Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2014
Accession number: 2014.12
Currently on display: Gallery Eight (Temporary Exhibition Gallery)
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On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves: who we read, who we watch, who we listen to, who we cheer for, who we aspire to be, and who we'll never forget. The Companion is available to buy online and in the Portrait Gallery Store.
Deborah Hill talks figures with character, as the National Portrait Gallery touring exhibitions program welcomes its millionth visitor.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
from Saturday 14 December 2019
Eye to Eye is a summer Portrait Gallery Collection remix arranged by degree of eye contact – from turned away with eyes closed all the way through to right-back-at-you – as we explore artists’ and subjects’ choices around the direction of the gaze.