Cherry Hood (b. c. 1950), is an artist well known for her haunting, large-scale images of faces.
3 portraits in the collection
Gift of Marion Borgelt 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Tim Olsen 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood Bart MP (1853-1917) was MP for West Somerset from 1892 to 1911, when he was created Lord St Audries.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ronald Walker 2002
Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
Magda Keaney examines the 123 Faces project by Simon Obarzanek.
Simon Tedeschi (b. 1981), award-winning classical pianist, grew up in Sydney, and essentially abandoned his school lessons as an adolescent to concentrate on his piano studies with Neta Maughan.
1 portrait in the collection
This display sets two impressive portraits from the collection into direct dialogue: Sam Jinks’ sculptural self portrait and Nick Mourtzakis’ painted portrait of David Chalmers, along with related maquette and sketches.Together they explore physical and psychological manifestations of the strata of self-hood.
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.
Dissections, showcases the hyper-realist sculptural self-portrait of artist Sam Jinks, Divide, alongside the painted portrait of philosopher David Chalmers by Nick Mourtzakis, which was commissioned by the Gallery in 2011.
Errol Flynn (1909-1959), actor, was born in Hobart, where his father was a biology lecturer, and spent his childhood in Tasmania, England and Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
The National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
Anna Volska (b. 1944), actor, came from Poland to Australia with her mother when she was seven.
1 portrait in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018
