© National Portrait Gallery 2025
King Edward Terrace, Parkes
Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
Phone +61 2 6102 7000
ABN: 54 74 277 1196
阿谊 (ah Yi)
Shelley Xue
Image
Samuel Shelley
Biography
Samuel Shelley entered the Royal Academy Schools as a seventeen year-old in 1774 and exhibited at the Academy regularly from this time until 1804.
2 portraits in the collection
Shelley Reys, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Lieutenant Shortland, published 1789
W Sherwin after S Shelley
Portrait, engraving on paper
Purchased 2010
Portrait of Captain Edward Riou, 1801
James Heath after Samuel Shelley
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Lieutenant Watts, 1789
John Sherwin after Samuel Shelley
Portrait, stipple engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
We were there shifting space, Shelley, 2021-2022
Rozalind Drummond
Image
Art Handlers' Award 2024
General content
This year, Shelley Xue 阿谊 (ah Yi) 2024 has been selected the winner for the 2024 NPPP Art Handlers’ award.
The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy
Visual Arts & ATSI (lower primary)
Event, Selected days from Monday 9 June
Join the National Portrait Gallery for an engaging 45-minute online session where lower primary students explore the NAIDOC theme The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy.
The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy
Visual Arts & ATSI (upper primary)
Event, Selected days from Monday 9 June
Join the National Portrait Gallery for an engaging 45-minute online session where upper primary students explore the NAIDOC theme The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024
Previous exhibition, 2024
The National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024 celebrates established and emerging artistic talent from across the country.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022
Previous exhibition, 2022
The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
Safe space
Magazine article by Amy Middleton, 2023
Amy Middleton on the power of portraiture in promoting inclusivity and connecting with intersectionality and diversity in all its forms.
The art of multiplicity
Magazine article by Meredith Hughes, 2019
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
Regarding Henrys
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2015
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.