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Ralph Heimans
Portraiture. Power. Influence.
Previous exhibition, 2024
The exhibition will feature some of the most significant portraits in the artist’s career to date, from early major works such as his painting of HM Queen Mary of Denmark through to his most recent.
Ralph Heimans AM
Biography
Sydney-based painter Ralph Heimans AM (b. 1970) is one of the world's foremost contemporary portraitists, having created a body of work that has expanded and redefined the possibilities of what is sometimes perceived as an inflexibly traditional genre.
19 portraits in the collection
Study for HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark (compositional study)
Ralph Heimans AM
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Observation point
Magazine article by Ralph Heimans AM, 2018
As I prepared for my recent retrospective at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark’s National Portrait Gallery, I was struck with the feeling of looking back at a visual diary of the past 30 years.
Margaret Atwood: The 'abysm of time …" (The Tempest)
Ralph Heimans AM
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Dame Judi Dench
Ralph Heimans AM
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Gloves off (Tom Uren), 1996
Ralph Heimans AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
The Architecture of Music (Vladimir Ashkenazy), 2011
Ralph Heimans AM
Portrait, oil on canvas
Gift of Michael Crouch AC and Shanny Crouch 2017
Human encounters
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2023
Joanna Gilmour takes us behind the scenes of some of Ralph Heimans’ best-known portraits of royalty, heads of state and cultural icons.
Study for Portrait of a Musician
Ralph Heimans AM
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The Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd AC
Ralph Heimans AM
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Portrait of Professor Derek Freeman, 1996
Ralph Heimans AM
Portrait, pencil and pastel on paper
Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001
Study "Radical Restraint: A Portrait of Michael Kirby", 1998
Ralph Heimans AM
Portrait, pencil on paper
Gift of the artist 2001
Study "Radical Restraint: A Portrait of Michael Kirby", 1998
Ralph Heimans AM
Portrait, pencil and crayon on paper
Gift of the artist 2001
Study "Radical Restraint: A Portrait of Michael Kirby", 1998
Ralph Heimans AM
Portrait, pencil and crayon on paper
Gift of the artist 2001
Study "Radical Restraint: A Portrait of Michael Kirby", 1998
Ralph Heimans AM
Portrait, pencil, watercolour and ink on paper
Gift of the artist 2001