National Portrait Gallery

20 collections

Paul Kelly & The Portraits

Portraits of singer songwriter Paul Kelly by artists and rock photographers. This focus exhibition is developed in partnership with Shark Island Productions with the support of The Caledonia Foundation.

Wednesday 19 June 2013 to Sunday 01 September 2013
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

20 collections

Paris to Monaro: Pleasures from the studio of Hilda Rix Nicholas

After successfully exploring the art scenes of London, France and Morocco, Hilda Rix Nicholas settled at Knockalong, a property near Delegate, on the Monaro plain in the 1920s. In Paris to Monaro the artist's portraits in the landscape are shown amongst a treasure trove of objects transported from the magical studio she created there.

Hilda Rix Nicholas

Friday 31 May 2013 to Sunday 11 August 2013
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

First Ladies: Significant Australian Women 1913-2013

First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.

Friday 01 February 2013 to Sunday 16 June 2013
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2013

The National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition is selected from a national field of entries that reflect the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects. The National Portrait Gallery offers a prize of $25,000 for the most outstanding photographic portrait.

Phil Roubin Melanie Faith Dove Stephen Dupont James Brickwood Richard Goodwin Simon Harsent David Kelly Gary Grealy Louise Whelan Janet Tavener Janelle Low Louise Allerton Daniel Arnaldi Sarah Bannister Katherine Bennett Milena Bennett Adele Miranda Bishop Nick Bowers Graham Caughley Heather Corrigan Simone Darcy Nicholas Duell Jacqueline Noelle Felstead Heather Shirley Fernon Ivan Gaal Gary Heery Quentin Cameron Jones Ben Lawrence Ray Lawrence Morganna Magee Arianne Ruth Mc Naught Timothy Morris Zelko Nedic Myles Nelson Rewa Nolan Richard Payne Tom Psomotragos Sally Robinson Paul Roderick Mallam Jeremy Shaw Julie Robyn Sundberg Mirek Rzadkowski Ahmad Sabra Tracey Schramm Krystal Seigerman Margot Irene Sharman Vitek Skonieczny Hamish Ta Mé John Tsiavis John Van Den Broeke Linda Wachtel Charlie White Sharon Zwi

Saturday 09 March 2013 to Sunday 19 May 2013
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Glorious: A Diamond Jubilee portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

The exhibition is a collection-based display representing The Queen in the early and late years of her glittering sixty-year reign.

Ralph Heimans

Friday 28 September 2012 to Monday 01 April 2013
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Go Figure! Contemporary Chinese Portraiture

Drawn from the Sigg Collection, Switzerland and the M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong, together one of the world’s most important collections of experimental Chinese art, the exhibition is a vibrant expression of Chinese culture and contemporary portraiture.

Thursday 13 September 2012 to Sunday 17 February 2013
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

20 collections

Ingvar Kenne: Citizen

Swedish-born Australian photographer, Ingvar Kenne, captures both individuality and shared human experience in his ongoing portrait project Citizen. By applying the same photographic parameters and treating each of his sitters as equal, Kenne creates an intimate collective of what he refers to as ‘fellow man’.

Ingvar Kenne

Friday 02 November 2012 to Sunday 27 January 2013
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

5 collections

iD Digital Portraiture Award

The inaugural iD Digital Portraiture Award is an annual event intended to extend traditional notions of portraiture, and reflects the National Portrait Gallery's commitment to fostering emerging artists between the ages of 18 and 30 years old with an interest in contemporary technology.

Thursday 02 August 2012 to Sunday 28 October 2012
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

9 collections

Portrait Drawings from Colonial Australia

Elegance in exile is an exhibition surveying the work of Richard Read senior, Thomas Bock, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright and Charles Rodius: four artists who, though exiled to Australia as convicts, created many of the most significant and elegant portraits of the colonial period.

Friday 01 June 2012 to Sunday 26 August 2012
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

White Whiteley: The portrait of Patrick White by Brett Whiteley

To celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Patrick White's birth, the Gallery will display eleven works by Brett Whiteley, centred around his scintillating 'Patrick White at Centennial Park 1979-1980'. This focus display brings the glowing finished representation together for the first time with sketches Whiteley made as the portrait took shape in his imagination.

Brett Whiteley

Thursday 10 May 2012 to Sunday 22 July 2012
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

20 collections

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2012

The National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition is selected from a national field of entries that reflect the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects. With the generous support of Visa, the National Portrait Gallery offers a prize of $25,000 for the most outstanding photographic portrait.

Andrew Campbell Georgia Metaxas Alex Frayne James Brickwood Ingvar Kenne George Mifsud Jack Charles Roderick Mc Nicol Emma Phillips Alina Gozina Mine Konakci Billiejeanisnotmylover Martin Philbey Jennifer Stocks Simon Harsent Miles Standish David Kelly Brenton Mc Geachie Gary Grealy Nikki Toole Titian Scheffer Mark Tedeschi Daniel Boud John Mc Rae David Glazebrook Graham Mc Carter Eryca Green Louise Whelan Dale Neill Sandra Ramacher Domas Rukas Juli Balla Anthony Anderton Heather Faulkner Peter West Russell Shakespear Benjamin Liew Adrian Brown David Tacon Christopher Pearce Anita Beaney Regan Kennedy Aletheia Casey Matthew Abbott Tobias Titz Adrianne Mc Naught

Tuesday 20 March 2012 to Sunday 20 May 2012
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

Jo's mo show (with beards)

Any survey of the National Portrait Gallery's collection reveals numerous variations in facial hair fashions.

Friday 28 October 2011 to Sunday 01 April 2012
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

David M Thomas Dream Job

Since 1993 Brisbane-based artist David M Thomas has investigated self identity through art works that encompass painting, text, audio, video and performance.

David Thomas

Friday 02 December 2011 to Sunday 18 March 2012
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

20 collections

Impressions Painting light and life

Impressions: Painting light and life presents portraits by, and of, artists at the heart of Australian impressionism including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin.

Rupert Bunny Frederick Mccubbin Arthur Streeton Walter Withers Louis Abrahams Aby Altson Julian Ashton George Coates Charles Conder David Davies Gf Folingsby E Phillips Fox A Henry Fullwood Ina Gregory Grace Joel George Lambert Lionel Lindsay Arthur Loureiro Bertram Mackennal Josephine Muntz Adams Girolamo Nerli Helen Anne Peters Hugh Ramsay Tom Roberts John Peter Russell Herbert H Smith John Sommers Snr Clara Southern Jane Sutherland George Walton

Friday 25 November 2011 to Sunday 04 March 2012
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

19 collections

Beyond the Self - Contemporary Portraiture from Asia

This exhibition examines the representation of the self in current South and Southeast Asian art practice through the work of artists from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines and Thailand.

Alwar Balasubramaniam Nadiah Bamadhaj Atul Bhalla Nikhil Chopra S Teddy D Alfredo Esquillo Jr Fx Harsono Jose Legaspi Herra Pahlasari Pushpamala N Eko Nugroho Nusra Latif Qureshi Navin Rawanchaikul Alwin Reamillo Tejal Shah Vivan Sundaram Melati Suryodarmo Agus Suwage Hema Upadhyay

Saturday 13 August 2011 to Sunday 06 November 2011
Art exhibition in Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

doppelganger

doppelgänger is the second in a series of virtual exhibitions held by the National Portrait Gallery that explore contemporary notions of portraiture in the online realm. Based in Second Life the exhibition features the work of five artists interested in exploring the concepts of constructed self, beauty and likeness, truth and illusion in self representation.

Friday 23 October 2009 to Monday 23 March 2009
Art exhibition in Australia.