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Essie Coffey (Bush Queen) and Orlando Gemes, 1978 (printed 2003)

Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Us Mob, Rock Against Racism Concert, Paddington Town Hall, 1980 (printed 2021)

Purchased 2021

Us Mob, Paddington Town Hall, 1980 (printed 2021)

Purchased 2021

Bob Maza, 1994 (printed 2003)

Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Jimmy Little, 2003

Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Thanacoupie, 1981

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004

Kevin Gilbert and Joe in discussion outside Anti-Bicentennial and Treaty Meeting Balmain Town Hall, Sydney, 1987

Gift of the artist 2010

Jeffrey Samuels, Boomalli workshop, 2003

Gift of the artist 2010

Poet Robert Adamson at Parsley Bay, 2008

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Bill Reid, 1979

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

Justine Saunders, 1994 (printed 2003)

Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Matilda House presides at the first Welcome to Country, 2008 (printed 2009)

Purchased 2009

David Gulpilil, c. 1981

Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Oodgeroo Noonuccal at Moongalba, 1982

Purchased 2004

Oodgeroo Noonuccal at Moongalba Stradbroke Island (her sitting down place)1982, 1982

Gift of the artist 2009

Mum Shirl (Mrs Shirley Smith), 1988

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

Wandjuk Marika, 1979

Purchased 2004

Dr Roberta Sykes and Naomi, 1994

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

Bart Willoughby (No Fixed Address) at 'The National Land Rights Action' march, 1982

Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Gary Foley, Invasion Day - We Have Survived, 1988

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

Chicka Dixon, 1980

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

Kumantjayi Perkins at the Roma Forum, Brisbane, 1982

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

Tom E Lewis [Balang T E Lewis], n.d.

Purchased 2021

Fiona Foley in her studio at Hervey Bay, 1994

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

After Ophelia: Fiona Foley at Lake Mackenzie, Fraser Island (Referencing Ophelia by John Everett Millais), 1994

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2008

Yami Lester speaks at Uluru Handback Ceremony, 1985 (printed 2003)

Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Senator Aden Ridgeway, 2003

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

Marcia Langton, 2013

Purchased 2015

Marcia Langton, 1982

Purchased 2004

Ali Cobby Eckermann and Lionel Fogarty at the Hawkesbury River, 2014

Purchased 2015

Cate Blanchett and Ernie Dingo, 1994

Purchased 2004

George Burarrwanga, Warumpi Band, 1984 (printed 2021)

Purchased 2021

Warumpi Band, Sydney Opera House, 1984 (printed 2021)

Purchased 2021

Linda Burney MLA Canturbury and Rick Farley at home, Marrickville, 2003

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

The Hon Gough Whitlam, Ossie Cruse and Michael Anderson, 1981 (printed 2003)

Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Tiga Bayles with No Fixed Address at the People for Nuclear Disarmament rally on Palm Sunday, 27 March 1983, 1983

Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

No Fixed Address from 'Rock Against Racism' concert, Redfern, 1980

Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Burnum Burnum and Guboo Ted Thomas, 1984

Purchased 2004

Proof

Portraits from The Movement is the first comprehensive survey of photographs from the Juno Gemes archive, which has supported the Aboriginal struggle for justice in Australia from 1978 to the present day.

Powerful energy

Dr Christopher Chapman explores the symbolism in the portrait commission of Marcia Langton by Brook Andrew.

Portraits for Posterity

Drawn from some of the many donations made to the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Portraits for Posterity pays homage both to the remarkable (and varied) group of Australians who are portrayed in the portraits and the generosity of the many donors who have presented them to the Gallery.

Selfhood transcended

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

Activating the space

Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.

Open Air

Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them.

Portrait Donors

Giving and getting

The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.

Past present

Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.

First Ladies

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