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Mr Don Baker, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Ms Natasha Grishin, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Ms Sylvia Dropulich, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Professor Anthony Milner, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Dr Andree Rosenfeld, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Professor John Passmore, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Professor Patrick Troy, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Professor Peter Karmel, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Dr Virginia Hooker, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Professor Bernhard Neumann, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Professor Iain Wright, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Professor George Dracoulis, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Professor Iain McCalman, 1996

Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Recorded 1969

Chris Wallace-Crabbe, 2011

Purchased with the assistance of funds provided by the Circle of Friends 2014

Kristin Headlam with Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Artist Kristin Headlam and poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe discuss their art.

Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, 2007

Commissioned 2007

Justice Robin Millhouse, Maslin Beach, South Australia, 1992-1993 (printed 2019)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

The Member of the Upper House "One of the Olden Time" [The Hon. John Alston Wallace M.L.C.], 1874

Purchased 2016

Radical Restraint
Justice Michael Kirby, 1998

Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001

Life in art, 2019

Future Australian, 2009

Don Dunstan, 1992-1993 (printed 2019)

Gift of the artist 2019

Jeanne Little, 1994 (printed 2021)

Purchased 2021

Adam Scott by Robin Sellick

An interview with photographer Robin Sellick about his portrait of golfing champion Adam Scott.

Robin Boyd

Recorded 1962

Amanda Vanstone, 2002

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004

Molly Meldrum, 2004

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004

Bill Northam, 1964 (printed 2004)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004

Lleyton Hewitt, 1998

Gift of the artist 2004

Adam Scott: at Sanctuary Cove Golf Course, 2006

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

Steve Irwin, 2005

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006

Shane Warne, 2006

Purchased 2006

Harry Kewell, 2006

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

Mark Webber, 2006

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

John Newcombe, 2006

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2006

John Olsen, 1993

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004

Bert Newton, 2006

Gift of the artist 2006

a Traveller (2nd Baron Lamington), 1892

Purchased 2015

Robin Boyd, 1970

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Sir Roderick Carnegie 2003

Crikey!

Robin Sellick captured a rare moment of quietude from the late conservation star Steve Irwin.

The golden girls: Jodie Henry, Lisbeth 'Libby' Trickett (née Lenton), Giaan Rooney, Alice Mills, Brooke Hanson, Leisel Jones, 2004

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Celebrities on the field

Robin Sellick's portraits of Australian sportspeople include Harry Kewell, Adam Scott, Shane Warne, Mark Webber and John Newcombe.

Lady Jessie and Sir Donald Bradman, Kensington Park, Adelaide, South Australia, 1992-1993 (printed 2019)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2019

Robin Eley

Robin Eley studied Fine Arts at Westmont College, USA and began his career as a professional illustrator. Eley was a finalist in the Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize in 2010 and his work was Highly Commended in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize in 2010 and 2011.

Making Sense of Place #4 (Portrait of Professor George Seddon), 2007

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Marli Wallace 2010
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.

More about In the flesh artists

The exhibition features work from Jan Nelson, Natasha Bieniek, Patricia Piccinini, Juan Ford, Petrina Hicks, Ron Mueck, Yanni Floros, Sam Jinks, Michael Peck and Robin Eley.

The morticians, 2014

Grow the Portrait Gallery of Australia

The Portrait Gallery is calling for contributions to support in the acquisition of superb portraits for the national collection.

The Bee Gees, Kings Cross, 1970-1971

Purchased 2021

The Assumption of Virginity, 2014

Finalist, MDPA 2014

Alienation

Segregated from their fellow humans in cellophane prisons, reference points are removed, so it is not certain whether these naked figures could be unwrapped, are about to be subsumed, or will forever be suspended in a plastic stasis.

Confessional conversations

Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.

In the flesh

In the flesh is an enthralling and immersive experience of contemporary art that confronts the concept of humanness and the experiences of consciousness and emotion. Featuring ten Australian artists including Jan Nelson, Patricia Piccinini, Ron Mueck and Michael Peck, the exhibition explores themes of intimacy, empathy, transience, transition, vulnerability, alienation, restlessness, reflection, mortality and acceptance.

In the Flesh

Press releases and image downloads for media.

A good innings

Childhood sweethearts

Barry Gibb, 1970-1971

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Face the Music

Australia has become recognised for the range and talent of its musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities in general associated with the music industry

John Hamilton, 1969

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of John Hamilton 1999
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Andrew Southall, 1992

Gift of the artist 2005. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Disillusion self portrait, 1983

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Robin MacQueen 2007

Australia's Creative Diaspora

Paris based Australian photographer and filmmaker Nathalie Latham has an ongoing interest in the creative achievements of other Australian artists living in various locations around the globe.

Headspace 7

Headspace 7: Me and My Place, the seventh in the National Portrait Gallery's series of student exhibitions, will be presented at Commonwealth Place. Me and My Place is the curatorial theme for the 2006 exhibition.

Kristin Headlam

Basil grew into a speckled beauty – a long-legged leaper and an exceptionally vocal dog, with a great register of sounds, ascending in shock value from a whimper to a growl to a bark to a yelp that’s a violation of the ears.

