Take a 45 minute tour of the Portrait Gallery exploring the collection and the building.
Collection highlights tour
11:30am – 12:15pm
Take a 45 minute tour of the Portrait Gallery exploring the collection and the building.
Open every day
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.
Put yourself in the picture with an Instagram filter created for @PortraitAu by artist Jess Herrington.
Free activities inspired by the exhibition Eye to Eye for families to enjoy together.
from Saturday 14 December 2019
Eye to Eye is a summer Portrait Gallery Collection remix arranged by degree of eye contact – from turned away with eyes closed all the way through to right-back-at-you – as we explore artists’ and subjects’ choices around the direction of the gaze.