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Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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I AM A NEW WOMAN series, 2024
Alison Alder
Portrait, screen prints on paper
Purchased with donor funds 2024
A stitch in time: Participating in portraiture
About Face article
Author and embroidery enthusiast Emma Batchelor shares her experience of joining a sewing circle with Portrait23: Identity artist Deborah Kelly.
Let’s dance
Magazine article by Emma Batchelor, 2022
Emma Batchelor uncovers the compelling contemporary dance made in response to the works in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
Conversation pieces
Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2025
Curator Emma Kindred shares a glimpse of the creative process behind her selection of works for the National Portrait Gallery’s salon hang.
The art of dress
Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2023
Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.
Emma Tear Tack, 2017
Pamela See
Portrait, papercut silhouette drawing
Purchased 2019
When birds no longer sing
Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2024
Emma Kindred looks at the career of Joan Ross, whose work subverts colonial imagery and its legacy with the clash of fluorescent yellow.
Shared affinities
Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred and Isobel Parker Philip, 2025
Emma Kindred and Isobel Parker Philip tease out the uncanny parallels between artists John Brack and Noel McKenna.
Godfrey Miller
Biography
Godfrey Miller (1893-1964) arrived in Australia from his native New Zealand in 1919.
1 portrait in the collection
Lewis Miller
Biography
Lewis Miller (b. 1959), artist, won the Archibald Prize in 1998 with one of his many portraits of fellow artist Allan Mitelman, and has been a finalist seventeen times.
4 portraits in the collection
Alexander Miller
Biography
Alex Miller (b. 1936), one of Australia’s most decorated and popular authors, migrated from England to Australia on his own as a sixteen-year-old.
3 portraits in the collection
Jacques Miller AC
Biography
Jacques Miller AC (b. 1931), immunologist, spent his early childhood in Shanghai and Lausanne before coming to Sydney with his parents at the age of ten.
2 portraits in the collection
Keith Miller
Biography
Keith Miller MBE (1919-2004) was Australia's greatest cricketing all-rounder.
1 portrait in the collection
In Profile
Emily Hunt
Magazine article by Isobel Parker Philip and Dr Emma Kindred, 2025
Isobel Parker Philip and Emma Kindred delve into Emily Hunt’s embellished marionettes and intricate etchings which layer history, memory and magic.
Keith Miller, early 1950s (printed 2008)
Max Dupain OBE
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Purchased 2008
Alex Miller, novelist, 2022
Hong Fu
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of the artist 2022