Shakespeare to Winehouse open 9:00am–7:00pm on Thu, Fri, Sat from 7 July
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves: who we read, who we watch, who we listen to, who we cheer for, who we aspire to be, and who we'll never forget. The Companion is available to buy online and in the Portrait Gallery Store.
The NPPP is an annual prize for Australian photographers. The year’s most outstanding photographic portrait is awarded a $30,000 cash prize. Entries for 2022 are now closed.
Impressions: Painting light and life presents portraits by, and of, artists at the heart of Australian impressionism including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin.
Purchased 2021
Wenten Rubuntja AM (1923–2005) was an Arrernte law man, committee and board member, artist, historian, storyteller and intermediary.
2 portraits in the collection
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Born: 1977, Letterkenny, Ireland
Works: Melbourne
Mark Mohell has been Image Services Manager at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra since 2010.
1 portrait in the collection
Jenny Sages (b. 1933), artist, was born to Russian Jewish parents in Shanghai and came to Australia with her family in 1948.
33 portraits in the collection
Barrie Cassidy pays textured tribute to the inimitable Bob Hawke.
All you need to know from COVID-19 and group sizes to cancellations and our Certificate of Currency.
An interview with the photographer.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012