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David Armstrong, B.A., B. Phil., 1959

Gift of Jennifer Armstrong 2018. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.

National Portrait Gallery becomes statutory authority

On 1 July 2013 the National Portrait Gallery began operating as a statutory authority.

Nobel and his prize

To complement the exhibition Australians and the Nobel Prize, Jennifer Gason gives us a sense of the proceedings that occur during the award ceremony.

Richard Tognetti, n.d.

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

Bryan Brown, 2008

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2013

Mr Sidney Myer AM appointed inaugural President of the National Portrait Gallery’s Foundation

Dr Helen Nugent AO, Chairman, National Portrait Gallery Board announced today the appointment of Mr Sidney Myer AM as the inaugural President of the newly established National Portrait Gallery Foundation.

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National Portrait Gallery Director announced

The National Portrait Gallery welcomes Angus Trumble

Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits opens

Visitors will be left in awe with the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s (NFSA) new star-studded exhibition, Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits. 

Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018

Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018

2021 Annual Appeal

In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.

2023 Annual Appeal

In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.

Annual Appeal

Back track

Penelope Grist finds photographer Matt Nettheim re-visiting a formative and fulfilling career tram stop.