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Carol McGregor

Contributing artists

Born: 1961, Hastings, New Zealand
Works: Brisbane

Contributing artists

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Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.

Abdul Abdullah, Bree Pickering, Robert Wellington, Miranda Tapsell, Luke McGregor

Portraiture at the centre of new ABC television series

The National Portrait Gallery, and Director Bree Pickering, will feature in a brand-new, eight-party competition series – Portrait Artist of the Year. In the series, amateur and professional artists go head-to-head, competing for the ultimate prize: a life-changing commission to hang in the National Portrait Gallery. [Image: Abdul Abdullah, Bree Pickering, Robert Wellington, Miranda Tapsell and Luke McGregor. Courtesy ABC.]

Marilyn Ball, Albatross, 2018 (detail) by Linde Ivimey

So Fine

Archived media releases 2018

The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce its winter exhibition is So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history. It will open to the public from 29 June 2018.

Marilyn Ball, Albatross, 2018 (detail) by Linde Ivimey

So Fine

Archived media releases 2018

Ten women artists explore the possibilities of portraiture as a contemporary art form; and reinterpret and reimagine Australian history in the Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history.

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Biographies of participants in the Writing lives, revealing lives forum.

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