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The play’s the thing

Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.

Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018

The Last Paul Mumme Work, 2015

Finalist, DPA 2016

Russell Crowe, 1995 (printed 2016)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Milestones

This month I turn fifty, soI am just now looking rather more closely than usual at Fiona Foley, Steven Heathcote, Brenda Croft, Russell Crowe, Jeff Fenech, Akira Isogawa, Lee Kernaghan, My Le Thi, Shona Wilson and Mark Taylor AO, mindful that they too were 1964 arrivals. 

Richard Tognetti, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012

In the galleries

Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.

International issue

Michael Desmond looks at the history of the Vanity Fair magazine in conjunction with the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008

Off the wall

Good, bad and the ugly

Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.

Famous

Australian photographer Karin Catt has photographed world leaders, a host of rock stars and Oscar-winning compatriots Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, and Cate Blanchett.

9 lives of Karin Catt

Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.

Australian Visit

The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.

Megan Gale, 2002

Gift of the artist 2006

Guy Pearce, 2000 (printed 2004)

Purchased 2005

Russell Crowe, 2001 (printed 2004)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005