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Michael Desmond explores the life of ballerina Irina Baranova through the portrait by Australian artist Jenny Sages.
Juan Ford received a Master of Art, by research, from RMIT University in 2001. His many commissions include the National Gallery of Victoria’s interactive work You, me and the flock for Melbourne Now 2013/2014 and a project for Hotel de Immigrantes, a project in Manifesta 9, the European Biennale in 2012.
The considered matching of artist to subject has produced an amazing collection of unique and original works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery
Fiona McMonagle, an Irish-born, Melbourne-based artist, grew up in an outer suburb of Melbourne and completed a qualification in visual arts at RMIT before progressing to the Victorian College of the Arts.
1 portrait in the collection
Magda Keaney explores the symbolism in eX de Medici's portrait of Midnight Oil.
Curator, Sarah Engledow, introduces the artists and the animals in The Popular Pet Show.
Lady Deborah Vernon Hackett (1887–1965) was a mining company director and philanthropist.
1 portrait in the collection
Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them.
A magnanimous portrait of Helena Rubinstein has been acquired for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.
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.
Portraits of philanthropists in the collection honour their contributions to Australia and acknowledge their support of the National Portrait Gallery.
The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.
Basil grew into a speckled beauty – a long-legged leaper and an exceptionally vocal dog, with a great register of sounds, ascending in shock value from a whimper to a growl to a bark to a yelp that’s a violation of the ears.
Purchased 2017
Commissioned with funds provided by King & Wood Mallesons 2018
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present