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Jeff Carter with his dog Annie Rose at Foxground NSW, 2000 (printed 2017)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Jeff Fenech, 1986

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001

Jeff Kennett, 1999

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002

Jeff Fenech and trainer, John Lewis, 1986

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Shining light, 2008

David Carter, London, 2009

Music for the Soul, 2006

Robert Carter, c. 1910

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2012

Sean Godsell, 2009

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Mr and Mrs R. T. Carter, c. 1863

Gift of Mr and Mrs James Bain 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Elizabeth Carter, c. 1920

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2010

Portrait of Johnson Pilton Walker, Inside the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 25 Hours 31 minutes, 22-23rd of May 2009, 2009 (printed 2010)

Purchased with funds provided by the Circle of Friends 2009

Exhibition overview

MDPA judge Jeff Khan, Artistic Director, Performance Space, Sydney.

Sean Godsell Architects

Based in Melbourne, Sean Godsell is known internationally for his distinctive residential architecture.

Saltwater Cowboys, 2013

Portraits + Architecture

This exhibition explores creative process and identity.

WHO ARE YOU

Featuring 130 works across painting, film, photography, screen printing, sculpture, and then some – it explores our inner worlds, outer selves, intimacy, isolation, celebrity and more.

Percy Hobson, 2006

Purchased 2006

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. 

Sharon Anyos

Sharon Anyos, 2006

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006

John Kaldor, 1975 (printed 2002)

Gift of the artist 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Mirror With A Memory

This is the first major exhibition to examine photographic portraiture in Australia, from its beginnings in the early 1840s to the present day

Joan Kirner, c. 1990

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

Les Darcy, c. 1916

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Vanity Fair Portraits

Vanity Fair Portraits traces the birth and evolution of photographic portraiture through the archives of Vanity Fair magazine.

Hottie's Snifter to port

Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.

Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014

Press releases for media.

Thinking about architecture and portraiture

Dr Christopher Chapman describes the experimental exhibition Portraits + Architecture

Flash

Introduction The National Portrait Gallery’s photographic exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus explores various interpretations of Australian sporting men and women.

William Francis King, 'The Flying Pieman', c. 1869

Gift of the family of FW Macpherson 2010

Husbands and Wives

'I have just been to my dressing case to take a peep at you.

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.

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.

The Vanity model

Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.

Selfhood transcended

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

The Avedon effect

Dr Christopher Chapman explores how we can understand Richard Avedon's photographs.  

Sideshow Alley

Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.

Powerful Indigenous women

June Oscar AO lauds three iconic Aboriginal figures in the Portrait Gallery collection who have inspired and influenced her.

Black tie or wombat: How formal should I go?

Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.

No small wonder

Joanna Gilmour describes how artist Sam Leach works on a small scale to grand effect.

Paper, boy

Peter Wilmoth’s boy-journalist toolkit for antagonising an Australian political giant.

The Bare story

Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be

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.

Everybody, look serious

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

The Rothschilds, the Montefiores, and the Victorian Gold Rush

Some years ago my colleague Andrea Wolk Rager and I spent several days in the darkened basement of a Rothschild Bank, inspecting every one of the nearly 700 autochromes created immediately before World War I by the youthful Lionel de Rothschild.