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Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.
Directors of the National Portrait Gallery from 1998 to today.
Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.
Gift of the artist 2022
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Tegan McAuley looks at the evolution of video portraiture.
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
Paul Kelly & The Portraits presents a multifaceted image of the performer over the course of his career.
Aspects of singer songwriter Paul Kelly’s performance persona are communicated by portraits selected from a range of artists and leading music photographers in this focus exhibition.
Commissioned with funds provided by Ian Darling 2013
In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.
Warwick Thornton (b. 1970) is a Kaytetye man, writer, director and cinematographer.
2 portraits in the collection
Wayne Blair (b. 1971), director, actor and writer, became interested in acting and dance while a high school student in Rockhampton in the 1980s.
1 portrait in the collection