National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.
More than eighty treasures from the National Portrait Gallery London will travel to Canberra for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from March 2022.
Nathan Faiman delves into the rich life story and legacy of Alan Goldberg.
Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
Gift of Warwick Evans 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Office romance
Absence rends the heart asunder
Desirable outcomes, undesirable origins
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.
Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Alexandra Roginski reveals a forceful feminist figure in the colonial period’s slippery science, phrenology.
Purchased 2019
