for contributions to support in the acquisition of superb portraits for the national collection.
New partnership with Stripy Sock
5 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016
We have a new partnership with Canberra-based leading mobile application development consultancy, Stripy Sock.
A head for business and a heart for love
Lust
For love, not money
The last bushrangers
It's Complicated
Brothers in harms
Arthur Boyd’s Mysterious Eyes
6 May 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled a focus exhibition of captivating portraits by renowned artist Arthur Boyd, titled Mysterious eyes: Arthur Boyd portraits from 1945.
Tough & Tender Media Release
14 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.
David McAllister to join National Portrait Gallery collection
26 April 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister AM will join the Portrait Gallery’s national collection in a newly-commissioned portrait taken by illustrious Australian photographer, Peter Brew-Bevan.
She saved his life. He showed her painting.
Nearest & Dearest
Leaders, painters, friends
If you love movies, you’ll love Starstruck!
8 August 2017
Archived media releases 2017
In an unprecedented partnership, the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) present a new star-studded exhibition, Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.
Who is Lillie Roberts?
Devotion
Talented wife for a talented husband
To coin a (farewell) phrase
Devotion
A penny for their thoughts
Street fare
General content
The late Georgian and early Victorian working classes often bought their food in ale-houses, chop-houses and ‘penny pie shops’, or purchased their meals day after day in the streets.
Artist in residence creates portraits using brainwave zctivity
29 June 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Digital media artist, George Khut, is creating a spectacular form of digital portraiture involving public participants.
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board
Allow me to introduce...
General content
These full-length figures in watercolour, gouache and pencil date mostly from the 1820s, and almost all come from the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.
Philanthropic donations enable otherwise unobtainable acquisition
20 October 2016
Archived media releases 2016
A magnanimous portrait of Helena Rubinstein has been acquired for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.