A major new exhibition celebrating love in all its guises. Opening 20 March 2021.
Revealing the backstories behind the NPG collection, Before hand features interviews with artists and sitters as well as working drawings, scrapbooks, sketches and footage taken in artists’ studios and out on location.
Penelope Grist’s spirits soar with Lisa Tomasetti’s Dancers in the Streets series.
The following on-line and physical exhibitions are planned to open at the National Portrait Gallery in coming months. For those who can’t travel at present, selected works from all exhibitions will be included online
Tedi Bills on how social media in the age of COVID-19 has fanned the flames of our portrait fascination.
When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.
Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister describes the trajectory of his relationship with dance.
Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister AM will join the Portrait Gallery’s national collection in a newly-commissioned portrait taken by illustrious Australian photographer, Peter Brew-Bevan.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016
David McAllister AM (b. 1963) is the Artistic Director of the Australian Ballet.
2 portraits in the collection
