Well behaved women seldom make history, as the saying goes, and the National Portrait Gallery, consequently, is full of awesome Australian women who refused to conform to narrow ideas about their place and their worth. This selection of works from the Gallery’s collection samples 100 such stories. Suffragettes, war heroes, wordsmiths and Nobel laureates; rock stars, record-breakers, divas and fashionistas; from the first woman elected to the House of Representatives to the first female Chief Justice of the High Court: Women Make History provides irrefutable proof that national portrait galleries aren’t all about dead white males.
