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Nikki Toole has travelled the world to photograph skateboarders.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2013
Purchased 2021
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 1999
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2005
Robert Quayle Kermode (1812-1870), politician, was born on the Isle of Man and educated at Castletown.
1 portrait in the collection
John Clarke (1948-2017), satirist and humourist, moved to Australia in the 1970s from New Zealand, where he had begun performing in university revues and was named Entertainer of the Year in 1976.
3 portraits in the collection
Sir Alexander Campbell Onslow (1842-1908), judge, was educated at Cambridge and practised law in England before being appointed attorney general of British Honduras in 1878.
1 portrait in the collection
Maggie Tabberer AO (1936-2024), designer, writer, editor, publicist and television presenter, is one of Australia's best-known personalities.
1 portrait in the collection
Idle hours is an exhibition of luxurious beauty. Paintings, prints and drawings represent subjects in quiet moods and situations arranged according to the time of day they depict - reading, drawing, snoozing, bathing, sewing, gardening, sitting, looking, making love and spending tranquil time with companions. Works in the exhibition range from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.
Mickey Johnson (1834-1906) was an Indigenous leader in the Illawarra district of New South Wales during the second half of the nineteenth century.
1 portrait in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
Ali Cobby Eckermann (b. 1963), Yankunytjatjara/Kothaka author and poet, was born in Adelaide.
1 portrait in the collection
Brian Cadd (b. 1946), singer/songwriter, had been a member of 1960s Melbourne band The Groop before forming Axiom, the band for which he wrote the hits 'Arkansas Grass' and 'A Little Ray of Sunshine' at the dawn of the 1970s.
1 portrait in the collection
When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.