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Clive Shakespeare, 1975 (printed 2001)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Sherbet, 1974 (printed 2002)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Sherbet, 1974

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

The artist Marc Clark, 2019

Tim Fairfax AC, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018

Steve Waugh, 2001

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002

Lady Flo, 2011

Clive James, 1999

Purchased 2001

Clive Blazey, 2004

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005

Sir Clive McPherson, early 1950s

Gift of the Estate of Marion Orme Page 2016

Shakespeare to Winehouse

From Shakespeare to Winehouse, Darwin to Dickens, the Beatles, Brontë sisters and Beckham, the National Portrait Gallery London holds the world’s most extensive collection of portraits.

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Announcing Shakespeare to Winehouse

More than eighty treasures from the National Portrait Gallery London will travel to Canberra for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from March 2022.

Tim Fairfax, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018

Slow Motion @ 300kms per hour Mark ‘Sparky’ Webber, Formula 1 Driver, 2016

Slow Motion @ 300kms per hour Mark 'Sparky'™ Webber, Formula 1 Driver, 2016

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

John Bell, 1962 (printed 2006)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006

Study for John Bell as King Lear, 1998-2001

Gift of the artist 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

POL

POL was a magazine that ran from 1969 to 1986

Plenty, 2009

Monkey business, 2011

Penelope Seidler, 2019 (printed 2021)

Purchased 2021

Harry and Penelope Seidler, 15 December 1958

Gift of Penelope Seidler AM 2021

The Lambert

Barbering manuals of the turn of the century might describe this style as a ‘Van Dyck’, named after the Dutch painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) who is known to have adopted this look.

Study for a portrait of Dame Merlyn Myer DBE, 1960s

Gift of the Estate of Marion Orme Page 2016

Recognition

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

Inner Worlds

Portraits of Australia’s pioneering psychologists and artworks by artists fascinated by the subconscious mind.

Margaret Fink, 1989

Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Selected images

Take a peek at a selection of the portraits you can see in the exhibition.

Let’s dance

Emma Batchelor uncovers the compelling contemporary dance made in response to the works in Shakespeare to Winehouse.

Lear unbuttoned

Sarah Engledow steps up to the footlights and applauds the storyline behind Nicholas Harding's portraits of actor John Bell.

Bee Miles, 1976

Gift of Brian Griffin 2000

Now & then

Photographed 60 years apart, these portraits trace the lives and love story of Penelope Seidler AM and Harry Seidler OBE.

Jane Campion, 2009

Purchased 2011

Geoffrey Rush, 1997

Purchased 1999

Jacki Weaver, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018

The ICONS Syndicate

Annual membership of the ICONS Syndicate is $5,000 and you are invited to join by making a tax-deductible donation to the National Portrait Gallery.

Jacob Nash, 2017

Gift of the artist 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Portrait 66

The Huxleys, National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces, Jennifer Higgie on portraits of women by women, Tamara Dean, Bangarra, Glynis Jones on fashion photographers, and NPG/NGV collaboration.

Barry Jones, 1998

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2000

Portrait 67

William Yang on his autobiographical self portraits, David Parker's 1970s and 80s Melbourne music photographs, seven-time NPPP finalist Chris Budgeon, and Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis.

Golden Jubilee

Polly Borland's photograph of The Queen was commissioned by Buckingham Palace as part of a series of high profile celebrations to mark the Golden Jubilee.

Nicholas Harding

Nicholas Harding: 28 portraits features paintings of Robert Drewe, John Bell and Hugo Weaving alongside gorgeously coloured recent oil portraits, delicate gouaches and bold ink and charcoal drawings.

Form and reality

A photographic portrait by Kerry Dundas captures the contemplative mind of visionary painter Godfrey Miller.

Talking heads

In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.

NPG Announces departure of Director, Karen Quinlan AM

National Portrait Gallery Chair Penny Fowler announced today that NPG Director Karen Quinlan will leave the Gallery in September to take up a new position as Chief Executive Officer of Arts Centre Melbourne.

Take thy face hence

Joanna Gilmour travels through time to explore the National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces in Shakespeare to Winehouse.

National Portrait Gallery unveils twenty new portrait commissions to celebrate twenty years

The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.

Super League

The portrait of Ian Roberts by Ross Watson.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020

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.

Alina Gozin'a

An interview with the photographer.

Icons

When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.

Hottie's Snifter to port

Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.

Jacki Weaver, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018

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.

Australian of the Year

The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.

Love my way

Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.

Announcing.... In their own words

Inspiring Australians tell their own stories in a unique new gallery audio tour, developed in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.

Australian Visit

The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.

Past directors

Directors of the National Portrait Gallery from 1998 to today.

Waterloo and Mrs. Moore

Beyond the centenary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli, a number of other notable anniversaries converge this year. Waterloo deserves a little focussed consideration, for in the decades following 1815 numerous Waterloo and Peninsular War veterans came to Australia.

Risky business

John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.

The world of Thea Proctor

The world of Thea Proctor was the National Portrait Gallery's second exhibition to follow the life of a single person, following Rarely Everage: The lives of Barry Humphries.

Top shot that

Gideon Haigh discusses portraits of Australian cricketers from the early 20th century

Flash mob

Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.

In the flesh

An exhibition of humanness in ten themes by Penelope Grist.

Bill and Ted's excellent portrait.

Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.

Agnes enigma

Karen Quinlan considers the case of Agnes Goodsir, whose low profile in Australia belies her overseas acclaim.

The art of Inner Worlds

Dr Christopher Chapman NPG Curator of Inner Worlds explains the development of an exhibition that spans from Surrealism to contemporary art.

Drawing inspiration

Christopher Chapman absorbs the gentle touch of Don Bachardy’s portraiture.

The Lawrence lustre

Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Good, bad and the ugly

Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.

Money for Myth

Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.

All dressed up

Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?

20 20

Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Getting bare

How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.

Earth to earth

Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.

The incomparable Beaton

To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).

20/20 launch speech

Dr Helen Nugent AO, Chairman, National Portrait Gallery at the opening of 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.

Presence and absence

The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.

Through thick and thin

Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.

Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits

Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.

Portrait Donors

Inner Worlds 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.