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Petite beauty marries gentle giant

Books, beets and heat

Portrait Donors

Janet Dawson’s painting of Michael Boddy gives paws for thought

Bronwyn Watson writes about Summer 1986 for the Popular Pet Show.

Janet Dawson

When soulmates Janet Dawson and Michael Boddy moved from Sydney to a property, Boddy was clear about why: ‘Our marriage is one long conversation - we moved to the bush so we could talk to each other without so many interruptions.’

Tribute

Bob Ellis (1942–2016) was a journalist, columnist, screenwriter, film director, playwright, speechwriter and critic.

The Bare story

Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be

Getting bare

How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.

Michael with beetroot sprouting, 2008

Purchased 2015

Figurative foundation

Joanna Gilmour explores the life and art of the Australian artist Janet Dawson.

To Look Within

This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present

Janet Dawson, Paddington, Sydney, 1966 (printed 2000)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

Study for portrait of Bob Ellis, 1999

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of David Naseby 2001

Study for portrait of Bob Ellis, 1999

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of David Naseby 2001

Bob Ellis, 1999

Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001

Summer 1986, 1986

Purchased 2000, part gift of Michael Boddy

Self portrait, between 1951 and 1953

Gift of the artist 2000