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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Andrew Sayers asks whether a portrait can truly be the examination of a life.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Pat Corrigan's generous gift of 100 photographic portraits by Greg Weight.
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present
The exhibition Depth of Field displays a selection of portrait photographs that reflect the strength and diversity of Australian achievement.
Over the last five years the National Portrait Gallery has developed a collection of portrait photographs that reflects both the strength and diversity of Australian achievement as well as the talents of our photographers.
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers describes the 1922 Self-portrait with Gladioli by George Lambert.
The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased 1999
Nora Heysen, AM (1911-2003), fourth child of South Australian landscape painter Sir Hans Heysen, grew up in Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills.
9 portraits in the collection