Magda Keaney examines the 123 Faces project by Simon Obarzanek.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Emily Casey takes in Shirley Purdie’s remarkable self-portrait, Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of colonial women Lady Ellen Stirling, Eliza Darling, Lady Eliza Arthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Lady Jane Franklin.
This edited version of a speech by Andrew Sayers examines some of the antecedents of the National Portrait Gallery and set out the ideas behind the modern Gallery and its collection.
Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
Joanna Gilmour presents John Kay’s portraits of a more infamous side of Edinburgh.
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.
An extract from the 2004 Nuala O'Flaaherty Memorial Lecture at the Queen Victoria Musuem and Art Gallery in Launceston in which Andrew Sayers reflects on the unique qualities of a portrait gallery.
A new painting by Jiawei Shen captures the vision and resolve of the Gallery's founder, L. Gordon Darling AC CMG.
Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.
Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.
Andrew Sayers outlines the highlights of the National Portrait Gallery's display of portrait sculpture.
