Angus Trumble, Director National Portrait Gallery

Angus Trumble, Director National Portrait Gallery in Canberra

Towards a National Portrait Gallery

Angus Trumble was born and educated in Melbourne, Australia.  He studied Fine Arts and History at the University of Melbourne, graduating BA (Hons) in 1986. In summer 1987, he was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.  He studied for a year at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, graduating MA (University of Melbourne) in 1993.  From 1987 to 1991 he served as aide to Dr Davis McCaughey, A.C.,Governor of Victoria.

In 1994 Angus won a Fulbright Scholarship for further study at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.  He graduated MA (IFA/NYU) in January 1998.

In January 1996 Angus was appointed Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.  He curated and wrote the catalogue of a number of exhibitions.

Angus served as a Senior Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale Center for British Art from May 2003 to January 20014, when he took up his current appointment as Director of the National Portrait Gallery iin Canberra.  He is author of A Brief History of the Smile (2003); The Finger: A Handbook (2010), and Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (2013).