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Pamela See (Xue Mei-Ling)

Born: 1979, Brisbane
Works: Brisbane

Lucie

The works I chose are Quong Tart by Pamela See, and Monga Khan by Peter Drew.

A head for business and a heart for love

For love, not money

The last bushrangers

Brothers in harms

Contributing artists

Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.

Artist interviews

She saved his life. He showed her painting.

Leaders, painters, friends

Portrait Donors

2014-15 Acquisition Fund

Kristin Headlam's portrait of Chris Wallace-Crabbe was acquired with the support of the Circle of Friends in 2014.

Icons Syndicate

Who is Lillie Roberts?

Talented wife for a talented husband

To coin a (farewell) phrase

A penny for their thoughts

Street fare

The late Georgian and early Victorian working classes often bought their food in ale-houses, chop-houses and ‘penny pie shops’, or purchased their meals day after day in the streets.

About Headspace

Both making and exploring art involve a form of thinking that opens the way to multiple systems of knowing and experiencing.

Forum participants

Biographies of participants in the Writing lives, revealing lives forum.

Allow me to introduce...

These full-length figures in watercolour, gouache and pencil date mostly from the 1820s, and almost all come from the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.

Alfredo Esquillo Jr

Born in Manila in 1972, Alfredo Esquillo Jr majored in painting at University of Santo Thomas.

Presenting… Shirley Purdie’s Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe

The National Portrait Gallery this week launches an online exhibition of Shirley Purdie’s remarkable self-portrait Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe to coincide with Reconciliation Week.

So Fine

The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce its winter exhibition is So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history. It will open to the public from 29 June 2018.

So Fine

Ten women artists explore the possibilities of portraiture as a contemporary art form; and reinterpret and reimagine Australian history in the Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history.

Michelle Simmons, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018

Memories

The second row of paintings recall stories relating to specific sites, experiences and activities.

Arcadia: Sound of the sea

One night in the spring of 1970 in an old house in Whale Beach, north of Sydney, John Witzig, Albe Falzon and David Elfick put together the first issue of Tracks, playing Neil Young’s album Harvest over and over again as they pasted up galleys of type.

Uncommon Australians

Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.

NPPP 2016 exhibition essay

Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.

The Bare story

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