Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2014
Ben Quilty (b. 1973), painter, gained bachelor’s degrees in painting and visual communication at Sydney College of the Arts and the University of Western Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Andrew Quilty left school after completing Year 10 in 1999, and went to study photography at TAFE, graduating in 2004.
1 portrait in the collection
This exhibition seeks to explore the nature of portraiture, providing an investigation into the importance of likeness to contemporary portraits.
Michael Desmond worked at the National Portrait Gallery first as Senior Curator from 2006 to 2011 then as Deputy Director until 2012.
The Australian painter Ben Quilty discusses his approach to portraiture.
Cherry Hood (b. 1950), is an artist well known for her haunting, large-scale images of faces.
2 portraits in the collection
Margaret Olley AC (1923-2011), painter, studied art at East Sydney Technical College and the Grande Chaumière in Paris.
6 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of The Hammond Care Group 1999
Gift of the artist 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford (1920/1924–2007), also known as Goowoomji or Guwumji, artist and Gija elder, was born on Bedford Downs Station, near Warmun in Western Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
Bequest of Nick Enright AM 2004
Curator Michael Desmond introduces the exhibition Truth and Likeness, an investigation of the importance of likeness to portraiture.
Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
Over the last five years the National Portrait Gallery has developed a collection of portrait photographs that reflects both the strength and diversity of Australian achievement as well as the talents of our photographers.
Drawn from some of the many donations made to the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Portraits for Posterity pays homage both to the remarkable (and varied) group of Australians who are portrayed in the portraits and the generosity of the many donors who have presented them to the Gallery.
