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Polly Borland

Australian photographer, Polly Borland, describes the hectic experience of photographing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Now and then

Photographed 35 years apart, these two portraits offer both a timeline of, and thematic thread for, Maria (Polly) Cutmore’s life – from a young woman to a respected Gomeroi Elder.

Ron Mueck, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

Pat Cash, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

Polly Borland, 2015

Polly Borland on Germaine Greer

Recorded 2017

Professor Germaine Greer, 1999

Purchased 2001

Sir Alec Nigel Broers, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

John Hillcoat, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

Bruce Gyngell, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

Geoffrey Roland Robertson, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

Yvonne Denise Kenny, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

Leanne Benjamin, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

John Williams, 2000 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

Toni Collette, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

Sir Robert May AC KT, 1999

Purchased 2001

Elle Macpherson, 2000

Purchased 2001

Her Majesty, The Queen, Elizabeth II (Blue), 2001

Purchased 2021

HM Queen Elizabeth II, 2001

Purchased 2002

Golden Jubilee

Polly Borland's photograph of The Queen was commissioned by Buckingham Palace as part of a series of high profile celebrations to mark the Golden Jubilee.

Michael Hutchence, 1997

Purchased 2000

Portrait story

Photographer Polly Borland on capturing Queen Elizabeth II.

John Farnham, 1996

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2000

Natalie Imbruglia, 1999

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001

Kylie Minogue, 1999

Purchased 2000

Clive James, 1999

Purchased 2001

Sir Les Patterson, 1999

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001

Rolf Harris, 1999

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2001

Maria Polly Cutmore, 2021

Purchased 2022

Dame Bridget Margaret Ogilvie, 1999 (printed 2022)

Purchased 2022

Maria, 1986 (printed 2013)

Purchased 2013

Confide in Me

This article examines the photographic portraiture of Polly Borland.

Polly Borland

Polly Borland: Australians, is an exhibition of 54 new portraits of significant Australians who have made a contribution to British life and who have largely made their home or based their professional life in the UK

Polly Borland on Queen Elizabeth II

Recorded 2017

Polly Borland on Michael Hutchence

Recorded 2017

Portrait 6

This issue of Portrait Magazine features articles about the NPG's Barry Humphries exhibition and Polly Borland's portrait of The Queen.

Portrait 5

This issue of Portrait Magazine features Bill Leak's portrait of Robert Hughes, Polly Borland's photographs, Bill Brandt, Andy Thomas, Tracey Moffatt and more.

Beauty and strength

Influential Indigenous Australian artist Michael Riley (1960 - 2004) created these portrait photographs between 1984 and 1990 - they stand as an intricately connected group portrait of the vibrant urban-based Indigenous arts community in Sydney's inner-west at a formative moment.

Portrait 69

In conversation with Aretha Brown, Pieter Roelofs on Vermeer, humanoid robots, the nationwide search for Archibald portraits, and 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait 67

William Yang on his autobiographical self portraits, David Parker's 1970s and 80s Melbourne music photographs, seven-time NPPP finalist Chris Budgeon, and Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis.

Bryan Brown, 2008

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Rarely Everage

The exhibition begins with Barry's childhood in Camberwell, Melbourne and chronicles his days as a struggling actor in Australia and England, his creation of characters including Barry McKenzie, Dame Edna Everage, Sandy Stone and Sir Les Patterson

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.

Depth of Field

Over the last five years the National Portrait Gallery has developed a collection of portrait photographs that reflects both the strength and diversity of Australian achievement as well as the talents of our photographers.

Arthur Boyd Portraits

This is the first in a series of National Portrait Gallery exhibitions to survey the portraits painted by artists who are not thought of, primarily, as portrait painters

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.

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.

Australian of the Year

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

Getting bare

How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.

Sophisticated and glamorous

Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.

Meeting by Murder

The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.

NPPP 2016 exhibition essay

Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.