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Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lyn Williams AM 2011
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
This exhibition traces the creative output of nearly 50 years by one of Australia's landmark living photographers.
Andrew Sayers AM (1957–2015) was inaugural Director of the National Portrait Gallery.
1 portrait in the collection
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
Directors of the National Portrait Gallery from 1998 to today.
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.