Purchased 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013
Finalist, MDPA 2013
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Purchased 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006
Florrie Forde (1875–1940), singer and music hall performer, was born in Melbourne and was sixteen when she sang publicly for the first time, in Sydney, in late 1891.
9 portraits in the collection
Thomas Coleman Durkin trained at the Williamstown School of Design and started work in Melbourne as an apprentice to an engraver and then a jeweller.
27 portraits in the collection
Animated is the National Portrait Gallery's first online exhibition.
Ellyse Perry (b.1990) has represented Australia in both cricket and soccer, making her the only current dual international in Australian women’s sport.
2 portraits in the collection
Facing Memory: Headspace 4 provides us with valuable insights into the thoughts, creative processes and art-making practices of secondary students from Year 7 to Year 12 from sixty-two schools in the Australian Capital Territory, regional New South Wales and Victoria
The National Portrait Gallery recently announced the finalists for the Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2013.
Originally conceived as an anthropological record, Percy Leason’s powerful 1934 portraits of Victorian Aboriginal people are today considered to be a highlight of 20th century Australian portraiture
At the end of a summer break one is tempted to say that there is nothing much to report. Isn’t one restful holiday very much like another?