Featuring more than two-hundred works by Australian artists, the exhibition explores our inner worlds and outer selves, as well as issues of sociability, intimacy, isolation, celebrity and ordinariness.
National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan AM nominates her quintet of favourites from the collection, with early twentieth-century ‘selfies’ filling the roster.
Art, war, scandal
Recorded 1965
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Lin Bloomfield 2017
Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.
Jude Rae’s high reputation rests on her austere, cerebral still lifes of gas canisters, electric jugs and jars, which she groups and rearranges for paintings that catch their difficult curves and reflections. Her self-portrait’s likewise thoughtfully composed.
Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of June Lahm 2015
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the family in memory of Penne Hackforth-Jones 2014
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
Australian artist, Nora Heysen, discusses her childhood and the development of her career.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Andrew Sayers asks whether a portrait can truly be the examination of a life.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
