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Pictorial profiles of hearth and home

Keep it in the family

Art Handlers' Award

The Art Handlers' Award for 2022 went to Weight of the Mind's Periapt, 2021 by Jane Allan.

Home is where the heart is

For richer, for poorer

Major Thomas Lord, c. 1840

Purchased 2015

Barry Jones, 2020

Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC, Allan Myers AC KC and Maria Myers AC 2022

Joseph Cotta, 1984

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joseph Mathew Cotta and Gladys Maria Cotta 2016

Gladys Cotta, 1984

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joseph Mathew Cotta and Gladys Maria Cotta 2016

Beauty and strength

Influential Indigenous Australian artist Michael Riley (1960 - 2004) created these portrait photographs between 1984 and 1990 - they stand as an intricately connected group portrait of the vibrant urban-based Indigenous arts community in Sydney's inner-west at a formative moment.

A passion eating into your vitals

The salacious and sordid details of Henry Kinder’s death transfixed Sydneysiders with a case combining murder with seduction, mesmerism, blackmail and poisoning.

Artist interviews

Richard Windeyer, c. 1828

Gift of the Windeyer family 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

APS3 Collection Officer, PN 6909

The Collection Officer works closely with the Preparator & Exhibition Designer and reports directly to the Collection Manager. The Portrait Gallery employs two Collection Officers who work mostly as a team to install works of art in the permanent and temporary galleries, to pack works of art for transport and to ensure the safe storage, tracking and processing of works of art.

All there in black and white

The National Portrait Gallery acquired a beguiling silhouette group portrait by Samuel Metford, an English artist who spent periods of his working life in America.

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.

EL1 Exhibitions Manager

Reporting to the Director, Collection and Exhibitions, the Exhibitions Manager oversees the management and delivery of the Gallery’s permanent, temporary and travelling exhibition programs.