National Portrait Gallery

Women in Vogue

Celebrating Sixty Years in Australia

Opening in October 2019, this exhibition showcases sixty years of the Vogue Australia archive together with a special tribute to some remarkable Australian women who have featured in the pages of Vogue, and includes iconic portraits of Kylie Minogue and Elle Macpherson, among others. Early bird tickets on sale now.

The Look

Featuring striking photographic portraits of contemporary figures from the National Portrait Gallery collection, The Look is an aesthetic treat with a lashing of je ne sais quoi.

Primed

Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.

Ningali Lawford-Wolf, 1996 (printed 2016) by Stuart Spence

The Portraits

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Portraits of people who have influenced and contributed to the shaping of Australian society.

Undercurrent Design Market

Friday 22 November 2019

5:00 – 8:00pm

The Undercurrent Design Market is on again! This popular weekend showcases an array of contemporary, leading edge Australian-made design treats and just in time for Christmas.

Undercurrent Design Market

Saturday 23 November 2019
until Sunday 24 November 2019

10:00am – 5:00pm

The Undercurrent Design Market is on again! This popular weekend showcases an array of contemporary, leading edge Australian-made design treats and just in time for Christmas.

Visual Thinking Strategies

Beginner practicum

Monday 25 November 2019
until Tuesday 26 November 2019

10:00am – 5:00pm

The Beginner Practicum focuses on developing VTS facilitation skills through presentation of the basic theoretical tenets of VTS and opportunities to practice with group coaching.

Bookings required

Circle of Friends Spring Soirée

Tuesday 26 November 2019

6:00 – 8:00pm

Spring in for conversation, drinks and canapés with Director Karen Quinlan and guest speaker, avid gardener and visionary artist, Bill Henson.

Bookings required

Marcia Langton, 2009 by Brook Andrew, Trent Walter

Little Faces

Summer series

Tuesday 3 December 2019

9:30 – 10:15am; 10:30 – 11:15am

Little children and their parent/carer are invited to join a Learning Facilitator for playful activities. There will be singing, movement and drawing.

Bookings required

Little Faces

Summer series

Wednesday 4 December 2019

9:30 – 10:15am; 10:30 – 11:15am

Little children and their parent/carer are invited to join a Learning Facilitator for playful activities. There will be singing, movement and drawing.

Bookings required

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Portrait 63

Winter 2019

Rod Mcnicol's method and motivation, 19th century Indigenous peoples, Barrie Cassidy on Bob Hawke, five generations of the Kang family from Korea and more.

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Portrait Gallery Foundation Annual Appeal 2019

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Helena Rubinstein in a red brocade Balenciaga gown, 1957 by Graham Sutherland

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Women in Vogue

The Look

Primed

The first ministry under responsible government in New South Wales ( Thomas Holt, Treasurer; Sir William Manning, Attorney General; Sir Stuart Donaldson, First Premier of New South Wales; Sir John Darvall, Solicitor General; and George Nichols, Auditor General)., 1856 by Freeman Brothers

Born on this day

Thomas Holt

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Portrait of Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke (Sass & Bide), 2008 by Deborah Paauwe

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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, 15 Jan 1969 by David Combe

Peaceful front

by David Gist, 13 March 2019

‘Is this one of yours?’ David Combe still remembers reading the letter from his father in early 1969. Like every soldier serving in Vietnam, he valued any missive from home.

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On World Kindness Day, join us in celebrating peace advocate, Gillian Hicks AM MBE, the founder of the London-based not-for-profit organisation MAD [Making a Difference] for Peace. Having grown up in Adelaide, she moved to London in 1991 and worked for Marie Claire magazine, architectural magazine Blueprint and the Design Council. On 7 July 2005 Hicks set out for work as usual, although she did not take her customary route, changing trains on the way. Within hours, she was the last living casualty rescued from the London Underground ‘7/7’ bombings. So severely injured that she was unidentifiable, she was admitted to St Thomas’s Hospital tagged ‘One Unknown’. Having lost some 80 per cent of her blood, she was not expected to live. Both her legs were amputated below the knee. As soon as she was able to walk on prosthetics, Hicks visited Beeston, where three of the bombers had come from, and met members of their community, who embraced her. In December 2005 she walked down the aisle to be married. Her first book, One Unknown, was published in 2006. Two and a half years after the bombing, she walked more than 430 kilometres from Leeds to London. Currently holding two honorary doctorates, she returned to Adelaide in 2012, remarried, gave birth to a girl, established a public speaking career, learned to swim and was named South Australian of the year for 2015. This striking portrait is on show now as part of The Look. Gill Hicks, 2016 by Tony Kearney. @gillismad @tony_kearney_10 #WorldKindnessDay #TheLook #PortraitAu #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG

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