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Navin Rawanchaikul
by Christine Clark
Artist essays
Navin Rawanchaikul has built his practice around explorations of the transient nature of identity in a globalised world, and draws much of his material from his own experiences.
FX Harsono
by Christine Clark
Artist essays
FX Harsono was born in 1949, just as the independence of the Indonesian nation was being established.
Alwin Reamillo
by Christine Clark
Artist essays
Alwin Reamillo was born in Manila, Philippines in 1964. He studied painting at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, and began his career as a visual art teacher at the Philippine High School for the Arts.
Larry Clark
Tough & Tender
General content
Larry Clark's black-and-white documentary images of young outsiders reveal raw feelings.
Charles, 2015
by Amiel Courtin-Wilson
General content
Winner, DPA 2016
Leaving Lost, 2013
by Frazer Bull-Clark
General content
Finalist, MDPA 2013
Extraordinary airmen make aviation history
Passion
Charles is my wingman
Rod McNicol
Winner, National Photographic Portrait Prize 2012
General content
Rod McNicol on photographing Jack Charles.
Tough & Tender Media Release
14 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.
Ron Mueck
More about In the flesh artists
Ron Mueck grew up in Melbourne and began a career in puppetry and special-effects based in the US and then London. In the mid-1990s Charles Saatchi commissioned four major works including Dead dad, which were exhibited in Saatchi’s exhibition ‘Sensation’ at the Royal Academy, London and which travelled to Berlin and Brooklyn.
The Winner of the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 is...
2 December 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The winner of the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 has been announced. Congratulations to Amiel Courtin-Wilson for his submission titled Charles.
Swimming every day
NPPP 2015 exhibition essay
General content
Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2015 Prize.
The Brougham
Beards
A philosopher-style of beard – thick and lengthy; a greyer, hence wiser version of the Burke; and suited to older men who saw themselves as sagacious or statesmanlike.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926–2022)
9 September 2022
Media
The National Portrait Gallery is deeply saddened by the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history. Throughout her 70-year reign, Her Majesty represented graciousness, humanity and stability during times of enormous social change.
The Lambert
Beards
Barbering manuals of the turn of the century might describe this style as a ‘Van Dyck’, named after the Dutch painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641) who is known to have adopted this look.
Literary lovers’ life liaison
Lust
Desire drives forbidden love