Anne Boyd, 1977

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Elle Macpherson, 2000

Purchased 2001

Basil Hetzel, 2007-2008

Commissioned with funds provided by Mrs Diana Ramsay AO 2008

2013-14 Acquisition Fund

This 1910 portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts by Tom Roberts was brought into the Gallery's collection with the assistance of the Acquisition Fund in 2013.

Flash

Introduction The National Portrait Gallery’s photographic exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus explores various interpretations of Australian sporting men and women.

In Bloom

Explore the beauty and symbolism of flowers in this weird and wonderful floral extravaganza that showcases more than 50 portraits from the collection, new acquisitions and selected loans.

Portrait Donors

Mark Strizic

This exhibition traces the creative output of nearly 50 years by one of Australia's landmark living photographers.

Famous

Australian photographer Karin Catt has photographed world leaders, a host of rock stars and Oscar-winning compatriots Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, and Cate Blanchett.

Ready , set... shoot

The exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus offers various interpretations of sporting men and women by five Australian photographers.

Melbourne experience

Diana Warnes explores the lives of Hal and Katherine 'Kate' Hattam through their portraits painted by Fred Williams and Clifton Pugh.

Frank Fenner AC CMG MBE, 2007

Commissioned with funds provided by Mr Anthony Adair and Ms Karen MacLeod 2007

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.

More about In the flesh

In the flesh is realised through moments of intimacy, empathy, transitions in life and the transience of life, vulnerability, alienation, restlessness, self-reflection, mortality and acceptance.

Russell Crowe, 1995 (printed 2016)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016

Poet of the Fleeting Moment

Mark Strizic's work crosses a broad spectrum of photographic fields including urban, industrial, commercial, and architectural photography. 

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.

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.

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.

Darren McDonald

The wild balancing act of McDonald’s home décor (is that there as a joke? where do I actually sit down? is this ironic or what? what a lovely photo of Darren and Robin in Europe!) is reflected in his own personality.

Portrait of Professors Margaret Gardner and Glyn Davis, 2017

Commissioned with funds provided by Jim and Barbara Higgins, Sir Roderick Carnegie AC, Rupert Myer AO and Annabel Myer, Louise and Martyn Myer Foundation, Peter and Ruth McMullin, Diana Carlton, Professor Derek Denton AC, Harold Mitchell AC, Peter Jopling AM KC, Andrew and Liz Mackenzie, Patricia Patten, Tamie Fraser AO, Bruce Parncutt and Robin Campbell, Lauraine Diggins, Steven Skala AO and Lousje Skala 2017

School portraits

Inga Walton sheds light on a portraiture collection usually only seen by students and teachers at Melbourne University.

The mystery of Enoch Arden

Tennyson's Enoch Arden was inspired by a story that Thomas Woolner passed on to him – but whose story and of whom?

Dr Brown and Green Old Time Waltz, 1983

Gift of the Estate of Harold Thornton 2009

Face the music

Drawn from the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Face the Music explores the remarkable talents and achievements of Australian musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities associated with the music industry.

On the road again

Deborah Hill talks figures with character, as the National Portrait Gallery touring exhibitions program welcomes its millionth visitor.

In and out of focus

Gael Newton looks at Australian photography, film and the sixties through the novel lens of Mark Strizic.

About grace

Penelope Grist finds philanthropy and fashion underpin the story of Susan Wakil AO.

Where the wild things are

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

Robyn Sweaney

Robyn's parents had two terriers, Wuff and Snuff. In spite of Snuff’s ominous name and a couple of close shaves – once, he jumped out of a moving car, and another time, on a long road trip, he was accidentally left behind at a petrol station – he outlived Wuff.

Rick Amor: 21 Portraits

Sarah Engledow chronicles Rick Amor's work and accomplishments in this extensive essay in conjunction with the exhibition Rick Amor: 21 Portraits.

Black and white history

English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.

For the boys

The photographs from Matthew Sleeth's tour of duty series look more like advertisements than images of war.

To arrive at hope

Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.

In the flesh

An exhibition of humanness in ten themes by Penelope Grist.

Australians in Hollywood

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

Stubbs and the horse

One of the chief aims of George Stubbs, 1724–1806, the late Judy Egerton’s great 1984–85 exhibition at the Tate Gallery was to provide an eloquent rebuttal to Josiah Wedgwood’s famous remark of 1780: “Noboby suspects Mr Stubs [sic] of painting anything but horses & lions, or dogs & tigers.”

Written in Water

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

Finding Mrs Frisby

Robyn Sweaney's quiet Violet obsession.

Portraiture in a Bleak House

It may seem an odd thing to do at one’s leisure on a beautiful tropical island, but I spent much of my midwinter break a few weeks ago re-reading Bleak House.

Little women

Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters’ true grit.

Poise and Carats

I keep going back to Cartier: The Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia next door, and, within the exhibition, to Princess Marie Louise’s diamond, pearl and sapphire Indian tiara (1923), surely one of the most superb head ornaments ever conceived.

The Bare story

Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be