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Tom Bass

Recorded 1965

Tom Bass, 1996

Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Moonbird boy, 2009

Fanny Jane Marlay, c. 1841

Purchased 2013

Oui-re-kine, 1807-1817

Purchased 2009

Captain John Lort Stokes, c. 1841

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Woureddy [Wurati], a wild native of Brune Island, 1835

Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2009

Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land, 1835

Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2009

Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes folio atlas (second edition), 1824

Purchased 2017

Edward Henty, late 19th century

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Tim Clark 2018

Head studies: Preparatory study for 'Nothing's as precious as a hole in the ground', 2001

Commissioned with funds from the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001

Creatures of Leisure, 1982

Steve Kilbey, 1981 (printed 2018)

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018

Trukanini, 1866 (printed 1890s)

Purchased 2011

Captain Matthew Flinders RN, 1814

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

Tim Rogers (You Am I), 1995

Gift of the artists 2003

Russell Hopkinson (You Am I), 1995

Gift of the artists 2003

Andy Kent (You Am I), 1995

Gift of the artists 2003

Captain Matthew Flinders RN, 1814

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014

Dave Tice, 1978 (printed 2018)

Purchased 2018

Trukanini, n.d.

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Allanah Dopson and Nicholas Heyward 2009

The Saints, 1978 (printed 2018)

Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018

Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land, 1835

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

Sherbet, 1974 (printed 2002)

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

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

POL

POL was a magazine that ran from 1969 to 1986

Painting mates

Michael Desmond discusses Fred Williams' portraits of friends, artist Clifton Pugh, David Aspden and writer Stephen Murray-Smith, and the stylistic connections between his portraits and landscapes.

Elegance in exile

Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.

The Seekers, 1993

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

William Robertson, 1866

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Malcolm Robertson in memory of William Thomas Robertson 2018
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Trucaninny [Trukanini], wife of Woureddy [Wurati], 1836

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

The Seekers reunite 50 years on, 2011

Gift of Judith Durham, Athol Guy, Keith Potger and Bruce Woodley 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

Graham Kennedy and the Seekers in Melbourne, c. 1968

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2007

Seduce and Destroy

Magda Keaney explores the symbolism in eX de Medici's portrait of Midnight Oil.

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.

Uncommon Australians

This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.

Boyd to man

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

Brothers on farms

Malcolm Robertson tells the family history of one of Australia's earliest patrons of the arts, his Scottish born great great great grandfather, William Robertson.

Mental as everything

Chris O'Doherty, also known as Reg Mombassa, is best-known for his Mambo imagery but he also paints a lot of self portraits.

The Multifarious Career of George Selth Coppin

George Selth Coppin (1819-1906) comedian, impresario and entrepreneur, was a driving force of the early Australian theatre.

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.

Sea legged frogs

Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.

The Rothschilds, the Montefiores, and the Victorian Gold Rush

Some years ago my colleague Andrea Wolk Rager and I spent several days in the darkened basement of a Rothschild Bank, inspecting every one of the nearly 700 autochromes created immediately before World War I by the youthful Lionel de Rothschild.

Maria Caroline Brownrigg

At first glance, this small watercolour group portrait of her two sons and four daughters by Maria Caroline Brownrigg (d. 1880) may seem prosaic, even hesitant