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Janet Dawson

Recorded 1965

Petite beauty marries gentle giant

Books, beets and heat

Portrait Donors

Janet Dawson’s painting of Michael Boddy gives paws for thought

Bronwyn Watson writes about Summer 1986 for the Popular Pet Show.

The Popular Pet Show

This exhibition expresses the joy and warmth that many of us derive from our animal companions, and celebrates their trusting, unpretentious ways, with portraits of Australians and their furry, feathered and fluffy friends.

Pets of all types take over the National Portrait Gallery

It is not every day that a national gallery turns its walls over to the animal companions that bring unconditional love and joy to their owners but this summer we have opened the doors to 15 contemporary artists with very different ways of depicting our furry, feathered and scaled pets.

Janet Dawson

When soulmates Janet Dawson and Michael Boddy moved from Sydney to a property, Boddy was clear about why: ‘Our marriage is one long conversation - we moved to the bush so we could talk to each other without so many interruptions.’

Self-effacing

Michael Wardell samples the fare in the University of Queensland National Self-portrait Prize.

Joseph Cotta, 1984

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joseph Mathew Cotta and Gladys Maria Cotta 2016

Gladys Cotta, 1984

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Joseph Mathew Cotta and Gladys Maria Cotta 2016

The Bare story

Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be

Getting bare

How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.

Joseph Cotta, 1983-1984

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Michael with beetroot sprouting, 2008

Purchased 2015

Chris Dickins, 1983-1984

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Professor Derek Denton, 2009

Gift of Professor Derek Denton AC and Dame Margaret Scott AC 2014. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Portrait 36

This issue features convict portraitists, Janet Dawson, Paul Grabowsky, Nam Le, the Present Tense exhibition and more.

Bill Hunter, 1974

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Figurative foundation

Joanna Gilmour explores the life and art of the Australian artist Janet Dawson.

To Look Within

This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present

Facing Facts

Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers describes the 1922 Self-portrait with Gladioli by George Lambert.

Portrait of a Modernist

The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.

Intimate Portraits

Intimate Portraits is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints that explore the less public side of portraiture

Janet Dawson, Paddington, Sydney, 1966 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Summer 1986, 1986

Purchased 2000, part gift of Michael Boddy

Self portrait, between 1951 and 1953

Gift of the artist 2000