Collection: Icons

When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.

Angus and the arbiters talk (photo) shop for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Australian photographer Rod McNicol has consistently analysed the passing of time through the evidence of the photographic portrait. At once confronting and tender, McNicol’s portrait photographs are bold and intimate. 

Portraits of Australia’s pioneering psychologists and artworks by artists fascinated by the subconscious mind.