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Match man, Salisbury by John Dempsey

Very small business

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Under the ‘Old Poor Law’, people begging on the streets could be arrested, so to avoid punishment, they often pretended to commerce, offering the most marginal of goods and services.

I dream of Sam Neill when I go to bed, 1986 Davida Allen

The actor, the artist, her life and her fantasies

Feeling sexy

Research library

Research library

A focused collection for researchers and scholars

Lauren Sutton and Poppy

Lauren Sutton and Poppy

My name's Lauren and this is Poppy, and this is obviously a self portrait of us taken last year in August when we sort of went into lockdown in Canberra.

Arthur Streeton, Nora Streeton (nee Clench) and Pat, the dog

The Streetons’ rich serenade

If music be the food of love

Charlie, 2017 by Lee Grant

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018

Archived media releases 2018

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

Margel and Tarquin, Canberra

The Hinders: doyens of Australian modernism

Progressive partnership

Atong Atem standing behind a wooden table and next to a large leafy green plant

Atong Atem

Artists and Collectives

Atong Atem is an Ethiopian-born, South Sudanese artist and writer living in Narrm/Melbourne. Her work explores migrant narratives and postcolonial practices in the African diaspora.

Marianne Egan and her children Gertrude Evans Cahuac and Henry William Cahuac

Maritime disaster leaves poignant picture

Absence rends the heart asunder

Harry Seidler, Killara, Sydney

Designing the ideal marriage

Deep foundations, shared vision

All that fall artist interviews video: 4 minutes

All that fall artist interviews

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Lawrence English, Ellis Hutch and Lee Grant talk about the works they created for All that fall.

Stephen, Russell and David Page

Bangarra brothers: songman, storyteller, dancer

Creative kin

Naomi Hobson standing next to a wooden table and metal sink in her studio

Naomi Hobson

Artists and Collectives

Multidisciplinary artist Naomi Hobson, of the Kaantju language group and Patta skin group, after the Death Adder snake, lives and works on Country in Coen, Cape York Peninsula addressing powerful links between Country and identity.

Tim Fairfax AC

Tim Fairfax, 2018

by Russell Shakespeare

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Commissioned with funds provided by The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2018

Fred Hilmer

Fred Hilmer, 2018

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Commissioned with funds provided by Dr Helen Nugent AO 2018

The Go-Betweens, London, c.1986 Warwick Orme

Oz Indie

Under the Milky Way tonight

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It was the era of recording your favourite songs directly from the radio; of seeing the latest acts and clips on Countdown; and when the Aussie bands you saw on TV and heard in the charts were the ones you could see live at the pub.

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