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.

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.

Professor A D Hope, Canberra, 1963 (printed 2000) by David Moore

Poetry on the Move

Kei Miller and Tricia Dearborn in conversation

Sunday 20 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.

Fashionably Late @ NPG

Friday 25 October 2019

5:00 – 8:00pm

We are keeping our doors open late for a sassy spring soirée. Featuring Hope Wilkins, Adriana+Bianca and Kim Yang.

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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

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Primed

Study for portrait of Les Murray, 1995 by David Naseby

Born on this day

Les Murray AO

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

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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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Meet the women of Vogue: South Sudanese-Australian model supernova extraordinaire @AdutAkech started her career modelling for her aunty in Adelaide before her meteoric rise to the runways of Paris and New York. Her grit and determination, Adut says, can be attributed to her mother, “I am who I am because of my mum. She’s the hardest working, most independent woman I’ve known my whole life…” Noted for her strength and her kindness, Adut aspires not only to launching her own fashion label one day and writing a book about her life, she also wants to expand on her role with the UN working toward an ambassadorship. In her interview with @VogueAustralia she avows, “It is my purpose to help other people. To be able to do that, to help people where I came from is an amazing feeling.” As an advocate for refugees around the world, “I want to help people to understand that refugees are normal people, just like everybody else. You don’t choose to be a refugee… You don’t wake up thinking, I’m going to be a refugee. The only difference between a refugee and someone who grew up in the Western world is that we were forced out of our own country, out of our homes, because of fear – not out of choice.” Her joy, gratitude for each day and her incredible drive to become a leader and an influential voice on the world stage is inspiring! See this portrait of Adut in @irisvanherpen Haute Couture captured by @charliedenno and many more in our exhibition #WomenInVogue: Celebrating Sixty Years in Australia. Women In Vogue is on show until 24 Nov 2019. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Image: #AdutAkech photographed by #CharlesDennington for #VogueAustralia, December 2018 Courtesy VOGUE Australia and Charles Dennington ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #PortraitAu #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG #Vogue #IrisvanHerpen #HauteCouture #Supermodel #InspiringWomen

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