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Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
The exhibition Aussies all features the ecclectic portrait photography of Rennie Ellis which captures Australian life during the 70s and 80s.
Christopher Chapman examines the battle of glamour vs. grunge which played out in the fashion and advertising of the 1990s.
Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture.
Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
Purchased 2008. The original frame for this work was donated to the National Portrait Gallery of Australia by the National Gallery of Victoria 2009.
Mary Anne Egan (also Marianne or Marian, née Cheers, 1818–1857), was born in Sydney, the daughter of ex-convicts.
1 portrait in the collection
Lee Tulloch remembers her great friend NIDA-trained actor turned photographer Stuart Campbell.
Tegan McAuley looks at the evolution of video portraiture.
Christopher Chapman profiles Chris Lilley, actor and creator of Angry Boys.
Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018
Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.
Commissioned with funds provided by Jim and Barbara Higgins, Sir Roderick Carnegie AC, Rupert Myer AO and Annabel Myer, Louise and Martyn Myer Foundation, Peter and Ruth McMullin, Diana Carlton, Professor Derek Denton AC, Harold Mitchell AC, Peter Jopling AM KC, Andrew and Liz Mackenzie, Patricia Patten, Tamie Fraser AO, Bruce Parncutt and Robin Campbell, Lauraine Diggins, Steven Skala AO and Lousje Skala 2017
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.