The Portrait Gallery is excited to announce an upcoming portrait of the CommBank Matildas FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ Squad. The major new commission will be a moving-image artwork by acclaimed Sydney-based artist and filmmaker Angela Tiatia.
Filmed at the CommBank Matildas training camps in Houston, London and Melbourne, the portrait will feature all 23 players from the historic FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ squad that captivated the country.
National Portrait Gallery Director Bree Pickering said that ‘the CommBank Matildas changed how we think about and follow professional sport in Australia. The team captured the hearts of die-hard, life-long sports fans and introduced millions of new people to the joy of football and sports fandom. This extraordinary group of athletes came together – and brought us with them – in an era-defining campaign that so many Australians will never forget. We are so excited to work with Angela Tiatia to honour their legacy.’
The portrait will be unveiled in late 2025.
Angela Tiatia is a Samoan/Australian artist based in Sydney. In 2022 she received Australia’s most prestigious award for contemporary moving image art, the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission. That work, The Dark Current, debuted at ACMI (the Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in 2023 and has since won the Fisher’s Ghost Award (2023) and toured nationally and internationally, including at Frieze London, and inclusion at symposiums at Tate Modern and the Venice Biennale.
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This portrait commission is supported by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
