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Kay Cottee, 1993

Gift of the artist 1999

Ann Moyal, 1957

Gift of Ann Moyal 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Rt. Honourable Lord Hawkesbury, 1808

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Pamela See (Xue Mei-Ling)

Born: 1979, Brisbane
Works: Brisbane

Making Chinese Shadows (sixteen silhouette portraits), 2018

Purchased 2019

Captain Ah Gim, 2017

Purchased 2019

Wat A Che, 2017

Purchased 2019

Mrs Lup Mun, 2017

Purchased 2019

Yip Hoy, 2017

Purchased 2019

Jimmy Ah Foo, 2017

Purchased 2019

Chang Woo Gow, 2017

Purchased 2019

Ah Young, 2017

Purchased 2019

Tim Sang, 2017

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

Lula Chinn, 2017

Purchased 2019

Andrew Leon, 2017

Purchased 2019

Quong Tart, 2017

Purchased 2019

James Chung Gon, 2017

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

Gugug Go Tack, 2017

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

George Chow Bow, 2017

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

Adam’s Prize Apples

Pamela Gerrish Nunn explores New Zealand’s premium award for portraiture.

Lowe Kong Meng, 2017

Purchased 2019

Emma Tear Tack, 2017

Purchased 2019

The Honourable Margaret Lusink AM, 2019

Gift of The Honourable Margaret Lusink AM 2021

Self portrait, 1911

Gift of Pamela Thalben-Ball 2007

Pamela and Colin McPherson

Brad 'Gaggsy' Gallagher at a Bachelor and Spinsters Ball, Tooradin, Victoria, 2016

Mr King was once on Countdown, 2010

Lucie

The works I chose are Quong Tart by Pamela See, and Monga Khan by Peter Drew.

Jane Kennerley (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Lovers of light

Dr Sarah Engledow traces the significant links between Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo and Evelyn Chapman through their portraits.

Mary Hassall (née Rouse), c. 1850

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Preparatory study for the portrait of the Hon Tom Hughes KC, 2001

Commissioned with funds provided by Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull 2003

Elizabeth Rouse (copy of drawing by William Griffith), c. 1847

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2012
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Portrait 59

NPG Washington director Kim Sajet on the Obama portraits, Sarah Ball’s Immigrants, judging the NPPP, Frances Hodgkins, and Picnic at Hanging Rock.

Thomas Wentworth Wills

In my dreams I am dirty, broke, beautiful & free.

Australian Cricket (George John Bonnor), 1884

Purchased 2013

Ricardo Frank, 2012

Hope for kindness

Sarah Engledow arrives at the junction of fate and hope in Sarah Ball’s poignant Immigrants series.

Shane Balcomb aka. Sasha Trajik-Mole, drag queen, 2011

The elegant thinker

Sarah Engledow pens a fond farewell to acclaimed science historian Ann Moyal.

Contributing artists

Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.

Mary Hassall (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Artist interviews

Eleanor Wingate (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Shifting the definition

Defiant commitment

Sir Charles Moses, 1968

Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2003

Portrait Donors

Australia v England, 1887

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2009

So Fine

This exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history, enriching the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.

Sir John Eccles, 1959

Gift of an anonymous donor 2007

Cathryn Fitzpatrick

Cathryn Fitzpatrick, 2006

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006

Elizabeth Henrietta Fitzgerald (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Sammy (Samuel Wood), 1892

Purchased 2010

Glenn McGrath, 2003

Gift of the artist 2003

Paquita Mawson, late 1940s

Gift of Gareth Mawson Thomas and Pamela Karran-Thomas of the Mawson family 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Evonne Goolagong, 1973

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2004

Douglas Mawson, 1933

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gareth Mawson Thomas and Pamela Karran-Thomas of the Mawson family 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

George Tjungurrayi, 2002

Gift of Pamela Hansford 2007. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Greg Chappell, 1985 (printed 2010)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010

Time is precious

Headspace5: Crystal Gazing highlighted the diversity of materials and techniques that young people use for self expression. David Sequeira presents a personal view of three works in the exhibition.

2014-15 Acquisition Fund

Kristin Headlam's portrait of Chris Wallace-Crabbe was acquired with the support of the Circle of Friends in 2014.

