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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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Magda Szubanski

Magda Szubanski AO

Magda Szubanski AO (b. 1961), actor and writer, was born in Liverpool, England and moved to Australia when she was four.

1 portrait in the collection

Kyra Mancktelow: You’re just too deadly, 2022 Dylan Mooney

Kyra Mancktelow: You’re just too deadly

Tony Albert: Aww bless, 2023 Dylan Mooney

Tony Albert: Aww bless

Dylan Mooney: You say tru gawd, 2023 Dylan Mooney

Dylan Mooney: You say tru gawd

Thea Anamara Perkins: Hey you mob, 2023 Dylan Mooney

Thea Anamara Perkins: Hey you mob

Paradise won, 2024 Ryan Presley

Reconciliation Week Highlights Tours

Event, Daily from Monday 27 May

Join us in the Gallery this National Reconciliation Week for a 30-minute tour of the collection, as we explore and reflect on the stories of First Nations peoples.

Brenda L Croft and Dr Matilda House In Conversation video: 43 minutes

In Conversation

Brenda L Croft and Dr Matilda House, 24th June 2020

Recorded virtual programs

Brenda L Croft (Gurindji/Malngin/Mudburra peoples) talks with Ngambri/Ngunnawal/Wiradjuri elder, Dr Matilda House, about her photographic portrait.

Portrait 32

June - August 2009

This issue features Vanity Fair, Nancy Bird Walton, William Barak, Sidney Kidman, Benjamin Duterrau's portraits of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania, and more.

Yhonnie and Indiana, 2012 by Janelle Low

NPPP 2013 learning resource

Learning resource archive

Exploring select works from the NPPP 2012. For secondary students.

Justin Shoulder, 2014, printed 2022, augmented 2023 Deborah Kelly

Justin Shoulder

Portrait 63

Rod McNicol's method and motivation, 19th century Indigenous peoples, Barrie Cassidy on Bob Hawke, five generations of the Kang family from Korea and more.

Mandawuy Yunupingu, NT

Mandawuy Yunupingu, NT

Mandawuy Yunupingu, NT

Mandawuy Yunupingu, NT, 2004

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2005

Mandawuy Yunupingu

Mandawuy Yunupingu

Mandawuy Yunupingu

Mandawuy Yunupingu, 1991 (printed 2011)

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe, 2001 (printed 2004)

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005

Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce AO

Phillip Noyce AO (b. 1950), director, was part of the first student intake at the Australian Film and Television School in 1973.

2 portraits in the collection

Magda Szubanski

Magda Szubanski

Magda Szubanski

Magda Szubanski, 1997 (printed 2021)

Jacqueline Mitelman

Portrait, inkjet print on paper

Purchased with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AC 2021

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