An interview with the photographer.
Robin Sellick captured a rare moment of quietude from the late conservation star Steve Irwin.
Anthony Charles Carden (1961-1995), activist and actor, became interested in performance while a school student at Knox Grammar, Wahroonga.
1 portrait in the collection
During his long and distinguished career Max Dupain took thousands of photographs of people
Rick Amor, noblest yet most unaffected of contemporary Australian portraitists, is also a painter of enigmatic, ominous landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes that haunt the viewer like dreams, dimly-recalled.
The considered matching of artist to subject has produced an amazing collection of unique and original works in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
An interview with the photographer.
First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.
Rennie Ellis: Aussies All is a celebration of the life and work of the late Australian photographer Rennie Ellis.
Australia's major abstract painter Yvonne Audette discusses her portrait of sculptor Robert Kippel.
The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.
Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
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.
A reflection on the National Portrait Gallery's first four years.
