Hand-drawn Portraits of the RBA (online)

Online video: Reserve Bank of Australia Museum 

For more than one century Australia’s banknotes have included portraits, with contributions from painters such as Napier Waller and Guy Warren, and sculptors such as Leslie Bowles. While our most recent series, the Next Generation of Banknotes (issued 2016-2020), incorporates highly sophisticated technology in their design and security features, the portraits are still drawn by hand.

Learn about the practice of Note Printing Australia’s designer and artist, Robert Cook, and explore the history of banknote portraiture in the Reserve Bank of Australia Museum’s new online video.