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Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Chrissie Grishin (b. 1954), printmaker and painter, exhibits under the name of G W Bot, derived from an eighteenth-century French reference to the wombat as ‘le grand Wam Bot’ and adopted in tribute to the animal with which she has taken as her totem.
1 portrait in the collection

Sasha Grishin AM (birth date undisclosed) is the Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History at the Australian National University.
1 portrait in the collection



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Claudia Hyles 2012

Natasha Gadd is an independent documentary filmmaker, writer and curator based in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection


My practice has always been driven by my experimental curiosity, from heavy wax and resin bodies generated in flame, to delicate temporal works that explore the conductive and alchemical possibilities of copper.

Natasha Johnston (1914-1984) was born Nataliya Konstantinovna Bagration-Moukhranskya, Princess Natasha Bagration, in Crimea.
1 portrait in the collection



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Hugo Vickers 2005



Purchased 2011

Born in Melbourne, Natasha Bieniek began her formal artistic training at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002. Bieniek’s When the music’s over (2006) won the Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, a painting scholarship to study at the Accademia d’Arte in Florence, where she learnt the ancient technique of egg tempera.

The exhibition features work from Jan Nelson, Natasha Bieniek, Patricia Piccinini, Juan Ford, Petrina Hicks, Ron Mueck, Yanni Floros, Sam Jinks, Michael Peck and Robin Eley.



Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001



Gift of the artist 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.



Gift of the artist 2002. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.