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Olly's Trolly, Freddie's Brushes, 1989

Gift of the artist 2001

Portrait of Johnson Pilton Walker, Inside the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 25 Hours 31 minutes, 22-23rd of May 2009, 2009 (printed 2010)

Purchased with funds provided by the Circle of Friends 2009

Alex Perry, 2016

Gav & Ray, 2007

Strikethrough (self portrait), 2014

Oliver Cromwell

Don Walker, 2006

Max Walker, 1976 (printed 2010)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010

Sue Walker, 1977

Gift of the artist 2003. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Don Walker, Songwriter, 2021

Gift of the artist 2023

Kerry Walker, c. 1979

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

Anna Frances Walker, c. 1865

Purchased 2022

Adela Russell Walker, 1864

Purchased 2022

Lloyd Rees, 1973

Purchased 1999

Sir George Grey, c. 1845

Purchased 1999

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes, 2020

Gift of the artist 2021

Dame Elisabeth Murdoch

An interview with Victorian Tapestry Workshop artists Sue Walker and Christopher Pyett.

Mrs Grey, c. 1845

Purchased 1999

Sir John Franklin, c. 1846

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2015

Thinking about architecture and portraiture

Dr Christopher Chapman describes the experimental exhibition Portraits + Architecture

Johnson Pilton Walker

Sydney-based practice Johnson Pilton Walker designed the new National Portrait Gallery building.

Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal), 1965

Gift of Richard Brian Close, Githabul people, Woodenbong 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Book a wheelchair or walker

Wheelchairs and walkers are available at no charge. Please ask our friendly staff at the Information Desk or book here online. Wheelchair access is available in our public spaces, with lift access from the underground to the public ground level.

Kath Walker part one

Recorded 1976

Kath Walker part two

Recorded 1976

Untitled, 2013

Finalist, MDPA 2013

The spirit walker, 2017

Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Noonuccal) and Lowitja O’Donoghue at the opening of the inaugural National Aboriginal Conference, Canberra, 1978 (printed 2014)

Purchased 2015

The silent spectre of motion (Le spectre silencieux du movement), 2012

Finalist, iD2012

First Conservative Whip (Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood Bart MP), 1903

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Men of the Day No. 25 "Baronet or butcher" (Sir Roger Doughty Tichborne), 1871

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Statesmen No. 83 "By birth a man, by inheritance a Marquis and a Governor by his Sovereign's favour, he fills all his positions with credit" (Marquis of Normanby), 1871

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

New South Wales (Earl of Jersey Victor Albert George Child-Villiers), 1890

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Kismet (Mr Oscar Asche), 1912-1913

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The Cape High Commissioner (Sir Henry Brougham Loch), 1894

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Peace and War (Mr A. G. Hales), 1908

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

W. A. (Sir John Forrest), 1897

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The Australian Commonwealth (Henry Stafford Northcote), 1904

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Closer to Heaven, 2013

Portraits + Architecture

This exhibition explores creative process and identity.

The Tangles

According to an 1981 Australian Women’s Weekly profile of fast bowler Dennis Lillee, a moustache was a ‘compulsory’ accessory for sportsmen.

Small Holdings (The Earl Carrington Baron Charles Robert Carrington), 1907

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

The Lord Chamberlain (Earl of Hopetoun John Adrian Louis Hope), 1900

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Statesmen No. 20 "A Returned Colonist" (Rt Hon. Hugh C.E. Childers), 1869

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Australia (The Hon. Alfred Deakin), 1908

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Sydney (Sir Daniel Cooper), 1882

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Dan (Sir Daniel Cooper), 1890s

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

a squatter (Sir Samuel Wilson), 1885

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Jessie Whyte, c. 1840

Purchased 2017

Phil (Phil May), 1895

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Richard Johnson 23 May 2009 3:07PM

Frank Wootton, c. 1908

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Police (Lieut Colonel Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson), 1875

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Nothing black and white about the Greys

Marriage: a prolonged disaster

First High Court of Australia, c. 1903

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

International Penny Postage (Mr John Henniker Heaton MP), 1887

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

New South Wales (Earl Beauchamp), 1899

Gift of Ronald A Walker 2009. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Friendship’s rhyme and reason

Poetic trio

Architecture

Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker

Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal Tribe, 1992 (printed 2009)

Gift of the artist 2010

Oodgeroo Noonuccal at Moongalba, 1982

Purchased 2004

Oodgeroo Noonuccal at Moongalba Stradbroke Island (her sitting down place)1982, 1982

Gift of the artist 2009

Kate Fitzpatrick, 1983

Purchased 2003

Westralia (Mr Albert Frederick Calvert), 1895

Gift of Ronald Walker 2002

Portrait of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 2000

Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2000

Australia (Sir Edmund Barton), 1902

Gift of Mr Ronald Walker 2001

Icons Syndicate

Oz Punk

In 1976, without having been blooded on the Sydney or Melbourne pub circuit, The Saints recorded a single – ‘(I’m) Stranded’ – earning them the distinction of releasing a punk single before The Sex Pistols did.

