The collection display includes a wide selection of portraits that tell extraordinary stories of encounter, exploration, independence, individuality and achievement in Australia. Visitors to the Gallery can follow the development of portraiture from oil painting to digital media.
Celebrate the Gallery’s 20th birthday summer with Electric! Portraits that pop! The collection exhibition features a mix of bright, bold and colourful paintings, prints and photographs, and buoyant video portraits.
Drawn from the NPG’s burgeoning collection of cartes de visite, Carte-o-mania! celebrates the wit, style and substance of the pocket-sized portraits that were taken and collected like crazy in post-goldrush Australia.
Free activities for families to enjoy together. Create a #deadlyselfie with ‘Mirawarri’, a Walpiri Indigenous selfie and digital image-making app developed by the Warnayaka Art Centre with Gretta Louw and Sneakaway Studio.
Free.
Discover the Gallery’s portraits through an exploratory sound workshop, using unusual instruments and found objects. Suitable for children aged 8 – 12 years.
Bookings required
Listen to the story Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox, illustrated by Julie Vivas, and create your own visual response.
Bookings required
Explore portraiture and come face to face with Australian identity, history, culture, creativity and diversity.
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We depend on your support to keep creating our programs, exhibitions, publications and building the amazing portrait collection!
The café is open 9:00am-2:00pm weekdays and 9:00am-3:00pm on the weekend. The shop is open 10:00am to 5:00pm every day.
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