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

The painter transmogrified and Mrs Smith, 1973 by Eric Smith

The Meeting Place Conference

Sunday 1 December 2019

11:30am – 12:30pm; 2:30 – 3:15pm

The National Portrait Gallery is proud to host part of Meeting Place 2019, Australia's leading forum on arts, culture and disability.

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

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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

Your generous support helps us research and develop new exhibitions

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

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Women in Vogue

The Look

Primed

Malcolm Williamson, 1948 by an unknown artist

Born on this day

Malcolm Williamson AO CBE

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About the Gallery

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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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Maude Rose ‘Lores’ Bonney MBE AM born #otd had her first flying lessons in secret while her husband was off playing golf. When she admitted to her new interest, he bought her a bespoke suede flying suit and a de Havilland Gypsy Moth which she named ‘My Little Ship’. In this aircraft she set a new distance record for women, flying from Brisbane to Wangaratta in 1931. In 1932 she became the first woman to circumnavigate Australia by air, and in 1933 she became the first woman to fly solo from Australia to England. In 1937 she flew a Klemm aircraft, My Little Ship II, to South Africa. My Little Ship II was destroyed by fire in 1939. She gave up flying shortly afterwards – having been advised by the armed forces that women pilots were of no use during war – and in later years devoted her time to gardening and bonsai. . . . Check out the @Google page today! . . . Mrs Bonney flying from Australia to South Africa via Siam. Singapore 1937 (in her aeroplane, "My Little Ship II) by an unknown artist. . . . #TinyTreesAreCool #ButDontSquashYourDreams #MyLIttleShipII #PortraitAu #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG

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