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Tim Fairfax, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018

An international troupe of two

Office romance

Blue Wolf, 2014

Finalist, MDPA 2014

Our only concern is the void, 2013

Winner, MDPA 2013

Bangarra brothers: songman, storyteller, dancer

Creative kin

The Last Paul Mumme Work, 2015

Finalist, DPA 2016

Favourite portraits

National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.

The Lawson

It’s curious that one of the writers most associated with the toughness of Australian bush life was himself not an exponent of the matted, rugged bushman sort of beard.

The Parkes

It wasn’t uncommon for the pro-beard fraternity of the mid nineteenth century to cite beards as a sign of wisdom on the grounds that Socrates and other ancient philosophers had worn them.

The 1890s to the 1940s

Although the tough, weathered, hard-drinking bushmen of the kind mythologised by writers like Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson are popularly associated with the character of late nineteenth century Australia, it was also a time when alternative ideas about identity began to come into play.

Maritime disaster leaves poignant picture

Absence rends the heart asunder

2012-13 Acquisition Fund

The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.

In the most correct style

Desirable outcomes, undesirable origins

Street fare

The late Georgian and early Victorian working classes often bought their food in ale-houses, chop-houses and ‘penny pie shops’, or purchased their meals day after day in the streets.

Supporters

National Portrait Gallery unveils twenty new portrait commissions to celebrate twenty years

The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.