Magazines are the portrait galleries of the 90s... Glossy is about magazines. The exhibition presents the work of eight photographers, Australian by birth or long-term residency, who are producing portraits for publication in magazines around the world.
Gift of the artist 2021
Purchased 2000
Gift of the artist 2021
Headspace 7: Me and My Place, the seventh in the National Portrait Gallery's series of student exhibitions, will be presented at Commonwealth Place. Me and My Place is the curatorial theme for the 2006 exhibition.
Crowded House is a much-loved Australian-New Zealand rock band formed in Melbourne in 1985 by talented singer/songwriter Neil Finn OBE (b.
3 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Singer/songwriter and guitarist Neil Finn OBE (b. 1958) was born in Te Awamutu, Aotearoa New Zealand, a small town on the north island.
3 portraits in the collection
Jimmy Little AO (1937–2012), singer, actor and advocate, was a Yorta Yorta man raised at the Cummerangunja Mission near the Murray River, New South Wales.
3 portraits in the collection
Portraits from The Movement is the first comprehensive survey of photographs from the Juno Gemes archive, which has supported the Aboriginal struggle for justice in Australia from 1978 to the present day.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2020
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2020
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Wayne Williams 2018
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2010. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
This unique exhibition will give an insight into the private lives, pursuits and work of all the Nobel laureates associated with Australia
In 1976, without having been blooded on the Sydney or Melbourne pub circuit, The Saints recorded a single – ‘(I’m) Stranded’ – earning them the distinction of releasing a punk single before The Sex Pistols did.
