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Now and Then

Spanning 30 years, these portraits capture a life in music. Violinist, conductor and composer Richard Tognetti AO is Artistic Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

Time and light

This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.

Illuminating history

Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.

You are who?

Joanna Gilmour reflects on merging collections and challenging traditional assumptions around portraiture in WHO ARE YOU.

Bill Henson

Recorded 2021

Living Memory – National Photographic Portrait Prize extended to January 2022

In light of recent and ongoing gallery closures brought on by the COVID pandemic, the NPG’s 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition season will be extended until 16 January next year.

Living Memory

The 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.

The look and the feel

Editor Stephen Phillips looks at the finalists' photographs through a judge's lens.

Bill Henson

Photographer Bill Henson describes creating his three part portrait of Simone Young.

Prima facie

Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.

Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018

Portrait 58

Paul Cézanne, Bill Henson and Simone Young, Australian cinema’s iconic women, and feminist portraits by Kate Just.

Conduct becoming

Penelope Grist speaks to Bill Henson and Simone Young to discover the origins of the artist’s stunning photographic triptych.

History

How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be

Richard Tognetti, c. 1985

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012

Speed demon

Scott Redford discusses his dynamic portrait commission of motorcycling champion and 2008 Young Australian of the Year Casey Stoner.

Making Portraits

The considered matching of artist to subject has produced an amazing collection of unique and original works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery

The spirit of the gift

Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers celebrates the support given to the Gallery by Gordon and Marilyn Darling.

On commission

Former NPG Director Andrew Sayers discusses the art of commissioning portraits.

Simone Young, 2002

Commissioned with funds provided by the Farrell Family Foundation and the Basil Bressler Bequest 2002

Simone Young

Simone Young

Simone Young

Athol Shmith, 1985

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999