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Purchased 2018
Gift of Morris Low 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Open Air is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them.
The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.
The considered matching of artist to subject has produced an amazing collection of unique and original works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Former NPG Director Andrew Sayers discusses the art of commissioning portraits.
Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2002
Tim Johnson, Sydney-based artist, was part of a circle of urban conceptual artists in the 1970s.
4 portraits in the collection
Leeanne Crisp (b. 1950) was born in Adelaide, where she attended the South Australian School of Art and gained an advanced diploma from the Western Teacher's College in 1972.
3 portraits in the collection
Bruce Pollard (b. 1936), gallerist, established the Pinocotheca Gallery in a St Kilda mansion in 1967, and relocated it to an old hat factory in Richmond in 1970.
1 portrait in the collection