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Atef, 2013

John no. 11, 2010

The Hermit, 2016

Les and Eileen, 2010

Kill them with kindness, 2006

The spirit walker, 2017

The 70 year old jetty jumper, 2011

Sumbawa Pride - Life on a Boat With Eleven Kids, 2018

Anna Wintour

Her whole world now

Alex Carmichael, Chairman of Santos - Ansett Director,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001

The Hon. Alex Chernov AC KC, 2019

Gift of twenty members of the Victorian Bar 2020

Study for a portrait of Alex Wodak, 2003

Gift of Dr Jack Wodak 2006. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Portrait of Alex Dimitriades, 2005

Gift of the artist 2006. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Yellow portrait (portrait of Alex Jelinek), 1955

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Paul and James Bryans 2015. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Erin Phillips OAM, 2022

Gift of the artist 2022

Ken Wyatt, 2019 (printed 2020)

Purchased 2022

Andrew Steiner, 2020 (printed 2021)

Gift of the artist 2021

Former prime ministers of Australia, 2014

Sir Percy Spender, 1981

Gift of the artist and the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party of Australia 2004

Fugue in Yellow

Roger Benjamin explores the intriguing union of Lina Bryans and Alex Jelinek.

Painter John Brack with Professor Alex Mitchell and Sir Garfield Barwick, c. 1977

Gift of the Jozef Vissel 2015

Alex Miller, novelist, 2022

Gift of the artist 2022

The Hon. Alex Chernov AC QC, 2019

Alex, 2018

Alex and Doug Dunn, 2013

Alex Perry, 2016

Alex Miller, 1992

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Alex Miller, 1992

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

The choices of a modern woman

When opposites attract

Alex Frayne

An interview with the photographer.

Sketch portrait of Sir Alex Onslow, 1896

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2006

Hong Fu

My subject, he is a writer. He is a big name, very famous writer, Alex Miller, age 85.

Alexandra Schepisi, 2011

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters, 2008

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019

The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.

Darling Portrait Prize 2022

The Darling Portrait Prize is a biennial national prize for Australian portrait painting honouring the legacy of Mr L Gordon Darling AC CMG (1921-2015). The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.

The making of SKIN in Bare

Responding to Bare, Canberra Youth Theatre in partnership with the Gallery presented a performance that explores identity.

Claudia Karvan on the set of Love My Way,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2007

Textiles Scientist Voted the People’s Favourite

The black and white portrait of an elderly woman with sidelong glance and irreverent, contemplative smile has taken out the people’s choice award in this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Christos Tsiolkas, 1998 (printed 2009)

Purchased 2009

Christos Tsiolkas, 1998 (printed 2009)

Purchased 2009

Desert Island Discs

I agonized over the choice of four songs to take with me to the ABC Studios for Alex Sloan’s Canberra 666 afternoon program, a sort of iteration of the old BBC Desert Island Discs.

Headspace 4

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

Headspace 7

Headspace 7: Me and My Place, the seventh in the National Portrait Gallery's series of student exhibitions, will be presented at Commonwealth Place. Me and My Place is the curatorial theme for the 2006 exhibition.

Myles Nelson

It was definitely a candid encounter as was the expression on the face. It was constructed insofar as the image was deliberately taken from a distance so as to minimize intrusion and to magnify the effect of the image.

Finalists announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize

The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.

Intense identity

Dr Chistopher Chapman discusses the portrait of Australian author Christos Tsiolkas taken by John Tsiavis.

2021 Annual Appeal

In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

Images for media use will be available from 8 March 2018.

Winner announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019

From an outstanding field of more than 3,000 entries, culminating in a shortlist of 39 exceptional finalists, the Winner and Highly Commended entries for this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize have been named.

Snap chat

2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize judge Anne O’Hehir looks beneath the surface of this year’s entries.

In character on location

A photograph of Claudia Karvan that blends actor, character, photographer and captures the creative collaboration of the television series Love my way. 

Uncommon Australians

This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.

Selfhood transcended

Anne Sanders and Christopher Chapman bring passionate characterisation to Express Yourself, the Portrait Gallery collection exhibition celebrating iconoclastic Australians.

Annual Appeal

NPPP 2012 learning resource

Exploring select works from the NPPP 2012. For secondary students.

Shiny, happy people

Glynis Jones on the Powerhouse’s retrospective of one of Australia’s foremost fashion reportage and social photographers.

The play’s the thing

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

Portrait Donors

The more things change...

Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.

Australia’s great internationalists

Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.

Everybody, look serious

Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.

Mugshots

A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.

The personal and the historical

Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.