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Lost Love, Yiyi is tired, and Waiting on the bridge, 2014

Winner, MDPA 2014

2023 Annual Appeal

In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.

Literary lovers’ life liaison

Desire drives forbidden love

Shadows cast on fairy tale scene

Bunny’s side-honey 

Prizes

Thanks to Canon Australia, the Winner of Living Memory will be awarded over $50,000 in prizes. Thanks to Eizo, the Highly Commended winner will receive a ColorEdge monitor, and the winner of the Art Handlers' Award will receive $2,000 thanks to IAS Fine Art Logistics.

Backstage on the way to the top

Living for the moment

The most material advantages

A one-in-a-thousand woman

Rare Set of Watercolour Paintings on Display for the First Time

A rare and enchanting collection of 52 portraits of British street people will be on display for the first time in the National Portrait Gallery’s winter show, Dempsey’s People: a folio of British street portraits 1824-1844.

Annual Appeal

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

Images for media use will be available from 8 March 2018.

Vale Carla Zampatti AC

The National Portrait Gallery is deeply saddened by the news of the untimely death of Carla Zampatti AC, an Australian icon and a woman who contributed so significantly to defining the identity and style of Australian women.

Who is Lillie Roberts?

Talented wife for a talented husband

‘Never break this heart of stone’

Desired by millions

Ayman Kaake

This photo is a self portrait. So this is me. So you can see the eye resemblance. So, and this photo is inspired by my friends, my workplace.

Immediately, there was a crackle

A meeting of minds

Norman and Rose: lifelong love

The ravishing muse