She posed for the camera in Canberra yesterday as if being shot in her heyday by the likes of Irving Penn, Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon.
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A twist of the body and a flick of the hair and Jerry Hall was in her element.
The American model and actress, renowned for her long relationship with Mick Jagger, with whom she had four children, was at the National Gallery with her new partner, businessman Warwick Hemsley, surrounded by works from one of Australia's greatest painters, Fred Williams.
Hall and Hemsley share a love of art and are avid collectors.
Hemsley is also one of the gallery's council members and was due there for a dinner last night.
Hall said, ''I thought it was a great opportunity to come and see the collection, which I've heard so much about.
''I spent the whole day here, looking at everything. It really is something.''
She also wanted to see the exhibition of Williams' works, which has drawn about 55,000 people so far, before doors close on Sunday.
''I've been collecting art since I was very young and I recently sold some at Sotheby's,'' she said.
About $3.8 million worth of art to be precise.
''I kept some but some of it had gotten very valuable and I was just a bit worried [it might be stolen],'' she said.
Hall has posed for the greats, including Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol.
But seeing Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles was the highlight of her gallery tour.
She said it was one of the most important paintings in the world.
Though her stop in Canberra was short, she spent part of her time in the capital shopping in Manuka for a hat for the Queen's garden party in Perth.
Hall last saw the Queen when she performed for her at her birthday at Buckingham Palace a year ago.
The actress admits her life has been nothing short of fascinating.
When asked what it was like constantly having to reflect on her past, she replied, ''I feel I've put the past to bed and really moved on.''
But it was the 1970s she said she'd never want to forget.
She agreed she was probably one of the few who could remember the decade, as she never took drugs.
''It was a wonderful time, it was fascinating, because we had Studio 54, and Andy Warhol was a great friend. I used to go with him and Mick always to Studio 54 and Mick would disappear and Andy and I would stay up on the balcony with the older ladies like Martha Graham, amazing ladies, and we would watch everyone, it was such a spectacle.
''There's never been a place like that so I felt very lucky I was around in those days.''
Hall was recently quoted as ''a rock chick with the heart of a suburban housewife''. While she loved rock 'n' roll, agreed she was a ''rock chick'' for a long time, and believed she was a great housewife, she thinks there's more to her than that.
Hall will fly to Perth tomorrow and expects to be in and out of Australia regularly.