Celebrate the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation’s identity.
Singer/songwriter Archie Roach AM (b. 1956) lived at Framlingham Mission before being removed from his parents at the age of four.
2 portraits in the collection
Andrew Sayers explores the self-portraits created by Australian artist Sidney Nolan.
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.
Peter Carey (b. 1943) is an author whose novels sweep between the fantastic and the realistic, the comic and the tragic, and the present and the past.
3 portraits in the collection
Jon Campbell (b. 1961) came to Australia from Northern Ireland as a three-year-old.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2017
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2001
Gary Heery, photographer, was born in Sydney, where he studied sociology and psychology at the University of New South Wales.
1 portrait in the collection
Born in 1983 of Irish and Aboriginal descent, award winning singer-songwriter Daniel Leo Sultan grew up in Melbourne and moved with his family to Yuendumu in the Tanami Desert and Cairns, following his father who worked as a lawyer for the Aboriginal Legal Service.
1 portrait in the collection
Nolan Heads will focus on the portraiture of one of Australia's most original painters and one of the few to have achieved an international reputation
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2003
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2002
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
This exhibition focuses on exploring national and communal identity through sculptural production in Australia, from the early decades of settlement through to the present day
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2003
Yami Lester OAM (1941–2017) was born at Walyatjata in the north of South Australia.
1 portrait in the collection
