National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan AM nominates her quintet of favourites from the collection, with early twentieth-century ‘selfies’ filling the roster.
To celebrate the new exhibition Australian Love Stories, renowned Australian glass artist Harriet Schwarzrock has been commissioned to make a large-scale installation reflecting on the role the heart plays as our emotional centre.
A major new exhibition celebrating love in all its guises. Opening 20 March 2021.
Just good friends?
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Denis Savill 2017
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
Long after the portraitist became indifferent to her, and died, a beguiling portrait hung over its subject.
Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.
Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Purchased with funds provided by Harold Mitchell AC
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
