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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

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ORA - Homesickness Project 2015 by Chrys Zantis

Food for thought

Magazine article by Michael Wardell, 2016

Michael Wardell on Chrys Zantis’ Ora.

Dr Peter Farrell

Giving and getting

Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2006

The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.

Stella, 2021 Michael Bowers

Stella

Dining room, 2020 Michael Pham

Dining room

Martha Singing, 2021 Michael Wolfe

Martha Singing

Michael Leunig

'Drawing the human spirit'

Philosopher, cartoonist and national treasure, Michael Leunig discusses his art.

Archbishop Michael Kelly

Archbishop Michael Kelly

Michael Kelly (1850-1940), Roman Catholic archbishop, was born and educated in Ireland before proceeding to the Irish College in Rome.

1 portrait in the collection

Michael Klim

Michael Klim

Michael Klim

Michael Klim, 1999

Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper

Purchased 2000 with the assistance of staff of Old Parliament House and the National Portrait Gallery in memory of Matthew Guy Hinder (1967-1999)

Radical Restraint
Justice Michael Kirby

The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG

The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG (b. 1939) was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1996 to 2009.

16 portraits in the collection

George Michael Prendergast

George Michael Prendergast

George Michael Prendergast (1854-1937), printer and premier, was born to an Irish goldminer and his wife and was apprenticed to the printer of the Pleasant Creek News in 1868.

1 portrait in the collection

The Bushranger Tragedy (from The Australasian Sketcher, 23 November 1878)

Sergeant Michael Kennedy

A police party comprising Sergeant Kennedy and Constables Lonigan, Scanlan and McIntyre was dispatched to capture the Kelly gang in 1878.

1 portrait in the collection

Jakob Ryle Schulz, 2006 by Dirk-Michael Schulz

Jakob Ryle Schulz, 2006

by Dirk-Michael Schulz

Dr Ray Marginson AM

Dr Ray Marginson AM

Dr Ray Marginson AM

Dr Ray Marginson AM, 1985

Michael Meszaros

Portrait, cast bronze medallion on wood plaque

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Dr Ray Marginson AM 2001

Dame Zaha Hadid, 2008 Michael Craig-Martin

Dame Zaha Hadid

Michael Craig-Martin

Balla Neba, n.d. Michael Jalaru Torres

Balla Neba

Michael Jalaru Torres

Hetti

Beauty and strength

Portraits by Michael Riley

Previous exhibition, 2014

Influential Indigenous Australian artist Michael Riley (1960 - 2004) created these portrait photographs between 1984 and 1990 - they stand as an intricately connected group portrait of the vibrant urban-based Indigenous arts community in Sydney's inner-west at a formative moment.

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