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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

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Heide Smith

Heide Smith took up photography as a young girl in Germany in 1948, when her uncle gave her a Zeiss Ikon camera.

3 portraits in the collection

Tarcissius, 2006 by Heide Smith

Tarcissius, 2006

'Mal' Meninga, Rugby League

'Mal' Meninga, Rugby League

'Mal' Meninga, Rugby League

'Mal' Meninga, Rugby League, 1991 (printed 2017)

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph, hand coloured on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017

Dymphna Clark

Dymphna Clark

Dymphna Clark

Dymphna Clark, 1991

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005

Manning's red socks

Manning's red socks

Manning's red socks

Manning's red socks, 1989 (printed 2012)

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Heide Smith 2012

Surrounded by music, 2008 by Heide Smith

Surrounded by music, 2008

In the mirror: self portrait with Joy Hester

Inside Heide’s lives

It's Complicated

Happiness to heartache

Sidney Nolan

Sidney Nolan

Sidney Nolan

Sidney Nolan, 1964

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2003

Janine Burke, c. 1980

Janine Burke

Janine Burke (b. 1952) art historian, biographer, novelist and curator, graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1974.

1 portrait in the collection

Self portrait

Nolan Heads

Previous exhibition, 2001

Nolan Heads will focus on the portraiture of one of Australia's most original painters and one of the few to have achieved an international reputation

Bruce Armstrong

Bruce Armstrong

Bruce Armstrong (1957-2024) was a sculptor, painter, printer and charcoal artist.

2 portraits in the collection

Sidney Nolan, Western Australia

Sidney Nolan, Western Australia

Sidney Nolan, Western Australia

Sidney Nolan, Western Australia, 1962 (printed 2000)

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001.

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Danila Vassilieff

Danila Vassilieff, born in Russia, arrived in Australia in the early 1920s having served in a Cossack cavalry regiment, been captured by Communist forces and escaped via Persia and India to China.

1 portrait in the collection

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Jacqueline Mitelman

Jacqueline Mitelman (b. 1952), photographer, was born in Scotland and moved to Australia with her family at the age of five.

23 portraits in the collection

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Francis Reiss

Francis Reiss (1917-2017), portrait photographer and photojournalist, was born in Hamburg and educated in Germany, England and the USA before joining London's Picture Post as a staff photographer.

11 portraits in the collection

Sir Keith Murdoch

Sir Keith Murdoch

Sir Keith Murdoch

Sir Keith Murdoch, 1944

Danila Vassilieff

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Serafin Martinez and Thai Loi 2013

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