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Errol Flynn, 1938 (printed 2008)

Gift of Michael Desmond 2012

Flynn of the Inland, 1955-1956

Purchased 1999

The Flynn

A handsome devil of a mo; sleek; natty; perfectly manicured; alternately rakish and debonair, wicked and agreeable.

Leah Purcell, c. 2000

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004

Albert Namatjira, c. 1954-1958 (printed 2017)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Moonbird boy, 2009

Australians in Hollywood

The exhibition Australians in Hollywood celebrated the achievements of Australians in the highly competitive American film industry.

Claudia Karvan on the set of Love My Way,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2007

The 1890s to the 1940s

Although the tough, weathered, hard-drinking bushmen of the kind mythologised by writers like Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson are popularly associated with the character of late nineteenth century Australia, it was also a time when alternative ideas about identity began to come into play.

Australians in Hollywood

Although perceived to be a recent phenomenon, the 'Aussie invasion' of Hollywood can actually be traced as far back as the early 1900s

The life of Bryant

Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.

The aviatrix

Joanna Gilmour explores the extraordinary life of Australian female aviator Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE

Judy Cassab

The artist's diary profiles six decades of Cassab's work, from the early portrait commissions of the 1950s to later paintings that have helped confirm her eminent place in the canon of Australian portraiture.

Drawn from life

Penelope Grist discovers the rich narratives in Peter Wegner’s series of centenarian portraits.

High & Bligh

Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.

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. 

First Ladies

First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.