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A potpourri of portraits

Archie 100 curator (and detective) Natalie Wilson’s nationwide search for Archibald portraits unearthed the fascinating stories behind some long-lost treasures.

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.

The story of us

Gallery directors Karen Quinlan and Tony Ellwood talk to Penelope Grist about the NPG and NGV collaborative exhibition, Who Are You: Australian Portraiture.

Give me five

National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan AM nominates her quintet of favourites from the collection, with early twentieth-century ‘selfies’ filling the roster.

The artist and the doctor

Art, war, scandal

Nora Heysen

Recorded 1965

Portrait Donors

Portrait of Lin Bloomfield, 1992

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lin Bloomfield 2017

Hottie's Snifter to port

Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.

Jude Rae

Jude Rae’s high reputation rests on her austere, cerebral still lifes of gas canisters, electric jugs and jars, which she groups and rearranges for paintings that catch their difficult curves and reflections. Her self-portrait’s likewise thoughtfully composed.

In good company

Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.

Hardtmuth 'Hottie' Lahm, 1973

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of June Lahm 2015
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Autumn in Canberra

In Persuasion (1818), a long walk on a fine autumn day affords Anne Elliot an opportunity to ruminate wistfully and at great length upon declining happiness, youth and hope.

H. B. Gullett, c. 1939

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the family in memory of Penne Hackforth-Jones 2014

First Ladies

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

Nora Heysen

Australian artist, Nora Heysen, discusses her childhood and the development of her career.

John Cobley, 1944

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

The considered life

Andrew Sayers asks whether a portrait can truly be the examination of a life.

In the galleries

Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.

101 photographic portraits

Pat Corrigan's generous gift of 100 photographic portraits by Greg Weight.

To Look Within

This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present

Depth of Field

The exhibition Depth of Field displays a selection of portrait photographs that reflect the strength and diversity of Australian achievement.

Depth of Field

Over the last five years the National Portrait Gallery has developed a collection of portrait photographs that reflects both the strength and diversity of Australian achievement as well as the talents of our photographers.

Nora Heysen, 1995

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Facing Facts

Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers describes the 1922 Self-portrait with Gladioli by George Lambert.

Portrait of a Modernist

The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.

Nora Heysen with her dog sitting outside her home, Hunters Hill, Sydney, 2000

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001

Nora Heysen with her dog standing outside her home, Hunters Hill, Sydney, 2000

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001

Nora Heysen inside her home, Hunters Hill, Sydney, 2000

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001

Robert H. Black MD, c. 1950

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Self portrait, 1934

Purchased 1999