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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.

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Portrait of Johnson Pilton Walker,
Inside the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra,
25 Hours 31 minutes, 22-23 May 2009 by Ingvar Kenne

Johnson Pilton Walker

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Sydney-based practice Johnson Pilton Walker designed the new National Portrait Gallery building.

An example of the wheelchairs available at the Gallery

Book a wheelchair or walker

Wheelchairs and walkers are available at no charge. Please ask our friendly staff at the Information Desk or book here online. Wheelchair access is available in our public spaces, with lift access from the underground to the public ground level.

Untitled, 2013

by Brett Walker

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Finalist, MDPA 2013

The silent spectre of motion (Le spectre silencieux du movement), 2012 by Bridget Walker, video: 6 minutes

The silent spectre of motion (Le spectre silencieux du movement), 2012

by Bridget Walker

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Finalist, iD2012

The Tangles

The Tangles

According to an 1981 Australian Women’s Weekly profile of fast bowler Dennis Lillee, a moustache was a ‘compulsory’ accessory for sportsmen.

Sir George Grey

Nothing black and white about the Greys

It's Complicated

Marriage: a prolonged disaster

Judith Wright with Barbara Blackman

Friendship’s rhyme and reason

Nearest & Dearest

Poetic trio

Gordon Darling Hall, National Portrait Gallery

Architecture

Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker

David Malouf

2012-13 Acquisition Fund

The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.

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Mal Meninga

Mal Meninga, 2018

by Peter Hudson

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Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018

The Boys Next Door

Oz Punk

Sends a permanent shiver down my spine

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In 1976, without having been blooded on the Sydney or Melbourne pub circuit, The Saints recorded a single – ‘(I’m) Stranded’ – earning them the distinction of releasing a punk single before The Sex Pistols did.

Joan Sutherland

All the world's a stage

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Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe

Bree Pickering in front of Mikala Dwyer, Chromakinda, 2022, installation view, Murray Art Museum Albury

Bree Pickering appointed Director of the National Portrait Gallery

7 February 2023

The Board of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia announced the appointment of Bree Pickering to the role of Director.

Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground

Protest!

How can we dance when our earth is turning?

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Rock’s raw potency made it the ideal medium for fomenting protest. The 1970s, 80s and onwards saw calls for social and environmental justice ring out through song.

Animation 1 from the series Hereinbefore, 2012 by Laura Moore

iD Digital Portraiture Award winner announced

Archived media releases 2012

The inaugural winner of the $10,000 iD Digital Portraiture Award was announced this morning at the National Portrait Gallery.

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