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Ningali Lawford-Wolf

Recorded 1996

Ningali Lawford-Wolf, 1996 (printed 2016)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2016

Crowned Madonna with kids, 2013

Felix, Petty Cash Café Marrickville, 2019

Blue Wolf, 2014

Finalist, MDPA 2014

Wolf Blass, Wolf Blass Wines, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2001

Dancer

From letting loose in the loungeroom to enthralling audiences on stage, this exhibition celebrates dance and dancers.

Powerful Indigenous women

June Oscar AO lauds three iconic Aboriginal figures in the Portrait Gallery collection who have inspired and influenced her.

Jack Charles

Recorded 2022

Jack Charles, 2011

Purchased 2013

The play’s the thing

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

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.

Drawing inspiration

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

The Viceroyalty of New Spain

European painters always enjoyed a good deal of latitude in the representation of angels, those asexual, bodiless, celestial regiments of God, so long as they were young and beautiful.

All dressed up

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

Natural born stiller

Penelope Grist speaks to Robert McFarlane about shooting for the stars.

Staying home

Joanna Gilmour brings a mindful Douglas Mawson’s perspective to bear on the concept of isolation.

Anna Culliton

Anna Culliton never had a colouring-in book when she was little. Her parents –Tony, a filmmaker, and Stephanie, a painter – wouldn’t let her have one. Instead, they insisted on her drawing her own pictures to colour-in. 

The Thyssen Art Macabre

Books seldom make me angry but this one did. At first, I was powerfully struck by the uncanny parallels that existed between the Mellons of Pittsburgh and the Thyssens of the Ruhr through the same period, essentially the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Everybody, look serious

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