Pigeon coup

Glenn McGrath makes a strong impact on the English batsmen and the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.

Richard Rouse (copy of drawing by William Griffith), c. 1847

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Linde Ivimey

Born: 1965, Sydney
Works: Sydney

Cannonical

Walter Lindrum, world-famous billiards player, was one of Australia's greatest sporting champions.

Dennis Lillee, 1977 (printed 2010)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010

Headspace 1

Headspace showcases portrait art produced by secondary students from Year 7 to Year 12 in Government, Catholic and Independent schools in Canberra and its surrounding regions extending to Wollongong, Deniliquin, Leeton, Crookwell, Bombala, Narooma and Albury

Shane Warne, 2006

Purchased 2006

About Headspace

Both making and exploring art involve a form of thinking that opens the way to multiple systems of knowing and experiencing.

Australian of the Year

The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.

Cocky McGrath

The long life and few words of a vice-regal cockatoo

Australian Visit

The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.

Mark Strizic

This exhibition traces the creative output of nearly 50 years by one of Australia's landmark living photographers.

Forum participants

Biographies of participants in the Writing lives, revealing lives forum.

Sir Les Patterson, 1999

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023

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.

First Ladies

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

Making Portraits

The considered matching of artist to subject has produced an amazing collection of unique and original works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery

Abstraction and figuration

James Angus discusses his major sculpture commission Geo Face Distributor with Christopher Chapman.

So Fine

The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce its winter exhibition is So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history. It will open to the public from 29 June 2018.

Ingres in Paris

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was one of the greatest portrait painters in history.

Grande dames

Eva Respini focuses on the ‘society portraits’ in MOMA’s Cindy Sherman retrospective.

Uncommon Australians

This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.

So Fine

Ten women artists explore the possibilities of portraiture as a contemporary art form; and reinterpret and reimagine Australian history in the Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023

We encourage you to look, to feel, to think, to question and most importantly, to identify and connect.

Big it up

Former National Portrait Gallery Curator Magda Keaney was a member of the selection panel of the Schwepes Photographic Portrait Prize 2004 at the National Portrait Gallery London.

Top shot that

Gideon Haigh discusses portraits of Australian cricketers from the early 20th century

Living landscape

Gillian Raymond ponders landscapes as self-portraiture in Michael Taylor’s intimate expressionism.

The boy, the bed and the gun

Christopher Chapman contemplates the provocative performance art of Chris Burden. 

The news from Washington

Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.

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.

Safe space

Amy Middleton on the power of portraiture in promoting inclusivity and connecting with intersectionality and diversity in all its forms.

Star signs

Barry York charts the course from childhood request to autographed celebrity portrait anthology.

Secure the shadow ere the substance fade

The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.

Something old, something new

Andrew Mayo considers the changing face of modern wedding photography through the eyes of two of its finest exponents, Dan O’Day and Kelly Tunney.

The right note

Marian Anderson’s glorious voice thrust her into stardom, and a more reluctant role as American civil rights pioneer.

Finding Mrs Frisby

Robyn Sweaney's quiet Violet obsession.

Kiwi magpie

Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.

Rock art

Andrew Mayo talks to three of Australia’s most prominent and prolific music photographers — Martin Philbey, Kane Hibberd and Daniel Boud — about the challenges and inspiration behind their craft.

Us being ourselves

Penelope Grist talks to photographer Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis about capturing moments, telling stories and keeping Culture strong.

The 'I' in Indigenous art

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

Robyn Sweaney

Robyn's parents had two terriers, Wuff and Snuff. In spite of Snuff’s ominous name and a couple of close shaves – once, he jumped out of a moving car, and another time, on a long road trip, he was accidentally left behind at a petrol station – he outlived Wuff.

Beguiling impressions

Sarah Engledow is seduced by the portraits and the connections between the artists and their subjects in the exhibition Impressions: Painting light and life.

The activist A-list

Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.

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. 

Portraiture in a Bleak House

It may seem an odd thing to do at one’s leisure on a beautiful tropical island, but I spent much of my midwinter break a few weeks ago re-reading Bleak House.

The more things change...

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