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Max Cullen

Max Cullen (b. 1940), actor and artist, trained in art in Sydney in the 1950s, worked as a commercial artist and illustrator for some years, and has continued to exhibit solo and in group shows including the Archibald, Blake and Sulman Prizes.

1 portrait in the collection

Riverboat Rod & Ruby, 2022 James Bugg

Riverboat Rod & Ruby

Wild Man, 2005 by Ron Mueck

Vulnerability

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London-based artist Ron Mueck creates an intense awareness of the different ways in which we experience vulnerability and a strong sense of tenderness is never far away.

Portrait of Brian Dunlop

Brian Dunlop

Brian Dunlop studied at East Sydney Technical College and won the Le Gay Brereton Prize for Drawing while still a student.

7 portraits in the collection

Coveruncover, 2014

by Phoebe Carmody

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Finalist, MDPA 2014

Waylon Batt, 2016 by Nic Vevers, video: 2 minutes

Waylon Batt, 2016

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Finalist, DPA 2016

Tracey Moffatt dreaming

Tracey Moffatt

Tracey Moffatt AO (b. 1960) is an artist whose work reflects on issues including race, childhood trauma, gender and popular culture.

8 portraits in the collection

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, 2013 by Tamara Dean

Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, 2013

Murray Bail

Murray Bail

Murray Bail (b. 1941), writer, was born in Adelaide and spent several years in India and England in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

3 portraits in the collection

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A blackguard rehearsing - Max Cullen, 2001

Portrait, oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Nigel Naseby 2007
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Sydney Ure Smith

Sydney Ure Smith

Sydney Ure Smith, publisher, was responsible for the establishment of Art in Australia in 1916-1942 and the journals The Home and Australian National Journal.

1 portrait in the collection

Peace and War (Mr A. G. Hales)

Alfred Arthur Greenwood Hales

Alfred Arthur Greenwood Hales (1860-1936), adventurer, writer and newspaper correspondent, left school and started writing short stories in his teens.

1 portrait in the collection

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Eleanor Constance Gude

Eleanor Constance 'Nornie' Gude (1915–2002) was born in Ballarat and was fifteen when she was accepted to study painting at the Ballarat Technical Art School.

1 portrait in the collection

Double Portrait: Vida and Marie Breckenridge (study)

Double Portrait: Vida and Marie Breckenridge (study)

Double Portrait: Vida and Marie Breckenridge (study)

Double Portrait: Vida and Marie Breckenridge (study), 1999

Nancy Borlase AM

Portrait, oil on canvas

Gift of Marie Breckenridge 2004

Erica, 2018 Ben Bickley

Erica, 2018

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Upcoming

A short listing of future exhibitions planned for the National Portrait Gallery.

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