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Wendy Whiteley in candid conversation with Janet Hawley to celebrate the release of the book Wendy Whiteley and The Secret Garden.

More photographs by Bob King, Stuart Spence, 'pling, Tony Mott, and Wendy McDougall.

Sensuous symmetry

We are delighted to announce the winner of the $10,000 People's Choice Award for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize is David Darcy for his painting of farmer and environmentalist Wendy Bowman.


Paul Kelly & The Portraits presents a multifaceted image of the performer over the course of his career.

The votes have been counted, and the winners of the National Portrait Gallery’s People’s Choice Awards for the Prize exhibitions are...

An exhibition that celebrates the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on the nation’s identity, opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 5 September, 2020.

Curator, Sarah Engledow, introduces the artists and the animals in The Popular Pet Show.


I like talking about Drendel’s pictures as if they expressed dreams of my own.

Unique in the world, perhaps, is a bronze sculpture that fuses the age-old human portrait bronze tradition, and the later genre of the bronze pug figurine: that’d be William Robinson’s Self-portrait with pug.

The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.

Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.