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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Matt Moran
Matt Moran
Matt Moran

Matt Moran, 2004

Murray Fredericks, Lisa Giles
Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of the artists 2005

Alice Giles
Alice Giles
Alice Giles

Alice Giles, 1984

Rosemary Madigan
Portrait, pastel on paper

Gift of Alice Giles AM, in memory of her mother Rosemary Madigan 2023

Bod Polly Borland

In profile

Polly Borland
Magazine article by Oliver Giles, 2023

Polly Borland talks to Oliver Giles about the celebrity portraits that made her name and why she’s now making more abstract art.

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)
The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)
The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879)

The Australian exploring expedition travelling through scrub (from the Illustrated London News 1879), 1876

The Illustrated London News after Jesse Young
Portrait, wood engraving on paper

Purchased 2010

Lisa McCune

Lisa McCune

'I love working in theatre and film and television'
Portrait story

Lisa McCune on starting out on stage and acting in Blue Heelers.

Kim, 2006 by Lisa Garland

Kim, 2006

by Lisa Garland
Image
Lisa McCune

Lisa McCune

In their own words
In their own words

Recorded 2022

The heart that is theirs, 2008 by Lisa Tomasetti

The heart that is theirs, 2008

by Lisa Tomasetti
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Tokyo, 2010 by Lisa Tomasetti

Tokyo, 2010

by Lisa Tomasetti
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Boys & their cars, 2015 by Lisa Ivandich

Boys & their cars, 2015

by Lisa Ivandich
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Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake: Ella Havelka, Beijing, 2015 Lisa Tomasetti

Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake: Ella Havelka, Beijing

Lisa Tomasetti
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Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake: Ella Havelka, Beijing, 2015 Lisa Tomasetti

Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake: Ella Havelka, Beijing

Lisa Tomasetti
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Brooke Lockett, Heidi Martin, Karen Nanasca and Halaina Hills, NYC, 2012 Lisa Tomasetti

Brooke Lockett, Heidi Martin, Karen Nanasca and Halaina Hills, NYC

Lisa Tomasetti
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