Collection Highlights Tour, National Portrait Gallery

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Collection display in Gallery Three, April 2023

Collection display galleries

Previous exhibition, 2020

The collection display includes a wide selection of portraits that tell extraordinary stories of encounter, exploration, independence, individuality and achievement in Australia.

Gallery One

Current exhibition

Open every day

Drawn from the National Portrait Gallery collection, this salon-style hang references the lavish 18th- and 19th-century European salons where paintings were hung floor-to-ceiling.

Those trees came back to me in my dreams

Joan Ross

Those trees came back to me in my dreams

Current exhibition

from Saturday 24 August 2024

The exhibition is a vibrant and dynamic exhibition by acclaimed contemporary artist Joan Ross. Transforming scenes from colonial artworks through a digital ‘cut and paste’ technique and her signature fluorescent yellow, Ross explores critical issues like climate change, greed and consumerism.

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