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Robert Gray, 1978

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2017

Portrait of Jill Neville, 1967 (completed 1997)

Gift of the artist 2002

Lost in thought, 2008

Pamela See (Xue Mei-Ling)

Born: 1979, Brisbane
Works: Brisbane

Making Chinese Shadows (sixteen silhouette portraits), 2018

Purchased 2019

Wat A Che, 2017

Purchased 2019

Mrs Lup Mun, 2017

Purchased 2019

Yip Hoy, 2017

Purchased 2019

Captain Ah Gim, 2017

Purchased 2019

Chang Woo Gow, 2017

Purchased 2019

Ah Young, 2017

Purchased 2019

Jimmy Ah Foo, 2017

Purchased 2019

Tim Sang, 2017

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

Lula Chinn, 2017

Purchased 2019

Andrew Leon, 2017

Purchased 2019

Quong Tart, 2017

Purchased 2019

Gugug Go Tack, 2017

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

George Chow Bow, 2017

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

James Chung Gon, 2017

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

Adam’s Prize Apples

Pamela Gerrish Nunn explores New Zealand’s premium award for portraiture.

Emma Tear Tack, 2017

Purchased 2019

Lowe Kong Meng, 2017

Purchased 2019

Kay Cottee, 1993

Gift of the artist 1999

Ann Moyal, 1957

Gift of Ann Moyal 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

The Honourable Margaret Lusink AM, 2019

Gift of The Honourable Margaret Lusink AM 2021

Pamela and Colin McPherson

Melissa Madden Gray, at home

Artist interviews

Lucie

The works I chose are Quong Tart by Pamela See, and Monga Khan by Peter Drew.

Jane Kennerley (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Mary Hassall (née Rouse), c. 1850

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Elizabeth Rouse (copy of drawing by William Griffith), c. 1847

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Pamela Glasson 2012
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Self portrait, 1911

Gift of Pamela Thalben-Ball 2007

Contributing artists

Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.

Mary Hassall (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

About Headspace

Both making and exploring art involve a form of thinking that opens the way to multiple systems of knowing and experiencing.

Eleanor Wingate (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Robert O'Hara Burke, Leader of the Victorian Expedition, 1860-1861

Purchased with funds provided by Ross A Field 2007

Cate Blanchett, 2002 (printed 2004)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Robert O'Hara Burke, c. 1860

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001

Gillian Armstrong AM, 1973

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003

Headspace 1

Headspace showcases portrait art produced by secondary students from Year 7 to Year 12 in Government, Catholic and Independent schools in Canberra and its surrounding regions extending to Wollongong, Deniliquin, Leeton, Crookwell, Bombala, Narooma and Albury

Inside Heide’s lives

Happiness to heartache

Sir John Eccles, 1959

Gift of an anonymous donor 2007

Elizabeth Henrietta Fitzgerald (née Rouse), c. 1850

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

Paquita Mawson, late 1940s

Gift of Gareth Mawson Thomas and Pamela Karran-Thomas of the Mawson family 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Douglas Mawson, 1933

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Gareth Mawson Thomas and Pamela Karran-Thomas of the Mawson family 2010
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Donors

George Tjungurrayi, 2002

Gift of Pamela Hansford 2007. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

In the mirror: self portrait with Joy Hester, 1939

Gift of the artist 1999. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

2014-15 Acquisition Fund

Kristin Headlam's portrait of Chris Wallace-Crabbe was acquired with the support of the Circle of Friends in 2014.

Richard Rouse (copy of drawing by William Griffith), c. 1847

Gift of Pamela Glasson 2009
Collected by Leila Haigh (nee Rouse)

So Fine

This exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history, enriching the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.

Gillian Armstrong, 1985

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

Portrait Donors

Glossy - Faces Magazines Now

Magazines are the portrait galleries of the 90s... Glossy is about magazines. The exhibition presents the work of eight photographers, Australian by birth or long-term residency, who are producing portraits for publication in magazines around the world.

Cocky McGrath

The long life and few words of a vice-regal cockatoo

Dr Brown and Green Old Time Waltz, 1983

Gift of the Estate of Harold Thornton 2009

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.

Australians in Hollywood

Although perceived to be a recent phenomenon, the 'Aussie invasion' of Hollywood can actually be traced as far back as the early 1900s

Forum participants

Biographies of participants in the Writing lives, revealing lives forum.

Australian of the Year

The Australian of the Year Awards have often provoked controversy about who is selected and whether their achievements are remarkable.

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.

NPPP 2009 exhibition essay

Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2009 Prize.

Australian Visit

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.

So Fine

The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce its winter exhibition is So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history. It will open to the public from 29 June 2018.

The elegant thinker

Sarah Engledow pens a fond farewell to acclaimed science historian Ann Moyal.

Lovers of light

Dr Sarah Engledow traces the significant links between Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo and Evelyn Chapman through their portraits.

So Fine

Ten women artists explore the possibilities of portraiture as a contemporary art form; and reinterpret and reimagine Australian history in the Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history.

Mrs Cameron and the V&A

In March 2003 Magda Keaney travelled to London to join the photography section of the Victoria & Albert Museum for three months.

Great Scots

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

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.

Where the wild things are

Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.

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.

Australians in Hollywood

The exhibition Australians in Hollywood celebrated the achievements of Australians in the highly competitive American film industry.

Written in Water

Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, photographers and conservationists, shared a love of photography and exploring wilderness areas of Tasmania.

Diamond Doll

Karen Vickery delights in a thespian thread of the Australian yarn.

Finding Mrs Frisby

Robyn Sweaney's quiet Violet obsession.

Kiwi magpie

Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.

What price self?

Jane Raffan investigates auction sales of self portraits nationally and internationally.

The 'I' in Indigenous art

Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.

Demimonde liaisons

Jane Raffan feasts on modernity’s entrée in the Belle Époque theatre of the demimonde.

The personal and the historical

Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.