Enjoy, sit back, and relax with some of our favourites from the Gallery’s collection, where they find themselves expertly – and comfortably – captured by their artists.
1 Hugh Jackman, 2020 Vincent Fantauzzo. © Vincent Fantauzzo. 2 Collection display in Gallery One, August 2023.
Portraits on display view all
1 Deborah Mailman, 1999 Evert Ploeg. © Evert Ploeg/Copyright Agency, 2024. 2 Portrait of Charles Blackman, 1979 Judy Cassab AO CBE. © Judy Cassab/Copyright Agency, 2026, Currently on display. 3 Emily Kame Kngwarreye with Lily, 1993 Jenny Sages. © Jenny Sages.
1 Deborah Mailman, 1999 Evert Ploeg. © Evert Ploeg/Copyright Agency, 2024. 2 Portrait of Charles Blackman, 1979 Judy Cassab AO CBE. © Judy Cassab/Copyright Agency, 2026, Currently on display. 3 Emily Kame Kngwarreye with Lily, 1993 Jenny Sages. © Jenny Sages.
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In Gallery One
Previous exhibition, 2023Our most recent commission, the portrait of Maggie Beer by Del Kathryn Barton both combines a statuesque almost devotional likeness with a spell-binding and dream-like personalised symbology of the sitter.
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A Century of the Archibald Prize
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In Gallery Seven
Previous exhibition, 2023This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.
