Tegan McAuley looks at the evolution of video portraiture.
Bill McAuley began his career as a photographer for newspapers and magazines in Melbourne in 1969.
9 portraits in the collection
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Purchased 2010
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Purchased 2010
Christopher Chapman examines the battle of glamour vs. grunge which played out in the fashion and advertising of the 1990s.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.
Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be
Karen Vickery delights in a thespian thread of the Australian yarn.