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Halloween – Sam Slater and Andy Lavender, 2009 by Raoul Slater

Halloween – Sam Slater and Andy Lavender, 2009

by Raoul Slater

Muni, 2024 Raoul Slater

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Billy Slater

Billy Slater

Billy Slater (b. 1983), rugby league footballer, has played for Melbourne Storm since the beginning of his career in 2003.

1 portrait in the collection

Billy Slater

Billy Slater

Billy Slater

Billy Slater, 2005

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012

Dame Edna Everage

Bare

Degrees of undress

Previous exhibition, 2015

Bare: Degrees of undress celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.

Mark Richards

Mark Richards

Mark Richards (b. 1957), surfer and surfboard shaper, began his competitive career in 1973, when he came second in the Australian Titles Open division at the age of 16.

1 portrait in the collection

Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard, 2013

Peter Brew-Bevan

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Gift of the artist 2013

Mick Fanning at Snapper Rocks

Mick Fanning AO

Michael 'Mick' Fanning AO (b. 1981) was the world's number one surfer in 2007, 2009 and 2013.

1 portrait in the collection

Dame Edna Everage

All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress

Archived media releases 2015

This exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.

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All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress

Archived media releases 2015

A new exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and the fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.

Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard AC

Julia Gillard AC (b. 1961) was the 27th Prime Minister of Australia from June 2010 to June 2013.

1 portrait in the collection

Mark Richards

Mark Richards

Mark Richards

Mark Richards, 1976

Portrait, type C photograph on paper

Purchased 2007

Ian Thorpe

Collection: Icons

Previous exhibition, 2018

The second instalment of a display featuring bold contemporary portraits drawn from the collection. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.

Self portrait

A guy from Paris

Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2018

Sarah Engledow on a foundational gallery figure who was quick on the draw.

Bob Hawke

Primed

Some Prime Ministers

Previous exhibition, 2019

Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.

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