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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.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

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Aaron Pedersen

Aaron Pedersen

Aaron Pedersen

Aaron Pedersen, c. 2000

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004

Tommy Woodcock and Reckless

Aaron Woodcock

Aaron 'Tommy' Woodcock (1905-1985), horse strapper and trainer, was the son of a Cobb and Co driver and expressed his affinity with horses from an early age.

1 portrait in the collection

Cameron, Amelia and Sariah, 2011 by Aaron Puls

Cameron, Amelia and Sariah, 2011

Kurt Coleman - Literally Me, 2015 by Aaron Smith

Kurt Coleman - Literally Me, 2015

Mike Low, 2020 Aaron Puls

Mike Low

Tommy Woodcock and Reckless

Tommy Woodcock and Reckless

Tommy Woodcock and Reckless

Tommy Woodcock and Reckless, 1977 (printed 2010)

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010

The Salway family, 2020 Dion Georgopoulos

The Salway family

Dion Georgopoulos

Fragility my freedom – Ink blot mind, 2011 by Aaron James McGarry, video: 6 minutes

Fragility my freedom – Ink blot mind, 2011

by Aaron James McGarry

General content

Finalist, iD2012

The conscious unconscious, Saturday morning sleep in, 2013 by Justin Aaron Spaull

The conscious unconscious, Saturday morning sleep in, 2013

by Justin Aaron Spaull

The Kelly Gang (from The Australasian Sketcher, 17 July 1880)

The Kelly Gang (from The Australasian Sketcher, 17 July 1880)

The Kelly Gang (from The Australasian Sketcher, 17 July 1880)

The Kelly Gang (from The Australasian Sketcher, 17 July 1880), 1880

Tom Carrington, The Australasian Sketcher

Portrait, wood engraving on paper

Purchased 2017

A Commissioner of Customs

Hon. Edward Cohen

Edward Aaron Cohen (1822–1877), merchant, politician and community leader, came to Australia with his mother and nine siblings in 1833, his father, Henry, having been transported to New South Wales that year.

1 portrait in the collection

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Julian Kingma

Julian Kingma (b. 1968), photographer, began his career in 1988 as a cadet for the Herald newspaper in Melbourne, and later worked for the Sunday Age as Head Features Photographer.

11 portraits in the collection

A Commissioner of Customs

A Commissioner of Customs

A Commissioner of Customs

A Commissioner of Customs "Faithful to Francis" [The Hon. Edward Cohen M.L.A.], 1874

Tom Durkin, The Weekly Times

Portrait, lithograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

The Destruction of the Kelly gang (from The Australasian Sketcher, 17 July 1880)

Joe Byrne

Joe Byrne (1857-1880), born to Irish Catholic parents like the others in Ned Kelly’s ‘gang’, showed promise at school but left as a twelve year old, after his father died.

1 portrait in the collection

Tim Winton

2020 Annual Appeal

In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.

Animation 1 from the series Hereinbefore, 2012 by Laura Moore

iD Digital Portraiture Award winner announced

Archived media releases 2012

The inaugural winner of the $10,000 iD Digital Portraiture Award was announced this morning at the National Portrait Gallery.

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