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Lucy, 2006

Observation point

Every face is different and every face is fascinating, but I find an elderly one particularly intriguing.

Sally Robinson

Artist Sally Robinson describes her career and the creation of her portrait of Tim Winton.

Tim Winton, 2019

Tim Winton, 2019

Purchased with funds provided by the Annual Appeal 2020

Sally Robbins

Sally Robbins, 2005

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006

Judy, 2012

Glenn McGrath, 2003

Gift of the artist 2003

Roslyn, 2016

Purchased 2017

Angry Anderson, 2006

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010

Script for the series The Artist’s Family

Pigeon coup

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

Athletes (Sally Robbins, Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Caroline Pileggi, Lorian Graham, Sharon Anyos), 2005-2006

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006

Good, bad and the ugly

Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.

Sally Smart

Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Sally Smart is known nationally and internationally for her large-scale cut-out assemblages, collages, textile works and puppetry.

Gladys Moncrieff, 1920s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Sally Douglas 2009

Artists and Collectives

Arts Project Australia, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, ‘stArts with D’ Performance Ensemble, Abdul Abdullah, Alison Alder, Amrita Hepi, Atong Atem, Christopher Bassi, Kate Beynon, Mia Boe, Baby Guerrilla, Tarryn Gill, Julie Gough, Naomi Hobson, Deborah Kelly, Fiona McMonagle, Angelica Mesiti, Dylan Mooney, Nell, Sally Smart, Vipoo Srivilasa, Latai Taumoepeau and Kaylene Whiskey.

2020 Annual Appeal

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

Norman Gunston and Denise Drysdale, 1976 (printed 2010)

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

National Youth Self Portrait Prize

At the end of 2007 the National Portrait Gallery launched the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize and artists aged between eighteen and twenty-five were invited to submit self portraits using a variety of media including drawing, painting, printmaking and traditional or digital photography.

2012-13 Acquisition Fund

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

Sketch for portrait of Tom Uren, 1972

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Tom Uren's family 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Donors

Portrait of Leslie Walford, 1970s

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Sally Hardy 2019

Flash

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

Supporters

Eric Douglas, c. 1930

Gift of Sally Douglas 2009

First Ladies

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

Announcing... Portrait23: Identity

In this major new exhibition marking the National Portrait Gallery’s third decade, 23 Australian artists and collectives have been invited to create portraits without constraints or boundaries.

Our achievements to date

During the period 2018–20, the Gallery implemented our first Access Action Plan.

Ready , set... shoot

The exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus offers various interpretations of sporting men and women by five Australian photographers.

The National Portrait Prizes

The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.

2023 Annual Appeal

In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.

2022 Annual Appeal

In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.

Primed

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

Portrait Donors

Annual Appeal

See through me

Penelope Grist and Rebecca Ray talk to the artists in Portrait23: Identity about transcending modes of portraiture.

The long game

Penelope Grist spends some quality time with the Portrait Gallery’s summer collection exhibition, Eye to Eye.

The Lawrence lustre

Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Paper, boy

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

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 women you may not know

‘Everybody’s lives are built by so many influences, and for me, it is writers, artists and activists who have influenced how I think about the world.’

Prima facie

Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.

Some prime ministers

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