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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.

Tracey, 2018 by Rod McNicol

Tracey, 2018

by Rod McNicol
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Baby Guerrilla standing behind a large artwork in a room with a wooden floor and a large window looking onto a leafy green garden

Baby Guerrilla

Artists and Collectives

Baby Guerrilla is a street artist based in Naarm/Melbourne. Her exquisite large-scale drawings of figures made into paste-ups celebrate humanity.

Ahn & Pete, The Bus Stop Project, 2012 by Simone Darcy

Ahn & Pete, The Bus Stop Project, 2012

by Simone Darcy
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The crime writer Shane Maloney
The crime writer Shane Maloney
The crime writer Shane Maloney

The crime writer Shane Maloney, 2004

Rick Amor
Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

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Contact Sheet (Vale St, one; Mozart St, one; Ian Macrae), 1975 Carol Jerrems

Contact Sheet (Vale St, one; Mozart St, one; Ian Macrae)

Carol Jerrems
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Contact sheet (Mozart St, two), 1975 Carol Jerrems

Contact sheet (Mozart St, two)

Carol Jerrems
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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.

Senator Bonner

Portrait of a nation

Australian Schools Portrait Project
Learning resource archive

Explore portraits of those who had a Canberra suburb or street named after them. For primary students.

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