Charles is my wingman
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Danina Anderson, daughter of Max Dupain 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Aviation carried women’s roles in society to greater heights – fashion followed suit.
Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
The artist's diary profiles six decades of Cassab's work, from the early portrait commissions of the 1950s to later paintings that have helped confirm her eminent place in the canon of Australian portraiture.
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Joanna Gilmour explores the extraordinary life of Australian female aviator Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Sally Douglas 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE 2008
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.
The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.
