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Purchased with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2008
Professor Glyn Davis AC is Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Gift of Ann Moyal 2012. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
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.
In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.
The Hon. Chief Justice Susan Kiefel AC (b. 1954) became Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia in 2017 and is the first woman to have held the role.
1 portrait in the collection
This exhibition traces the creative output of nearly 50 years by one of Australia's landmark living photographers.
Born in Toowoomba, Queensland in 1970, Archie Moore is a Kamilaroi and Bigambul man with British and Scottish heritage.
1 portrait in the collection
Neville Bonner (1922–1999) was the first Indigenous Australian elected to federal parliament.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
Ann Moyal AM (1926-2019), historian, was educated in Sydney and Canberra, and gained her first class honours degree in Arts from the University of Sydney in 1947.
1 portrait in the collection
In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.
In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.
Penelope Grist delves into an insightful portraiture exhibition that asks: How do three artists see the same sitter?
I think the most important thing in capturing candid shots is to never take the photo when people are expecting you to press the shutter. The more poignant moments are not the stock standard images of people looking at the camera smiling but after or before when they are really interacting with each other.