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Maggie Tabberer

Maggie Tabberer AO

Maggie Tabberer AO (1936-2024), designer, writer, editor, publicist and television presenter, is one of Australia's best-known personalities.

1 portrait in the collection

Maggie Tabberer

Maggie Tabberer

Maggie Tabberer

Maggie Tabberer, 2015

Alana Landsberry

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of Alana Landsberry and Bauer Media Australia 2019

Maggie

Maggie Beer AO

Maggie Beer AO (b. 1945) is a cook, restaurateur, businesswoman and media personality.

1 portrait in the collection

Maggie

Behind the scenes

Del Kathryn Barton’s portrait of Maggie Beer

Magazine article, 2024

It was a riot of colour in the Gallery as we welcomed Del Kathryn Barton’s portrait of Maggie Beer AO into the collection.

Maggie Beer and Del Kathryn Barton

Maggie Beer and Del Kathryn Barton

'I wanted the whole picture to be pulsating with energy'

Maggie Beer and Del Kathryn Barton on symbolism and beauty.

Maggie

Maggie

Maggie

Maggie, 2023

Del Kathryn Barton

Portrait, synthetic polymer paint and pigment liner on French linen

Commissioned with funds provided by Hayley Baillie and James Baillie 2023

Maggie Beer AO and Del Kathryn Barton

In Conversation

Maggie Beer AO and Del Kathryn Barton

Join us with Maggie Beer AO, cook restaurateur and businesswoman and Del Kathryn Barton, artist, in celebration of the National Portrait Gallery's most recent commissioned portrait, Maggie, 2023 by Del Kathryn Barton.

Junior Maggie, 2009 by Warwick Baker

Junior Maggie, 2009

by Warwick Baker

Maggie

Maggie Beer

Previous exhibition, 2023

Our most recent commission, the portrait of Maggie Beer by Del Kathryn Barton both combines a statuesque almost devotional likeness with a spell-binding and dream-like personalised symbology of the sitter.

Georgie Swift

Georgie Swift

Georgie Swift (1920-2008), journalist, publicist and chatelaine, was born Georgette Marie Hiro Matsui to a French-born mother and Japanese father in Sydney after the First World War.

1 portrait in the collection

Athol Shmith

Athol Shmith

Athol Shmith

Athol Shmith, 1985

Michel Lawrence

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

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Simon Griffiths

Simon Griffiths has been acclaimed in numerous publications as Australia's leading food and garden photographer.

1 portrait in the collection

Albert Namatjira

The National Portrait Gallery Collection

Current exhibition

Browse the full list of portraits from the collection that are on view now.

Cheong Liew

Cheong Liew OAM

Cheong Liew - whom the US magazine Food and Wine recently named one of the 10 'hottest chefs alive' - learnt the basics of cooking in his native Malaysia, in the Kuala Lumpur kitchen of his grandmother.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait 70

Portrait 70

Kim Leutwyler on her portraits of the LGBTQIA+ community, Oliver Giles chats to Polly Borland, Gunggandji artist Simone Arnol, and Andrew Quilty's new book.

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl

Portrait of Ruth Cracknell as the Sibyl, 1995

Rosemary Valadon

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased 2000

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