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Portrait of Minika, 2013

Portrait of Zachary

Costa Georgiadis and Rob McHaffie

Costa and Rob on meeting for the first time and the creation of Costa (it's not ours it's us).

Costa (it's not ours it's us), 2025

Commissioned with funds provided by lead donor, Tim Bednall, and the support of Hayley Baillie and James Baillie, Charles Curran AC, Marilyn Darling AC, Liz Dibbs, Peter James, Katrina Savage and Chris Savage, and Kim Williams AM

Grace Cossington Smith

Recorded 1965

Self portrait, 1948

Purchased 2002

Enigma

Grace Carroll contemplates the curious case of Christian Waller.

Portrait of a Modernist

The National Portrait Gallery acquired the self-portrait by Grace Cossington Smith in 2003.

Celebrity cutpurse

Grace Carroll discusses the portrait of the late-eighteenth century gentleman pickpocket George Barrington.

Mr and Mrs Case, 1864

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010

The Wentworths – Hidden in Plain Sight

Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.

Modern Australian Women

Close contemporaries, Thea Proctor, Margaret Preston and Grace Cossington Smith were frequently sources of inspiration and irritation to each other. 

Ethel Anderson and her daughter, Bethia, c. 1912

Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011

Ethel Anderson and her daughter, Bethia, c. 1912

Gift of Mrs SM Asplin 2011

Costa Georgiadis wins the National Portrait Gallery’s People’s Portrait

In 2024, the National Portrait Gallery took the extraordinary step of inviting the Australian public to choose the subject of its next commission. Twenty-five years after the Gallery’s first commission – the iconic Nick Cave by Howard Arkley – and nearly 90 commissions later, the people of Australia were invited to make their voice heard. Who did the public most want to see represented in their National Portrait Gallery?