Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2013
Gael Newton looks at Australian photography, film and the sixties through the novel lens of Mark Strizic.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.
Drawn from some of the many donations made to the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Portraits for Posterity pays homage both to the remarkable (and varied) group of Australians who are portrayed in the portraits and the generosity of the many donors who have presented them to the Gallery.
Jack Purtell (1921-2017), jockey, had his first ride at the age of fifteen.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Frith family 2013
A new painting by Jiawei Shen captures the vision and resolve of the Gallery's founder, L. Gordon Darling AC CMG.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
The Chairman, Board, Director and staff mourn the loss of the National Portrait Gallery's inaugural director.
Purchased 2013
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
Rick Amor, noblest yet most unaffected of contemporary Australian portraitists, is also a painter of enigmatic, ominous landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes that haunt the viewer like dreams, dimly-recalled.
The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Rennie Ellis: Aussies All is a celebration of the life and work of the late Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.
