Clive Shakespeare formed the soul/Tamla Motown cover group the Downtown Roll Band in 1968.
3 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Russell Shakespeare (b. 1963) has photographed well-known Australians from a wide range of fields, including writers Tim Winton and Colleen McCullough, sports people Steve Waugh and Stephanie Gilmore, and former politicians Gough Whitlam and Bob Brown.
2 portraits in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Clive Blazey (b. 1944) is the founder and managing director of the Digger's Club, Australia's largest gardening club, with about 40 000 members.
1 portrait in the collection
Clive James AM (1939-2019), writer, broadcaster and critic, grew up in Sydney, attending Hurstville Opportunity School, Sydney Tech.
1 portrait in the collection
Sir Clive McPherson (1884-1958), pastoralist and businessman, was the son of a bank manager, and his mother was a pianist who came from a pastoral family.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2001
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Marion Orme Page 2016
Experience a little bit of luxury and a whole lot of love with the Midnight Hotel Shakespeare to Winehouse Package.
Join Joanna Gilmour, Sheridan Burnett and Penny Grist as they reveal the exclusive secrets behind bringing Shakespeare and his friends from London to Canberra.
Experience a little bit of luxury and a whole lot of love with the Midnight Hotel Shakespeare to Winehouse Package.
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.
Listen in on our tour for visitors who are blind or have low vision. Join us in the Gallery as we explore artworks from our special exhibition, Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London with audio descriptions.
Alan Sandow (b. 1952), drummer, joined Clive Shakespeare in the initial Sherbet lineup in 1969, before Daryl Braithwaite joined the band.
3 portraits in the collection
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.
Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018
Take a peek at a selection of the portraits you can see in the exhibition.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019
John Bell AO OBE (b. 1940), actor and director, is one of Australia's best-known theatre personalities.
3 portraits in the collection
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Shakespeare to Winehouse: Icons from the National Portrait Gallery, London
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
As long as it for personal use, you can take photos of any of the portraits (except the ones with the No Photos icon or in the Shakespeare to Winehouse exhibition).
From pearls, jewels and silk to a self-portrait all about flesh, join us for a feast of portraits from Shakespeare to Winehouse where opulence, prowess and oil painting collide.
This school holidays, remember to hop (like Peter Rabbit) into our play plot! Inspired by Beatrix Potter’s portrait in our special exhibition, Shakespeare to Winehouse.
Anna Volska (b. 1944), actor, came from Poland to Australia with her mother when she was seven.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
POL was a magazine that ran from 1969 to 1986
Little is known of John Chapman, who engraved fine allegorical subjects after the designs of J Smith and Richard Corbould and worked closely with Thomas Macklin on his Shakespeare series.
2 portraits in the collection
Geoffrey Rush (b.1951) actor; born in Toowoomba; was awarded Best Actor Academy Award in 1998 for his portrayal of the emotionally damaged pianist in Shine; was rocketed from respected, though obscure, Australian stage actor to international film star.
1 portrait in the collection
Calling on Canberra Cathies! Help celebrate Canberra’s sixth The Most Wuthering Heights Day ever and our special exhibition, Shakespeare to Winehouse, featuring a beautiful portrait of the Brontë sisters.
Sir Cecil Colville (1891-1984), medical practitioner, was the first president of the Australian Medical Association.
1 portrait in the collection
AD Hope OBE (1907-2000), poet, literary critic and academic, was educated at Sydney University before winning a scholarship to Oxford.
2 portraits in the collection
Billy Slater (b. 1983), rugby league footballer, has played for Melbourne Storm since the beginning of his career in 2003.
1 portrait in the collection
Coral Browne (1913-1991) was an Australian actress who left for England in 1934.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2021
Beatrice (Bee) Miles (1902-1973) ranks alongside the 'Eternity man' as one of Sydney's best-remembered street personalities, and featured in the State Library's 'Sydney Eccentrics' exhibition in 1999.
1 portrait in the collection
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.
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
Gift of the Estate of Marion Orme Page 2016
Nathan Kelly (b. 1976), photographer, studied fine arts at the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney before being named as one of Australia’s top 30 photography graduates by Australian Commercial Photography magazine.
3 portraits in the collection
Portraits of Australia’s pioneering psychologists and artworks by artists fascinated by the subconscious mind.
Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Take a peek at a selection of the portraits you can see in the exhibition.
Margaret Fink (b. 1933), film producer, was a key figure in the renaissance of Australian cinema in the 1970s.
2 portraits in the collection
James Heath commenced an apprenticeship with an engraver named Joseph Collyer at the age of fourteen.
2 portraits in the collection
Penelope Seidler AM (b. 1938), architect, is one of three children of barrister and state parliamentarian Clive Evatt QC (1900–1984) and his wife Marjorie.
2 portraits in the collection
Sarah Engledow steps up to the footlights and applauds the storyline behind Nicholas Harding's portraits of actor John Bell.
Join us from wherever you are for our Curator, Joanna Gilmour in conversation with Jennifer Higgie, author of ‘The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience, Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits’.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Brian Griffin 2000
John Gaden AM (b. 1941), actor, studied arts and law at the University of Sydney, but when he joined the Sydney University Players, he abandoned his other pursuits for the stage.
1 portrait in the collection
Charles Kean (1811-1868), actor, threw in his Eton education when his mother was deserted by his penniless father, the tragedian Edmund Kean.
1 portrait in the collection
Purchased 2011
Purchased 1999
Jacob (Jake) Nash, production designer, is Head of Design at Bangarra Dance Theatre.
1 portrait in the collection
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018
Join Australian photography curator, historian and writer, Helen Ennis for a conversation about photographers challenging the conventions of personal and public space in their portraits.
Meredith Rogers, theatre director and academic, studied at the University of Melbourne and worked between 1974 and 1979 with Kiffy Rubbo at the Ewing and George Paton Galleries.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Australia has become recognised for the range and talent of its musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities in general associated with the music industry
Gift of the artist 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Deborah Mailman AM (b. 1972), Bidjara and Māori (Ngāti Porou and Te Arawa) actor and singer, is the daughter of Maori and Aboriginal parents who met when her father was touring on the rodeo circuit.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2000
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.
Here’s where your students will discover Australia’s most creative and innovative thinkers and achievers.
A YGen to IGen Across Borders project by Newcastle’s Catapult Choreographic Hub, Canberra’s Australian Dance Party and QL2 Dance.
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.
Anthony Charles Carden (1961–1995), activist and actor, became interested in performance while a school student at Knox Grammar, Wahroonga.
1 portrait in the collection
A photographic portrait by Kerry Dundas captures the contemplative mind of visionary painter Godfrey Miller.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
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.
The portrait of Ian Roberts by Ross Watson.
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.
An interview with the photographer.
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.
Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018
Live, interactive learning programs coming soon wherever you are.
The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.
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.
Inspiring Australians tell their own stories in a unique new gallery audio tour, developed in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.
John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.
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.
Gideon Haigh discusses portraits of Australian cricketers from the early 20th century
Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.
An exhibition of humanness in ten themes by Penelope Grist.
Karen Quinlan considers the case of Agnes Goodsir, whose low profile in Australia belies her overseas acclaim.
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
Dr Christopher Chapman NPG Curator of Inner Worlds explains the development of an exhibition that spans from Surrealism to contemporary art.
Christopher Chapman absorbs the gentle touch of Don Bachardy’s portraiture.
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.
Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.
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).
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
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.
