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When birds no longer sing

Emma Kindred looks at the career of Joan Ross, whose work subverts colonial imagery and its legacy with the clash of fluorescent yellow.

Self portrait

阿谊 (ah Yi)

Jimmy Melrose and his mother Hilda Westley, 1934

Gift of Sally Douglas 2024

Artists at home

Karina Dias Pires shares the stories behind her portraits of women artists in their creative spaces.

Time and light

This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.

Safe space

Amy Middleton on the power of portraiture in promoting inclusivity and connecting with intersectionality and diversity in all its forms.

David Malouf

Recorded 2016

Tim Flannery

Recorded 2016

Some women you may not know

‘Everybody’s lives are built by so many influences, and for me, it is writers, artists and activists who have influenced how I think about the world.’

Christine Audrey Pecket painting 'Self Portrait in a Brown Coat at the Sydney Technical College', 1937

Gift of Suzanne Playfoot 2023

Moving still

Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.

The story of us

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

Christian Waller, c. 1920s

Gift of an anonymous donor 2022

Self Portrait #2, 1947/2007

Purchased 2022

William at Queensland University, 1968/2008

Gift of the artist 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.