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The Honourable Margaret Lusink AM, 2019

Gift of The Honourable Margaret Lusink AM 2021

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

Sir George Young Kt, Admiral of the White Squadron, 1814

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Captain Matthew Flinders RN, 1814

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

Captain Matthew Flinders RN, 1814

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012

Ah Young, 2017

Purchased 2019

Jimmy Ah Foo, 2017

Purchased 2019

Chang Woo Gow, 2017

Purchased 2019

Tim Sang, 2017

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

Andrew Leon, 2017

Purchased 2019

Quong Tart, 2017

Purchased 2019

Lula Chinn, 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.

Pamela and Colin McPherson

Reverend George Brown DD, 1905

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Nancy Joyce 2014

Lucie

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

Albert Namatjira

The art and landscape of Albert Namatjira.

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)

Transition: Nikki & Nick, 2011

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)

Artist interviews

Eleanor Wingate (née Rouse), c. 1850

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

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

George Tjungurrayi, 2002

Gift of Pamela Hansford 2007. 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.

2015-17 Acquisition Fund

From 2015 to 2017 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on Reg Richardson AM by Mitch Cairns, a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2014, and a great example of minimalist portraiture.

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

Blow Back, 2018

Gift of the artist 2024. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program.

About Headspace

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

Portrait Donors

Cocky McGrath

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

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.

Be frank

Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.

Boyd to man

Christopher Chapman looks at influences and insight in the formative years of Arthur Boyd.

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.

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.

International issue

Michael Desmond looks at the history of the Vanity Fair magazine in conjunction with the exhibition Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008

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.

Indexing, the art of

The first index I created was for my first book, and, to my astonishment, that was almost twenty-five years ago.

Finding Mrs Frisby

Robyn Sweaney's quiet Violet obsession.

Kiwi magpie

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

The 'I' in Indigenous art

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

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.