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Katrina Power, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Dr Paul Scully-Power, 2005
Evert Ploeg
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with funds provided by donors 2006
Love scars
Magazine article by Katrina Osborne, 2016
Katrina Osborne immerses herself in one of photography’s most fearless chronicles.
Announcing... Ralph Heimans: Portraiture. Power. Influence.
30 November 2023
Media
In March 2024, the National Portrait Gallery will launch a major exhibition of the work of Ralph Heimans AM, the Australian artist who’s painted some of the world’s most recognisable people.
Ralph Heimans
Portraiture. Power. Influence.
Previous exhibition, 2024
The exhibition will feature some of the most significant portraits in the artist’s career to date, from early major works such as his painting of HM Queen Mary of Denmark through to his most recent.
Drawing power
Magazine article by Eileen Adams, 2006
The National Portrait Gallery joins the Big Draw, a program dedicated to promoting drawing as a tool for thought, creativity, social and cultural engagement.
Pen power
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2015
Politics and personae in the portraiture of TextaQueen by Jane Raffan.
Prime minister, 2018
Mike Bowers
Image
Serenity
Forough Yavari
Image
Equation of a life – a portrait of Derek Denton
9 September 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The National Portrait Gallery, has welcomed the newest portrait commission of Emeritus Professor Derek Denton AC by Evert Ploeg.
Untitled #1, 2010
by Sean O’Carroll
Image
Portrait 41
October - November 2011
Magazine
This issue features Kate Beynon, Philosopher Cynthia Freeland, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, John Tsiavis & Chris Lilley, UK's BP Portrait Award, Purchasing power in colonial Sydney and more.
Gus and full moon at the farm, 2006
by Amanda James
Image
Bernard Smith, 1985
Albert Tucker
Portrait, oil on canvas laid on cardboard
Purchased 1998
David Williamson
In their own words
In their own words
Recorded 1976
Gusta
Jacob Nash
Image