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The Immersive World of Thom Roberts
Learning resources
Explore Thom Roberts' portraiture techniques and ignite your creativity with hands-on activities and follow Thom’s steps to make funny face portraits!
Who is Lillie Roberts?
Devotion
Talented wife for a talented husband
The Immersive World of Thom Roberts
12 April – 20 July 2025
Media
The first solo exhibition for this multidisciplinary, contemporary Australian artist, The Immersive World of Thom Roberts opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 12 April.
Charles, 2015
by Amiel Courtin-Wilson
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Winner, DPA 2016
Ben Roberts-Smith, 2018
by Julian Kingma
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Commissioned in 2018 with funds raised through the 2020 project
Extraordinary airmen make aviation history
Passion
Charles is my wingman
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The Immersive World of Thom Roberts
Explore Thom Roberts' portraiture techniques and ignite your creativity with hands-on activities.
Rod McNicol
Winner, National Photographic Portrait Prize 2012
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Rod McNicol on photographing Jack Charles.
Yang Na
Featured Artists
Born 1983, Chongqing, Sichuan Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
Liu Wei
Featured Artists
Born 1965 in Beijing. Lives and works in Beijing.
2013-14 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
This 1910 portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts by Tom Roberts was brought into the Gallery's collection with the assistance of the Acquisition Fund in 2013.
Rong Rong
Featured Artists
Born Li Zhirong 1968, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province. Lives and works in Beijing.
Ron Mueck
More about In the flesh artists
Ron Mueck grew up in Melbourne and began a career in puppetry and special-effects based in the US and then London. In the mid-1990s Charles Saatchi commissioned four major works including Dead dad, which were exhibited in Saatchi’s exhibition ‘Sensation’ at the Royal Academy, London and which travelled to Berlin and Brooklyn.
Fang Lijun
Featured Artists
Born 1963, Handan, Hebei Province China. Lives and works in Beijing.
About the exhibition
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Portraits from the Sigg collection, from 1979 to the present including painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation.
The Winner of the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 is...
2 December 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The winner of the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 has been announced. Congratulations to Amiel Courtin-Wilson for his submission titled Charles.