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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

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Losing Faith, 2004 by Alexandra Cody

Headspace 5

Previous exhibition, 2004

Crystal Gazing: Headspace V, the fifth in the National Portrait Gallery's program of secondary student portrait exhibitions, invites students from Canberra and the surrounding regions to explore the possibilities of portraiture

Albert and his wife Rubina, Macdonnell Ranges

Rubina Namatjira

Rubina (Ilkalita) Namatjira (1903–1974) was a Kukatja woman and the wife of famous Western Arrernte artist Albert Namatjira.

1 portrait in the collection

Caroline Zilinsky and John Feitelson

Caroline Zilinsky and John Feitelson

John is a very unique character so I really wanted to capture that uniqueness.

Marcia Langton

Collection in focus: Brook Andrew

Previous exhibition, 2017

Experience the artistic clout of Brook Andrew’s portraits of Marcia Langton AM and Anthony Mundine.

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Greg Warburton

Greg Warburton (1952–2022) trained at Hornsby Technical College and Alexander Mackie College in the 1970s.

2 portraits in the collection

Study for portrait of Les Murray

Les Murray AO

Leslie Allan ‘Les’ Murray AO (1938-2019) was acknowledged during his lifetime as one of the great poets writing in English.

4 portraits in the collection

Nam Le

Nam Le

Nam Le

Nam Le, 2010

Rozalind Drummond

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2010

Nam Le

Nam Le

Nam Le (b. 1978), writer, came to Australia as a baby with his Vietnamese refugee parents.

1 portrait in the collection

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Les Murray, 2003

Portrait, bromide fibre print

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Norman McBeath 2011

Les Murray

Les Murray

Les Murray

Les Murray, 1995

Portrait, oil on canvas

Purchased with funds provided by the Basil Bressler Bequest 2001

Still Life (Pieta), 2007 by Sam Jinks

Mortality

More about In the flesh

In Western religious art a Pietà, also called a ‘lamentation’, is an image of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Christ.

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Julie Edgar

Julie Edgar (b. 1951) is a Melbourne artist who studied at RMIT, Monash University and the University of Melbourne.

3 portraits in the collection

Judy Davis

Judy Davis

Judy Davis

Judy Davis, 1981

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 1998

Colin Friels

Colin Friels

Colin Friels

Colin Friels, n.d.

Stuart Campbell

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Estate of Stuart Campbell 2012

Captain Ulm

Captain Ulm

Captain Ulm

Captain Ulm, 1932

Portrait, cast plaster, patinated

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the Sydney Airports Corporation 2001

Alex Miller, novelist

Alexander Miller

Alex Miller (b. 1936), one of Australia’s most decorated and popular authors, migrated from England to Australia on his own as a sixteen-year-old.

3 portraits in the collection

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