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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

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Megan Gale

Megan Gale

Megan Gale (b. 1975), model, entrepreneur and media personality, achieved fame in Italy before becoming widely recognised in Australia.

1 portrait in the collection

Megan Gale

Megan Gale

Megan Gale

Megan Gale, 2002

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of the artist 2006

Walter A Gale

Walter Frederick Gale

Walter Frederick Gale (1865-1945), banker and astronomer, joined the Savings Bank of New South Wales in 1888.

1 portrait in the collection

Walter A Gale

Walter A Gale

Walter A Gale

Walter A Gale, 1917

Portrait, pen and ink on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Mia at home, 2019 Megan Hales

Mia at home, 2019

Megan's place, 2024 Rebecca Polonski

Megan's place

Rebecca Polonski

The Art Lovers - Megan, 2013 by Gary Grealy

The Art Lovers - Megan, 2013

Megan Wilding as Blackie Blackie Brown: Traditional Owner of Death, 2019 Wendy Sharpe

Megan Wilding as Blackie Blackie Brown: Traditional Owner of Death, 2019

Dame Edna Everage

Bare

Degrees of undress

Previous exhibition, 2015

Bare: Degrees of undress celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.

Dame Edna Everage

All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress

Archived media releases 2015

This exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.

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All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress

Archived media releases 2015

A new exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and the fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.

Megan Gale

Glamour vs grunge

Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2010

Christopher Chapman examines the battle of glamour vs. grunge which played out in the fashion and advertising of the 1990s.

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2011

Portrait Donors

Kay Cottee

Kay Cottee

Kay Cottee

Kay Cottee, 1993

Pamela Thalben-Ball

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of the artist 1999

Kay Cottee

Kay Cottee AO

Kay Cottee AO (b. 1954) became the first woman in history to complete a solo, non-stop and unassisted voyage around the world.

1 portrait in the collection

The Joy Of Life, 2002 by Janelle McKay

Headspace 3

Previous exhibition, 2002

The self-portrait enables students to explore emerging and changing aspects of their own identity, their sense of self, their place in the world, their experience of being human

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