Master Johnny Day, Australian Champion Pedestrian, c. 1866

Purchased 2014

In the round

Andrew Sayers outlines the highlights of the National Portrait Gallery's display of portrait sculpture.

iD Digital Portraiture Award winner announced

The inaugural winner of the $10,000 iD Digital Portraiture Award was announced this morning at the National Portrait Gallery.

Past present

Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.

Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award media information

The National Portrait Gallery recently announced the finalists for the Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2013.

On a human scale

The design concepts behind the new National Portrait Gallery building in Canberra.

To Look Within

This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present

Charles Blondin, 1874

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018

Visiting at a quiet time

Access support for visitors with sensory sensitivities or autism.

Is the truth of portraiture vested exclusively in likeness?

Curator Michael Desmond introduces the exhibition Truth and Likeness, an investigation of the importance of likeness to portraiture.

Husbands and Wives

'I have just been to my dressing case to take a peep at you.

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.

Making Portraits

The considered matching of artist to subject has produced an amazing collection of unique and original works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery

Krystal Seigerman

The photograph was a brief, candid moment, which unfolded into a portrait. Peter and I were in Silverton, NSW, chatting as our students explored the town. The weak afternoon light suddenly became dramatic and defined, so I asked Peter if I could take his portrait.

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.

Stevie

Gregory McBean writes about photographing recent ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, singer Stevie Wright.

L. Gordon Darling AC CMG

The Chairman, Board, Director and all the Staff of the National Portrait Gallery mourn the loss of our Founding Patron, who died peacefully in Melbourne this morning. He was 94.

Activating the space

Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.

The 1950s to the present day

Certain European leaders (needless to name) had the effect of making certain styles of facial hair decidedly undesirable in the years immediately after World War 2.

The alchemist’s profile

John Zubrzycki meets Australian paint pioneer Jim Cobb.

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.

Relaxed mornings

Access support for a visiting the Gallery before the general 10:00am opening time.

Uncommon Australians

This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.

Sideshow Alley

Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.

Anthony Anderton

An interview with the photographer.

Portrait Donors

Louise Whelan

I met Kaloti Parmjit the day I took the photo. I first visited the Sikh temple in the suburb of Glenwood to take photos as part of a social documentary project I'm undertaking for the State Library of NSW.

Eating the seasons

Anne Sanders imbibes Tony Bilson’s gastronomic revolution.

Exposed: Voyeurism Surveillance and the camera since 1870

The Tate/SFMOMA exhibition Exposed examined the role of photography in voyeurism and how it challenges ideas of privacy and propriety.

More cash than dash

Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.

The cost of living luxuriously

In 1904, the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia purchased as a gift for her sister, Queen Alexandra, a fan composed of two-color gold, guilloché enamel, mother-of-pearl, blond tortoiseshell, gold sequins, silk, cabochon rubies, and rose diamonds from the House of Fabergé in Saint Petersburg.

In the galleries

Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.

Painting writing

Dr Sarah Engledow explores the portraits of writers held in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.

Hump days

Jessica Bolton navigates the parallel tracks documenting Robyn Davidson’s astonishing journey.

Profile of a marriage

Dr Sarah Engledow explores the lives of Sir George Grey and his wife Eliza, the subjects of a pair of wax medallions in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.

Great Scots

Diana O’Neil samples the tartan treats on offer in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Getting a head

Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.

A spectral sentience

Aimee Board reveals method, motivation and mortality in the portraiture of Rod McNicol.

History

How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be

Everybody, look serious

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

Uncommon Australians

Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.

The Rothschilds, the Montefiores, and the Victorian Gold Rush

Some years ago my colleague Andrea Wolk Rager and I spent several days in the darkened basement of a Rothschild Bank, inspecting every one of the nearly 700 autochromes created immediately before World War I by the youthful Lionel de Rothschild.