National Portrait Gallery

Women in Vogue

Celebrating Sixty Years in Australia

Opening in October 2019, this exhibition showcases sixty years of the Vogue Australia archive together with a special tribute to some remarkable Australian women who have featured in the pages of Vogue, and includes iconic portraits of Kylie Minogue and Elle Macpherson, among others. Early bird tickets on sale now.

The Look

Featuring striking photographic portraits of contemporary figures from the National Portrait Gallery collection, The Look is an aesthetic treat with a lashing of je ne sais quoi.

Primed

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

NPPP 2020

Call for entries

National Photographic Portrait Prize entries are now open, closing on 21 October 2019.

Elle Macpherson, 1995 photographed by Andrew Macpherson

Women in Vogue tour

Friday 11 October 2019
until Sunday 24 November 2019

2:30 – 3:00pm

Exhibition ticket requried.

Little Faces

Spring series

Tuesday 15 October 2019

9:30 – 10:15am; 10:30 – 11:15am

Little children and their parent/carer are invited to join a Learning Facilitator for playful activities. There will be singing, movement and drawing.

Bookings required

Little Faces

Spring series

Wednesday 16 October 2019

9:30 – 10:15am; 10:30 – 11:15am

Little children and their parent/carer are invited to join a Learning Facilitator for playful activities. There will be singing, movement and drawing.

Bookings required

Fashionably Late @ NPG

Friday 18 October 2019

5:00 – 8:00pm

We are keeping our doors open late for a sassy spring soirée. Featuring Mia Sorlie and Dana spinning the decks.

Chris Wallace-Crabbe, 2011 by Kristin Headlam

Poetry on the Move

Mani Rao and Alvin Pang in conversation

Saturday 19 October 2019

10:30 – 11:30am

Poets in residence, featuring readings commissioned for the festival, followed by a broad-ranging discussion touching on poetic journeys, influences, inspirations and ideas.

Luminescence Children’s Choir

Sunday 20 October 2019

3:00 – 3:45pm

A recital of joyous and uplifting music from Canberra-based musicians aged 10 to 17.

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Portrait 63

Winter 2019

Rod Mcnicol's method and motivation, 19th century Indigenous peoples, Barrie Cassidy on Bob Hawke, five generations of the Kang family from Korea and more.

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Portrait of Heidi Middleton and Sarah-Jane Clarke (Sass & Bide), 2008 by Deborah Paauwe

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Women in Vogue

The Look

Primed

Kate (Kate Grenville), 2012 by Jenny Sages

Born on this day

Kate Grenville AO

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Ningali Lawford-Wolf, 1996 (printed 2016) by Stuart Spence

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Your generous support of the Exhibition Fund will provide resources for our talented team to research and develop new exhibition concepts, in collaboration with existing and new international partners.

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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, 15 Jan 1969 by David Combe

Peaceful front

by David Gist, 13 March 2019

‘Is this one of yours?’ David Combe still remembers reading the letter from his father in early 1969. Like every soldier serving in Vietnam, he valued any missive from home.

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#SundayMood with @kylieminogue for our 'Women In Vogue' exhibition ⚡️ Whether you spent last night at home eating #Chocolate or out on the town #SpinningAround #Dancing, feel free to take it #Slow this Sunday and pop into the gallery to see our collaborative exhibition with @VogueAustralia. #StepBackInTime and experience #LoveAtFirstSight as we look at sixty years of Vogue Australia – it's an exhibition that you #CantGetOutOfYourHead. Grab the #Kids, catch the #LocoMotion to the gallery and #ComeIntoMyWorld and see the exhibition #InYourEyes! (#Wow that's a lot of song references! Phew!) ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Image: Kylie Minogue photographed by @nicolebentleyphoto Courtesy VOGUE Australia and Nicole Bentley ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #KylieRocks #PortraitAu #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG #Vogue #VogueAustralia #WomenInVogue #NicoleBentley #KylieMinogue

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