







Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018

Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe

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.

The Board of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia announced the appointment of Bree Pickering to the role of Director.

National Portrait Gallery Director Bree Pickering leads the executive team.

Rock’s raw potency made it the ideal medium for fomenting protest. The 1970s, 80s and onwards saw calls for social and environmental justice ring out through song.


Leo Schofield introduces the exhibition, Masters of fare: chefs, winemakers, providores.

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.