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Gift of Dr Gene Sherman AM in memory of Brian Sherman AM (1943-2022). Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program 2023.
Purchased with funds provided by Patrick Corrigan AM 2016
Dr Gene Sherman AM (b. 1947) is Chairman and Executive Director of Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, a family philanthropic enterprise dedicated to the public exhibition of significant contemporary art from Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.
3 portraits in the collection
Purchased with funds provided by Patrick Corrigan AM 2016
Brian Sherman AM (1943–2022) was a leading philanthropist, company director and animal rights activist.
2 portraits in the collection
Ondine Sherman (b. 1974), author and animal rights activist, grew up in Sydney and attained her undergraduate degree in communications from University of Technology Sydney.
1 portrait in the collection
Emile Sherman (b. 1972), film producer, graduated from the University of New South Wales before beginning his career with a documentary about his great-great-uncle Chatzkel, a Lithuanian Jew who lived through both world wars and the Bolshevik revolution.
3 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
Gift of the artist and Yanping Zhu 2022. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
It is with deep regret, but great pride, that the National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the decision of its Deputy Chairman to resign from the Gallery’s Board, to focus on a new international role as co-Chair of the Tate Asia Pacific Acquisitions Committee.
Purchased with funds provided by Dr Gene Sherman AM and Patrick Corrigan AM 2016
Purchased with funds provided by Dr Gene Sherman AM and Patrick Corrigan AM 2016
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Gene Sherman AM and Brian Sherman AM 2012
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Gift of Dr Gene Sherman AM and Brian Sherman AM 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Gift of Dr Gene Sherman AM and Brian Sherman AM 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
A new portrait commission of Australian Rugby great, Ken Catchpole OAM by Gary Grealy will be officially unveiled on 3 December.
Gift of Dr Gene Sherman AM and Brian Sherman AM 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Adam Chang (Hong Jun Zhang) (b. 1960), in a Sydney based portrait painter.
2 portraits in the collection
A vibrant expression of Chinese culture and reflection on contemporary portraiture, drawn from the Uli Sigg collection.
Purchased with funds provided by Dr Gene Sherman AM 2016
Purchased with funds provided by Dr Gene Sherman AM 2016
This issue features Cindy Sherman, Tim Storrier, Brett Whiteley and Patrick White, contemporary Chinese portraiture, Charles Blackman and more.
Eva Respini focuses on the ‘society portraits’ in MOMA’s Cindy Sherman retrospective.
Dr Anne Sanders worked as the curatorial researcher at NPG begining in 2010.
Exhibited simultaneously at the two locations, Go Figure! is drawn from the Sigg Collection, the largest and most significant collection of contemporary Chinese art anywhere in the world.
Crystal Gazing: Headspace V, the fifth in the National Portrait Gallery's program of secondary student portrait exhibitions, invites students from Canberra and the surrounding regions to explore the possibilities of portraiture
Sarah Engledow arrives at the junction of fate and hope in Sarah Ball’s poignant Immigrants series.
Shaun Gladwell (b. 1972), new-media artist, photographer and painter, gained his qualifications in art at Sydney College of the Arts and the University of New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Susan Stitt ACS has worked extensively in the international film and commercial industries, working on feature films, and shooting prestigious campaigns for over 30 years.Stitt has specialised in the intricacies of lighting and exploring the possibilities of colour.
1 portrait in the collection
Born 1963, Handan, Hebei Province China. Lives and works in Beijing.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Paul Partos (1943-2002) came to Australia with his family in 1949, spending six months in a Perth orphanage before being reunited with his parents for their move to Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Gift of the artist 2017
Suzanne Cory AC (b. 1942) is a molecular biologist whose research has contributed to the understanding of immunology and the development of cancer.
1 portrait in the collection
Brian Cadd (b. 1946), singer/songwriter, had been a member of 1960s Melbourne band The Groop before forming Axiom, the band for which he wrote the hits 'Arkansas Grass' and 'A Little Ray of Sunshine' at the dawn of the 1970s.
1 portrait in the collection
Born 1983, Chongqing, Sichuan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
A short overview of modern Chinese art from 1949 to the present.
Growing up feeling isolated, ostracised and ornate in the heated homogeny of the suburbs of Perth and the Gold Coast we often longed and dreamed for an escape.
Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.
Born Li Zhirong 1968, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times and author of Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, presented the National Portrait Gallery Third Anniversary Lecture on 2 March 2002. He was generously brought to Australia by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Qantas.
Portraits from the Sigg collection, from 1979 to the present including painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation.
Born 1965 in Beijing. Lives and works in Beijing.
Born 1958, Kunming, Yunnan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
Delve into the lives, loves and labour of the world’s most prominent portrait galleries in this international conversation series.
Born 1966 in Beijing, China. Lives and works in Beijing.
Dr Christopher Chapman explores the symbolism in the portrait commission of Marcia Langton by Brook Andrew.
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
An interview with the photographer.
The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.
Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.
Dr. Sarah Engledow tells the story of Australia's first Federal statistician, Sir George Knibbs.
Fiona aims to create a dangerous situation with a flood of water on the paper, forcing each work to the point where it can fail, and then rescuing it.
Sarah Engledow describes the fall-out once Brett Whiteley stuck Patrick White’s list of his loves and hates onto his great portrait of the writer.