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National Portrait Gallery Director Bree Pickering leads the executive team.

The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.


The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce Mr Ralph Kenke and Mr Elmar Trefz are the winners of the Digital Portraiture Award 2017 for their submission Selfie Factory.

These full-length figures in watercolour, gouache and pencil date mostly from the 1820s, and almost all come from the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart.

Born in Manila in 1972, Alfredo Esquillo Jr majored in painting at University of Santo Thomas.

The National Portrait Gallery this week launches an online exhibition of Shirley Purdie’s remarkable self-portrait Ngalim-Ngalimbooroo Ngagenybe to coincide with Reconciliation Week.

Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2009 Prize.

Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018