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Rose, 2011 by Natasha Bieniek

Natasha Bieniek

More about In the flesh artists

Born in Melbourne, Natasha Bieniek began her formal artistic training at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002. Bieniek’s When the music’s over (2006) won the Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, a painting scholarship to study at the Accademia d’Arte in Florence, where she learnt the ancient technique of egg tempera.

Sid Myer AM

Foundation members announced

Archived media releases 2015

The newly-established National Portrait Gallery Foundation met for its inaugural meeting last Friday 15 May in Canberra.

The Boss, Ross Wilson

The Boss, Ross Wilson

The Boss, Ross Wilson

The Boss, Ross Wilson, 2009

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portriat Gallery
Gift of the artist 2011

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett

Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett, c. 1905

Florence Ada Fuller

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2005

Maquette for 'Divide (Self portrait)'

Sam Jinks

Sam Jinks developed a talent for drawing and constructing his ideas alongside his father, a Melbourne cabinetmaker.

2 portraits in the collection

L. Gordon Darling AC CMG

L Gordon Darling AC CMG

L. Gordon Darling AC CMG (1921-2015), former company director, was the Founding Patron of the National Portrait Gallery.

2 portraits in the collection

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes, 2020 Nic Walker

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Hedda Morrison

Hedda Morrison

Hedda Morrison

Hedda Morrison, 1941 (printed 2004)

Alastair Morrison

Portrait, type C photograph from an original negative on paper

Gift of the artist 2004

Reverend William Bedford junior

Reverend William Bedford junior

Reverend William Bedford junior

Reverend William Bedford junior, c. 1846

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright

Portrait, watercolour on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2013

Portrait of Professor Graeme Clark

Portraits for Posterity

Previous exhibition, 2006

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.

General Eva Burrows AC AO

General Eva Burrows AC AO

General Eva Burrows AC AO

General Eva Burrows AC AO, 2001

Gabrielle Martin

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2001

Portrait of Captain James Cook RN

The Quiet Australian

Magazine article by Brian Dale, 2001

Robert Oatley talks about the repatriation of the John Webber portrait of Captain James Cook.

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Hong Fu

Hong Fu was born in China in 1946 and held his first solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Beijing, in 1988.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch

Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2002

The story behind the commissioning of the tapesty portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch.

Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts

Naomi Watts (b. 1968), actress, was born in England and came to Australia from Wales at the age of fourteen.

1 portrait in the collection

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes, 2020

Portrait, archival pigment print on Canson Edition Etching cotton rag paper

Gift of the artist 2021

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