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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

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Renae Saxby

Renae Saxby

This is Cindy Rostron. Her father Victor Rostron's art is on the roof, and we're out around Bulman, in Central Arnhem Land.

Mrs Woods and ‘Ere

Person and Place

General content

The connection between land and identity holds great significance in Australia. While for First Nations people, person and place are intertwined both culturally and spiritually, forming an intrinsic union between Country and self, stories of colonisation and migration are also deeply bound to this nation.

Trukanini

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Activists

Google Arts and Culture

Learning resources

Explore our complex history and those who have been living in Australia, connecting with the land and telling their stories for 60,000 years. For year 5 – 8 students.

Nell standing in her workshop next to a cross legged sculpture

Nell

Artists and Collectives

Nell is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land in the Eora Nation, Sydney. Her work fuses mythological, spiritual and popular cultural iconography.

National Portrait Gallery staff creating a rainbow for WorldPride 2023

Who we are and what we do

Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023–25

The National Portrait Gallery is an award-winning building situated within Canberra’s Parliamentary Triangle, the symbolic centre of Australia’s capital city on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land.

Bern Emmerichs video: 4 minutes

Bern Emmerichs

Contributing artists

Born: 1961, Melbourne
Works: Melbourne

Mandawuy Yunupingu

Resilience

Indigenous leadership

General content

Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Neville Bonner, Lowitja O'Donoghue, Mandawuy Yunupingu and Adam Goodes

Lola Montes

Bringing down a kingdom

The king and the showgirl

Jane Franklin

Jane’s conviction

Stand by your man

Groups of four and three people on a theatre stage in front of a dark curtain

stArts with D Performance Ensemble

Artists and Collectives

Based in Mparntwe/Alice Springs and the Central Desert Region, stArts with D disability-led performance ensemble collaborates, creates, and presents original works celebrating identity, place and belonging.

Latai Taumoepeau holding a blanket to her body while standing on the platform at a train station

Latai Taumoepeau

Artists and Collectives

Latai Taumoepeau, based on Gadigal Country, makes live-art-work drawing her faivā (temporal practice) from her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga, centres Tongan philosophies to make visible the impact of climate crisis in the Pacific.

Hetti

A photographer’s glamorous friends

Nearest & Dearest

Community, arts, activism

Tim Fairfax AC

Tim Fairfax, 2018

by Russell Shakespeare

General content

Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018

Fiona McMonagle video: 5 minutes

Fiona McMonagle

Contributing artists

Born: 1977, Letterkenny, Ireland
Works: Melbourne

Tim Flannery

Provocative talks on Saturdays in September

Archived media releases 2016

Join The Saturday Paper’s chief political correspondent, Karen Middleton, for A Month of Saturdays – afternoon conversations bringing current affairs experts to the Gallery for engaging, real-time discussions about the topics that matter.

Lee Kernaghan near Broken Hill

Top of the pops to golden guitars

General content

The Seekers, John Farnham and Lee Kernaghan

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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people.

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