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Gus and full moon at the farm, 2006 by Amanda James

Gus and full moon at the farm, 2006

by Amanda James

Alex and Doug Dunn, 2013 by James Brickwood

Alex and Doug Dunn, 2013

by James Brickwood

Self-portrait with flowers (presumed native), 2015 by Liam James

Self-portrait with flowers (presumed native), 2015

Geo Face Distributor

Geo Face Distributor

Geo Face Distributor

Geo Face Distributor, 2009

Portrait, enamel paint on cast aluminium

Commissioned with funds donated by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2009

Study for

Study for

Study for

Study for "Portrait of the artist as an evolving landscape", 1991

Portrait, pencil, charcoal and paper collage on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ray Wilson OAM in memory of James Agapitos OAM 2011
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program

Tara Gower and Baden Hitchcock, Chicago, 2019 Lisa Tomasetti

Stillness in movement

Magazine article by Tara James, 2024

Tara James shares the joy of dance and its power to connect in the National Portrait Gallery’s touring exhibition Dancer.

Portrait of Private Edward Lello 1915 by Darge Photographic Company

Final frame

Magazine article by Karl James, 2016

Karl James reflects on soldier portraiture during the Great War.

Riverboat Rod & Ruby, 2022 James Bugg

Riverboat Rod & Ruby

Olympian, 2021 James Brickwood

Olympian

James Brickwood

Kevin at Midnight, 2020 James J. Robinson

Kevin at Midnight

James J. Robinson

Portrait of Mrs Fairfax

Elizabeth Fairfax

Elizabeth Fairfax (née Jesson, 1778–1861), colonial free settler, was born in Birmingham and around 1800 married William Fairfax, whose family had previously held estates in Barford, Warwickshire.

1 portrait in the collection

Portrait of Mrs Sarah Fairfax

Sarah Fairfax

Sarah Reading (1808-1875) came to Sydney from England in 1838 with her husband, John Fairfax (1805-1877), who had left school at the age of twelve and been apprenticed to a printer and bookseller.

1 portrait in the collection

John Fairfax

Hon. John Fairfax MLC

John Fairfax (1805-1877) was a newspaper publisher whose purchase of the Sydney Morning Herald in 1841 began a family association with the paper that would last for over five generations and nearly 150 years.

3 portraits in the collection

Emily Fairfax

Emily Fairfax

Emily Ross (née Fairfax) (1832-1871) was the eldest child of newspaper publisher John Fairfax - who founded the Fairfax news dynasty in Sydney in 1841 - and his wife Sarah.

1 portrait in the collection

Phrenology video: 3 minutes 25 seconds

Ned Kelly and death masks

'Judge a person by their cover'

Alexandra Roginski explains the history behind the pseudo-science of phrenology.

Tom Carroll

Regarded as one of the greatest surfers of all time, Tom Carroll describes his career.

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