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William Baker Ashton, First Governor of Adelaide Gaol, c. 1849

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Entr'acte, 2023

Purchased 2023

Mr Don Baker, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, Sydney 1891 from Australasia Illustrated, 1891

Purchased 2009

Alec Hope, c. 1985 (printed 2007)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2007

Blek Bala MJ, 2017

Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video

A D Hope and his circle

To celebrate the centenary of the birth of poet Alec Derwent Hope AC OBE (1907-2000), the National Portrait Gallery exhibited a selection from its many portraits of Australian poets and authors.

Friends

Warwick Baker’s photos of his friends are intimate. They hold a stillness that allows their subjects to be at ease.

Lost Love, Yiyi is tired, and Waiting on the bridge, 2014

Winner, MDPA 2014

Tough & Tender

Art by Warwick Baker, Chris Burden, Larry Clark, Rozalind Drummond, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe and Collier Schorr explores personal relations, individual expression and fluid identity.

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.

The first Australian first-class cricket team to tour England and North America, 1878

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

The 70 year old jetty jumper, 2011

Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014

The Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award is an annual event to extend traditional notions of portraiture and foster emerging artists with an interest in contemporary technology.

Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize 2024

Launched at the National Portrait Gallery in 2022, the Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize is a competition for primary and secondary students, with four separate age categories across Kindergarten to Year 12.