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Ginger Riley at the Limmen River, Northern Territory, 1992 (printed 2013)

Gift of Helga Leunig 2013

Tim Riley, Santa Teresa Mission, near Alice Springs, 1965 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Beauty and strength

Influential Indigenous Australian artist Michael Riley (1960 - 2004) created these portrait photographs between 1984 and 1990 - they stand as an intricately connected group portrait of the vibrant urban-based Indigenous arts community in Sydney's inner-west at a formative moment.

Dorothy, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Hetti, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Delores, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Darrell, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Telphia, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Kristina, 1984 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Kristina, 1986 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Tracey, 1986 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Djon, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Avril and Miya, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Avril, 1986 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Sophisticated and glamorous

Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.

Maria, 1986 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Linda and Binni, 1984 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Kath & Kim

A.J. Fischer, 1920s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Michael Riley's portraits

Linda Burney, Brenda Croft and Darrell Sibosado share memories of Michael Riley and his photographic practice.

Charles and Adam, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Joe and Brenda, 1990 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Daniel Riley choreographing Hit the Floor Together with QL2 dancers

Look at moy!

Foxy ladies’ fame, friendship

Portrait 47

This issue features Michael Riley, TextaQueen, Thea Proctor, Jean Appleton, In the flesh, digital identity and more.

Observation Point

Portrait photography, by definition, is a collaboration. It is also the grandest of lies masquerading as the ultimate truth.

A photographer’s glamorous friends

Community, arts, activism

Now and then

Photographed 35 years apart, these two portraits offer both a timeline of, and thematic thread for, Maria (Polly) Cutmore’s life – from a young woman to a respected Gomeroi Elder.

Time regained (the assistant), 2008

The hoodie

Of human clay

The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.

Dancer

From letting loose in the loungeroom to enthralling audiences on stage, this exhibition celebrates dance and dancers.

Magda Szubanski, 1997 (printed 2021)

Purchased with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AC 2021

I think of my Culture, 1989

Gift of John Lane 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Two gentlemen celebrating a birthday (Frank Watters and Geoffrey Legge), 1974

Gift of Frank Watters OAM 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters, 1999

Purchased 2021

Billy Hughes bottle stopper, 1911-1921

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

Rod Laver,

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003

Reveries

Featuring works by Australian and New Zealand photographers from the late 1970s up to the present day Reveries focuses on images made in the presence of or consciousness of death.

The Movie Star (David Gulpilil), 1985

Gift of the artist 1998. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Geoffrey Legge and Frank Watters, 2008

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010

2012-13 Acquisition Fund

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

The stately lotus

I spent much of my summer holiday at D’Omah, on the outskirts of Yogyakarta. Lotus and waterlilies sprout in extraordinary profusion in artful ponds amid palms and deep scarlet ginger flowers.

Reveries

The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.

Angkor Wat

Nothing quite prepares the first-time visitor to Cambodia for the scale and grandeur of the monuments of the ancient Khmer civilisation of Angkor.

2020 Annual Appeal

In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.

Time and light

This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.

blood/memory: Brenda & Christopher I (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra; Mara/Ngarrindjeri/Ritharrngu; Anglo-Australian/Chinese/German/Irish/Scottish) 2021, 2022 (printed 2023)

Purchased 2023

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.

Illuminating history

Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2022

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.

Primed

Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.

The 'I' in Indigenous art

Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.

Annual Appeal

You are who?

Joanna Gilmour reflects on merging collections and challenging traditional assumptions around portraiture in WHO ARE YOU.

Fiona McMonagle

Fiona aims to create a dangerous situation with a flood of water on the paper, forcing each work to the point where it can fail, and then rescuing it. 

Splendid, many-splendoured

Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.

Home truths

Despite once expressing a limited interest in the self portrait, the idea of it has figured strongly in much of Tracey Moffatt's work and has done so in some of her most distinctive and compelling images.

The more things change...

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

The silent partner

One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.

Some prime ministers

Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.