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Shirley Purdie

Born: 1947, Gilbun – Mabel Downs Station, WA
Works: Warmun, WA

Leah King-Smith

Born: 1957, Gympie, QLD
Works: Brisbane

Presenting… Shirley Purdie’s Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe

The National Portrait Gallery this week launches an online exhibition of Shirley Purdie’s remarkable self-portrait Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe to coincide with Reconciliation Week.

Contributing artists

Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.

Ben Roberts-Smith, 2018

Commissioned in 2018 with funds raised through the 2020 project

Storytelling

The fourth row of paintings interweave Ngarranggarni, memories, relationships and Country.

2012-13 Acquisition Fund

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

Ngarranggarni

The third row of paintings come from Ngarranggarni (Dreaming).

Extraordinary airmen make aviation history

Charles is my wingman

Icons Syndicate

Skin names

The first row of paintings depict stories relating to kinship, introducing significant women relatives.

Memories

The second row of paintings recall stories relating to specific sites, experiences and activities.

2015-17 Acquisition Fund

From 2015 to 2017 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on Reg Richardson AM by Mitch Cairns, a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2014, and a great example of minimalist portraiture.

William Robinson

Unique in the world, perhaps, is a bronze sculpture that fuses the age-old human portrait bronze tradition, and the later genre of the bronze pug figurine: that’d be William Robinson’s Self-portrait with pug.

2013-14 Acquisition Fund

This 1910 portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts by Tom Roberts was brought into the Gallery's collection with the assistance of the Acquisition Fund in 2013.

2021 Annual Appeal

In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.