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Andrew Quilty
Ben Quilty, 2012
Portrait, inkjet print on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2014
Andrew Quilty
Biography
Andrew Quilty left school after completing Year 10 in 1999, and went to study photography at TAFE, graduating in 2004.
1 portrait in the collection
Ben Quilty
Biography
Ben Quilty (b. 1973), painter, gained bachelor’s degrees in painting and visual communication at Sydney College of the Arts and the University of Western Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Cherry Hood
Marion Borgelt, 2001
Portrait, watercolour on paper
Gift of Marion Borgelt 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Adam Knott
Margaret Olley, 1995
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of The Hammond Care Group 1999
Lewis Morley
Margaret Olley, 1998
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Jeffrey Smart AO
Head study for portrait of Margaret Olley, 1994
Portrait, pencil on paper
Bequest of Nick Enright AM 2004
This is Afghanistan
Magazine article by Andrew Quilty, 2023
Walkley Award-winning photojournalist Andrew Quilty shares an extract from his new book, a powerful visual record of his nine years in Afghanistan.
Michael Desmond
Biography
Michael Desmond worked at the National Portrait Gallery first as Senior Curator from 2006 to 2011 then as Deputy Director until 2012.
Observation point
Magazine article by Ben Quilty, 2010
The Australian painter Ben Quilty discusses his approach to portraiture.
Cherry Hood
Biography
Cherry Hood (b. c. 1950), is an artist well known for her haunting, large-scale images of faces.
3 portraits in the collection
Margaret Olley AC
Biography
Margaret Olley AC (1923-2011), painter, studied art at East Sydney Technical College and the Grande Chaumière in Paris.
6 portraits in the collection
Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford
Biography
Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford (1920/1924–2007), also known as Goowoomji or Guwumji, artist and Gija elder, was born on Bedford Downs Station, near Warmun in Western Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Is the truth of portraiture vested exclusively in likeness?
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2006
Curator Michael Desmond introduces the exhibition Truth and Likeness, an investigation of the importance of likeness to portraiture.
Margaret Seares, 2018
by Cherry Hood
General content
Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
The more things change...
NPPP 2017 exhibition essay
General content
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.