Exhibition Program
The new National Portrait Gallery opens December 2008 | |
The new National Portrait Gallery on King Edward Terrace will open its doors to the public in December 2008. The following schedule will give you an idea of just some of the exciting exhibitions that will be featured following the launch of the building. Check back regularly to keep up to date with the events as they are released. | |
| 2008 ________________________ | |
Animated is the first online exhibition to be held by the National Portrait Gallery. Comprising animated self portraits by fourteen of Australia’s most innovative artists, the exhibition revels in its diversion from conventional portraiture. Representing a wide range of animation styles and techniques, the artists include up-and-coming animators, industry professionals, visual artists and Oscar nominated animator, Anthony Lucas. | |
| Open Air: Portraits and Landscapes 3 December 2008 to 1 March 2009 | |
Open Air: Portraits and landscapes is an exhibition of portraits of Australians in environments of particular significance to them. The exhibition extends the notion of portraiture beyond the simple definition of ‘pictures with faces’ to embrace deeply-rooted visual expressions of identity in which various artists have engaged with different kinds of ancestral history. Inclusive, lyrical and strongly Australian in character, Open Air will be a defining exhibition for the new National Portrait Gallery. | |
| My Favourite Australian 3 December 2008 to 1 March 2009 | |
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| 2009 ________________________ | |
| National Photographic Portrait Prize 20 March to 24 May 2009 | |
| Vanity Fair Portraits (An exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery, London) 12 June to 30 August 2009 | |
Vanity Fair Portraits traces the birth and evolution of photographic portraiture through the archives of Vanity Fair magazine. Visitors can expect to see many familiar and famous faces in this exhibition depicting the history of celebrity portraiture, for which Canberra is the only Australian venue. | |
| National Youth Self Portrait Prize 23 July to 30 August 2009 | |
| Australian Style I: Architecture 11 September to 8 November 2009 | |
The first in a series of exhibitions exploring contemporary Australian identity through creative process Australian Style I: Architecture focuses on a select group of leading and emerging Australian architects. The exhibition foregrounds the philosophy and creative process at the core of each participant’s practice, hence constituting a ‘portrait’ of their style. The main theme of this innovative exhibition is: identity through creative process. | |
