Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John McPhee 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John McPhee 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned 2009
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
I met Clara while teaching photomedia at the University of Tasmania last year. One of her assignments focused on her relationship with her former boyfriend, who she now works for as his live-in carer.
Ernest Walter Histed was born in Brighton, UK, but made his reputation as a photographer in Chicago and later in Pittsburgh.
1 portrait in the collection
Amy Castles (1880–1951), soprano, was born in Melbourne and educated at schools in Bendigo, where her family lived from the early 1880s.
4 portraits in the collection
Domesticity’s creative maelstrom
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Jim and Barbara Higgins 2012
Portraits of Australia’s pioneering psychologists and artworks by artists fascinated by the subconscious mind.
Originally conceived as an anthropological record, Percy Leason’s powerful 1934 portraits of Victorian Aboriginal people are today considered to be a highlight of 20th century Australian portraiture
The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Anne Sanders finds connections in Inner Worlds between Hungarian expatriates and the development of psychoanalysis in Australia.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
Dr Christopher Chapman NPG Curator of Inner Worlds explains the development of an exhibition that spans from Surrealism to contemporary art.
Christopher Chapman takes a trip through the doors of perception, arriving at the junction of surrealism and psychoanalysis.
Inner Worlds evokes a broad view of psychology as a discipline. However, the specific interests of the practitioners whose portraits are included in the exhibition incorporate specialist areas including psychoanalysis.
Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.
