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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

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James Iyuna

James Iyuna

James Iyuna

James Iyuna, 1986

Martin van der Wal

Portrait, inkjet print on rag paper

Purchased 2005

The Hon Gough Whitlam, Ossie Cruse and Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson, sheep farmer and Aboriginal land rights activist, was born in Brewarrina, NSW.

1 portrait in the collection

A Politician

A Politician

A Politician

A Politician "Unlock the Lands!" [The Hon. James MacPhearson Grant], 1874

Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times

Portrait, lithograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Some women you may not know, 2022-2023 Alison Alder

Some women you may not know

Script for the series The Artist’s Family, 2023 Maria Tumarkin

Script for the series The Artist’s Family

Some women you may not know, 2022-2023 Alison Alder

Some women you may not know

Mandy Martin

Mandy Martin

Mandy Martin (1952–2021), painter, printmaker and teacher, was born in Adelaide and studied at the South Australian School of Art from 1972 to 1975.

3 portraits in the collection

Gamaliel Butler

Gamaliel Butler

Gamaliel Butler

Gamaliel Butler, c. 1810

an unknown artist

Portrait, watercolour on ivory

Purchased 2015

Margaret Robertson

Margaret Robertson

Margaret Robertson

Margaret Robertson, c. 1852

an unknown artist

Portrait, ambrotype, hand coloured

Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Limber 7, 2022 Tarryn Gill

Limber 7

My Friendly Island Cooks, 2023 Latai Taumoepeau, Stelios Papadakis (Photographer) , Sēini Fale'aka Taumoepeau (Kahoa/garland) , Maria José Taumoepeau (Make-up artist)

My Friendly Island Cooks

Latai Taumoepeau, Stelios Papadakis (Photographer) , Sēini Fale'aka Taumoepeau (Kahoa/garland) , Maria José Taumoepeau (Make-up artist)

Trukanini

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Activists

Google Arts and Culture

Learning resources

Explore our complex history and those who have been living in Australia, connecting with the land and telling their stories for 60,000 years. For year 5 – 8 students.

Richard Rouse (copy of drawing by William Griffith)

Richard Rouse

Richard Rouse (1774-1852), grazier and landowner, came to New South Wales in 1801 as a free settler with his wife Elizabeth (née Adams, 1772-1849) and the first two of their nine children.

1 portrait in the collection

Gamaliel Butler

Gamaliel Butler

Gamaliel Butler (1783–1852), lawyer and free settler, emigrated to Van Diemen’s Land in 1824 with his wife, Sarah (née Paine, 1787–1870).

2 portraits in the collection

Betty Churcher

Betty Churcher

In their own words

In their own words

Recorded 2014

William Robertson

William Robertson

William Robertson

William Robertson, c. 1852

an unknown artist

Portrait, 1/6 plate daguerreotype, hand coloured with case

Gift of Fiona Turner (née Robertson) and John Robertson 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

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