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Between Light and Shadow

The late Australian photographer Stuart Campbell produced superb photographs of Australian actors of stage and screen.

Kayla, 2017

Shaymaa, 2017

Gori, Bougainville, 2009

Youthful intrigue, 2014

Bill

Strong Avenue, Graceville, Brisbane

Guy Stuart, January 1979, 1979 (printed 2012)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

The Triffids, Sydney, c.1986

INXS, Sydney 1985

Divinyls, Sydney, c.1988

The essence of you

Lee Tulloch remembers her great friend NIDA-trained actor turned photographer Stuart Campbell.

Stuart O'Grady, 2008

Commissioned 2008

John Gaden, n.d.

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

Anna Volska, n.d.

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

Nick Enright, n.d.

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

Bruce Spence, n.d.

Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012

Peter O'Doherty, 2013

Ellyse Perry, 2018

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

Belinda Giblin, n.d.

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

Gillian Armstrong, 1985

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

Kerry Walker, c. 1979

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

Colin Friels, n.d.

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

Graeme Murphy, n.d.

Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012

Richard Tognetti, c. 1985

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

Russell Crowe, 1995 (printed 2016)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

The play’s the thing

Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.

Marc Hunter, Dragon. Sylvania Hotel, Sydney c. 1979

Ian Moss, Cold Chisel, Sylvania Hotel, Sydney, c. 1980

Chrissy Amphlett, Sydney, c.1988

Ningali Lawford-Wolf, 1996 (printed 2016)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2016

Dorland Bray and Deborah Conway, Do-Re-Mi. Sydney c.1985

Mark Seymour, Hunters and Collectors, Phoenician Club, Sydney '92

Julie Mostyn, Flaming Hands, The Cronulla Workers' Club, Sydney, c. 1981

Lord Viscount Sydney, c. 1790

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Winning in technicolor

Alistair McGhie writes about the portraits of three of Australia's top professional cyclists: Cadel Evans, Stuart O'Grady and Robbie McEwen painted by Matthys Gerber.

The First Ministry under Responsible Government in New South Wales, 1856

Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

Bonfire of the vanities

Australian Galleries Director Stuart Purves tells the story of two portraits by John Brack.

The Australasian Federal Convention at Sydney, 1884

Purchased 2015

Stuart, 2008

Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Lord George Stuart, 9th Seigneur of Aubigny

The Mosh Pit

More photographs by Bob King, Stuart Spence, 'pling, Tony Mott, and Wendy McDougall.

Portrait 39

This issue features the National Photographic Portrait Prize, Neil Murray, Lee Tulloch on Stuart Campbell, Joseph Banks, Scott Redford and more.

Gone to heaven, 2010

Portrait 30

This issue of Portrait Magazine features the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery, Cadel Evans, Stuart O'Grady, Robbie McEwen, Casey Stoner, Bruce Petty and more.

Portrait in grey

Stu, 2010

Ned, 2011

Intimate Portraits

Intimate Portraits is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints that explore the less public side of portraiture

David McAllister to join National Portrait Gallery collection

Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet, David McAllister AM will join the Portrait Gallery’s national collection in a newly-commissioned portrait taken by illustrious Australian photographer, Peter Brew-Bevan.

Professor Leslie Wilkinson, 1970

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 1999

Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and King James II

Portrait of Tam Purves, 1958

Purchased 2012

Tim Storrier, 1995

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

James Morrison with flugelhorn, 1994

Purchased 1999. Courtesy of the Corrigan family and Stuart Purves.

The Dance - David McAllister, 2016

Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016

Sketchbook journal for the commission portrait "The Dance - David McAllister", 2016

Commissioned with funds provided by The Stuart Leslie Foundation 2016

Icons Syndicate

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Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize 2023

Little Darlings is for primary and secondary students, with four separate categories across Kindergarten to Year 12. Responding to the theme ‘Me and my place’, students painted, drew, photographed, printed or combined all of these to make their portrait.

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Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize 2022

Little Darlings is for primary and secondary students, with four separate categories across Kindergarten to Year 12. Responding to the theme ‘identity’, students painted, drew, photographed, printed or combined all of these to make their portrait.

Harold David Takes out the People’s Choice Award for this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize

The votes are in and the National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce The Honourable Bob Hawke savouring a strawberry milkshake by Harold David is the people’s choice for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018.

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.

Dora Byrne, 1951

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Leslie Walford AM 2013

Eric Douglas, c. 1930

Gift of Sally Douglas 2009

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

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.

Collection: 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.

2020 Annual Appeal

In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

In its second year at the National Portrait Gallery, and for the first time touring to other venues, the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 continues to present surprising perspectives on the nature of contemporary portrait photography.

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.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

Images for media use will be available from 8 March 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.

The 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize

Shea Kirk’s portrait of friend and fellow-artist Emma Armstrong-Porter has won the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.

Selfhood transcended

Anne Sanders and Christopher Chapman bring passionate characterisation to Express Yourself, the Portrait Gallery collection exhibition celebrating iconoclastic Australians.

Annual Appeal

The Royal she

Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.

The news from Washington

Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.

Political profiles

Joanna Gilmour examines the prolific output of Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, and discovers the risk of taking a portrait at face value.

Finding Mrs Frisby

Robyn Sweaney's quiet Violet obsession.

Portrait Donors

Of ice and men

Frank Hurley's celebrated images document the heroism and minutiae of Australian exploration in Antarctica.

Back in black

Krysia Kitch reviews black chronicles at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

20 20

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

The importance of being bearded

Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.

The more things change...

Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.

You are who?

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

Everybody, look serious

Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.