Purchased 2021
Purchased 2021
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Purchased 2004
Robert Adamson (b. 1943), poet, divided his childhood between Neutral Bay and the Hawkesbury River, where his grandfather lived.
2 portraits in the collection
Portraits from The Movement is the first comprehensive survey of photographs from the Juno Gemes archive, which has supported the Aboriginal struggle for justice in Australia from 1978 to the present day.
Ernie Dingo AM (b. 1956), television presenter and actor, is a Yamatji man.
1 portrait in the collection
Dr Christopher Chapman explores the symbolism in the portrait commission of Marcia Langton by Brook Andrew.
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.
Anne Sanders and Christopher Chapman bring passionate characterisation to Express Yourself, the Portrait Gallery collection exhibition celebrating iconoclastic Australians.
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them.
