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Gift of the Bardas families, in memory of Sandra Bardas OAM and David Bardas AO 2024. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Directors of the National Portrait Gallery from 1998 to today.
Australian portraiture of the mid-twentieth century was rich with the influence of European modernism, exemplified by the work of artists including Arthur Boyd, Judy Cassab and Clifton Pugh.
Penelope Grist delves into an insightful portraiture exhibition that asks: How do three artists see the same sitter?
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Offering portraiture in all its flavours: painting, photography, drawing, textiles, printmaking and sculpture, this exhibition is a feast for minds and eyes.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Recorded 1965
Gift of Jennifer Armstrong 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gael Newton looks at Australian photography, film and the sixties through the novel lens of Mark Strizic.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Tom Uren's family 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2016
The Chairman, Board, Director and staff mourn the loss of the National Portrait Gallery's inaugural director.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.