Sarah-Jane 'Sass' Clarke (b. 1974) and Heidi 'Bide' Middleton (b. 1971) are the founders of the fashion label sass and bide.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2008
Sarah-Jane 'Sass' Clarke (b. 1974) and Heidi 'Bide' Middleton (b. 1971) are the founders of the fashion label sass and bide.
1 portrait in the collection
Kenneth Gillespie (1929–2010), ballet dancer and teacher, left his native Launceston as a teenager to join the Borovansky Ballet in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015
Join The Saturday Paper’s chief political correspondent, Karen Middleton, for A Month of Saturdays – afternoon conversations bringing current affairs experts to the Gallery for engaging, real-time discussions about the topics that matter.
Francis Gardiner (Christie) (1830-c. 1903), bushranger, came to New South Wales with his family as a child.
1 portrait in the collection
Portraits of philanthropists in the collection honour their contributions to Australia and acknowledge their support of the National Portrait Gallery.
Scott Redford discusses his dynamic portrait commission of motorcycling champion and 2008 Young Australian of the Year Casey Stoner.
This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.
The Darling Prize is a new annual prize for Australian portrait painters, painting Australian sitters. The winner receives a cash prize of $75,000.
The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.
Dr Christopher Chapman NPG Curator of Inner Worlds explains the development of an exhibition that spans from Surrealism to contemporary art.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.
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