The then Minister for the Arts and Sport, Rod Kemp, reflects on the value of the Cultural Gifts Program.
To celebrate Peter Sculthorpe's 80th birthday, the National Portrait Gallery has created a feature exhibition of portraits and associated biographic material drawn from the National Portrait Gallery and the composer’s personal collection.
![[Self-portrait], 1996](/files/5/e/2/e/i2030-slq.jpg "[Self-portrait], 1996")
The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.
The acquisition of David Moore's archive of portrait photographs for the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.
When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
A photographic portrait by Kerry Dundas captures the contemplative mind of visionary painter Godfrey Miller.
Masters of fare: chefs, winemakers, providores celebrates men and women who have championed the unique culinary characteristics and produce of Australia, enriching our lives with new ideas and new flavours over the past forty years.
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
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.
I met Kaloti Parmjit the day I took the photo. I first visited the Sikh temple in the suburb of Glenwood to take photos as part of a social documentary project I'm undertaking for the State Library of NSW.
Michelle Fracaro describes Lionel Lindsay's woodcut The Jester (self-portrait).
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Naomi Cass, Director of the Centre of Contemporary Photography, in conversation with Anne Zahalka.
