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Gallery One salon hang

Conversation pieces

Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2025

Curator Emma Kindred shares a glimpse of the creative process behind her selection of works for the National Portrait Gallery’s salon hang.
Miss Frances Samuel

The art of dress

Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2023

Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.
I’ll miss you copying things, 2018 Joan Ross

When birds no longer sing

Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2024

Emma Kindred looks at the career of Joan Ross, whose work subverts colonial imagery and its legacy with the clash of fluorescent yellow.
Untitled, 2016 by Emma Phillips

Untitled, 2016

by Emma Phillips
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Nina and Paul, 2008 by Emma Thomson

Nina and Paul, 2008

by Emma Thomson
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Transition: Nikki & Nick, 2011 by Emma Phillips

Transition: Nikki & Nick, 2011

by Emma Phillips
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Latai Taumoepeau and Justin Shoulder, 2014, printed, augmented 2023 from the series No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory) 2014–18 Deborah Kelly

A stitch in time: Participating in portraiture

About Face article

Author and embroidery enthusiast Emma Batchelor shares her experience of joining a sewing circle with Portrait23: Identity artist Deborah Kelly.
Australian Dance Party and Catapult Dance performing Connecting Stories: Innovations at the National Portrait Gallery, 2022 Lorna Sim

Let’s dance

Magazine article by Emma Batchelor, 2022

Emma Batchelor uncovers the compelling contemporary dance made in response to the works in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
Keenan, 2021 Emma Pegrum

Keenan

Emma Pegrum
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Read the Room, 2023 Emma Armstrong-Porter

Read the Room

Emma Armstrong-Porter
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Sisters or Friends, 2022 Emma Armstrong-Porter

Sisters or Friends

Emma Armstrong-Porter
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Emma Tear Tack
Emma Tear Tack
Emma Tear Tack

Emma Tear Tack, 2017

Pamela See
Portrait, papercut silhouette drawing

Purchased 2019

Ruby (left view), 2022 Shea Kirk

Ruby (left view)

Shea Kirk
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Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania
Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania
Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania

Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania, 1858 (printed 1890s)

Francis Nixon
Portrait, glass plate negative

Purchased 2011

An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens
An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens
An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens

An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens, 1857

Maria Brownrigg
Portrait, watercolour and collage on paper

Purchased 2017

Emma Hamilton, c. 1785 George Romney

Emma Hamilton

George Romney
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