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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2007
'I have just been to my dressing case to take a peep at you.
Both making and exploring art involve a form of thinking that opens the way to multiple systems of knowing and experiencing.
From 2015 to 2017 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on Reg Richardson AM by Mitch Cairns, a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2014, and a great example of minimalist portraiture.
Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.
Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.
George Selth Coppin (1819-1906) comedian, impresario and entrepreneur, was a driving force of the early Australian theatre.
Masters of fare: chefs, winemakers, providores celebrates men and women who have championed the unique culinary characteristics and produce of Australia, enriching our lives with new ideas and new flavours over the past forty years.
Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.
This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present
The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.
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.
I agonized over the choice of four songs to take with me to the ABC Studios for Alex Sloan’s Canberra 666 afternoon program, a sort of iteration of the old BBC Desert Island Discs.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
John Elderfield lauds the portraiture of Paul Cézanne, the artist described by both Matisse and Picasso as ‘the father of us all’.