Shakespeare to Winehouse open 9:00am–7:00pm on Thu, Fri, Sat from 7 July
Purchased 2022
Gift of the artist 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
If music be the food of love
The Darling Prize is a new annual prize for Australian portrait painters, painting Australian sitters. The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2020
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
Kwon Hyeeun introduces Korean portraits of Kang Sehwang, and five generations of the Kang family.
I work with portraiture as a way to explore the nuances and complexities of contemporary selfhood and subjectivity.
Aimee Board ventures within and beyond to consider two remarkable new Gallery acquisitions.
Max Dupain's unknown portrait subjects, phrenologist Madame Sibly, Indigenous-European relationships, Thomas Gainsborough and more.
A focus on Indigenous-European relationships underpins Facing New Worlds. By Kate Fullagar.
Johanna McMahon revels in history and mystery in pursuit of a suite of unknown portrait subjects.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019
Purchased 2019