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Festival opening night dinner with Paul West

Join the host of River Cottage Australia for a special meal and conversation

National Portrait Gallery Director announced

The National Portrait Gallery welcomes Angus Trumble

Ben McNamara

This is Marissa Gallagher from Kintore, which if you're in Alice Springs, just go west until the WA border, just before that, a traditional area of Pintupi mob.

The choices of a modern woman

When opposites attract

Stepping out

Beautiful punk love

Margaret Seares, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018

The Legend of Ruby and Archie

A bond in song

A photographer’s glamorous friends

Community, arts, activism

Icons Syndicate

Oz Indie

It was the era of recording your favourite songs directly from the radio; of seeing the latest acts and clips on Countdown; and when the Aussie bands you saw on TV and heard in the charts were the ones you could see live at the pub.

2014-15 Acquisition Fund

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

Architecture

Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker

Richard Walley OAM honoured in new Portrait Gallery commission

A new commissioned portrait funded by the Gallery’s Foundation will be launched at Murdoch University in Perth tonight, Wednesday 2 September.

Pushpamala N

Pushpamala N. was born in 1956 in Bangalore. Her early training was in sculpture, but as her practice progressed she brought an early enthusiasm for narrative figuration into her photographic work.

David Cossini

Godfrey's amazing man. I've known him for four years now. He has a very tough story.

Allow me to introduce...

These full-length figures in watercolour, gouache and pencil date mostly from the 1820s, and almost all come from the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.