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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2003
The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
This exhibition offers a comprehensive display of Clifton Pugh's portraits revealing his development and growth from tonal paintings to a unique style that was in demand from politicians, artists, academics and Australian personalities.
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
Robin Sellick captured a rare moment of quietude from the late conservation star Steve Irwin.
The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
This article examines the portraits gifted to the National Portrait Gallery by Fairfax Holdings in 2003.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
From 2015 to 2017 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on Reg Richardson AM by Mitch Cairns, a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2014, and a great example of minimalist portraiture.
Desperately seeking Woolner medallions