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Natasha Gadd
Biography
Natasha Gadd is an independent documentary filmmaker, writer and curator based in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Cecil Beaton
Lady Natasha Johnston, 1968
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Hugo Vickers 2005
Natasha Gadd, Rhys Graham
Johnny Warren OAM MBE, 2008
Portrait, single channel moving image, colour, sound, 2 minutes, 50 seconds
Purchased 2011
Robin Wallace-Crabbe, Dianne Fogwell
Ms Natasha Grishin, 1996
Portrait, etching
Gift of the artist 2000. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Lady Natasha Johnston
Biography
Natasha Johnston (1914-1984) was born Nataliya Konstantinovna Bagration-Moukhranskya, Princess Natasha Bagration, in Crimea.
1 portrait in the collection
Dean Beletich
Kenneth Gillespie, 2005
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph, selenium toned on paper
Purchased 2015
Natasha Bieniek
More about In the flesh artists
Born in Melbourne, Natasha Bieniek began her formal artistic training at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002. Bieniek’s When the music’s over (2006) won the Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, a painting scholarship to study at the Accademia d’Arte in Florence, where she learnt the ancient technique of egg tempera.
Observation point
Magazine article by Natasha Walsh, 2019
My practice has always been driven by my experimental curiosity, from heavy wax and resin bodies generated in flame, to delicate temporal works that explore the conductive and alchemical possibilities of copper.
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General content
The exhibition features work from Jan Nelson, Natasha Bieniek, Patricia Piccinini, Juan Ford, Petrina Hicks, Ron Mueck, Yanni Floros, Sam Jinks, Michael Peck and Robin Eley.
Amanda King
Biography
Amanda King is a Sydney-based visual artist and producer and director of film documentaries.
1 portrait in the collection
In the Flesh
15 October 2014
Archived media releases 2014
Press releases and image downloads for media.
Sir Kenneth Gillespie
Biography
Sir Kenneth Gillespie (1929–2010), dancer, teacher and founder of the Tasmanian Ballet, left his native Launceston at age sixteen to join the Borovansky Ballet in Melbourne.
1 portrait in the collection
Restlessness
More about In the flesh
Natasha Bieniek Most of Bieniek’s subjects are reclining, but none are resting – they have in the artist’s words a ‘melancholia, restlessness and uneasiness'.
More about In the flesh
General content
In the flesh is realised through moments of intimacy, empathy, transitions in life and the transience of life, vulnerability, alienation, restlessness, self-reflection, mortality and acceptance.
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The National Portrait Prizes
29 January 2020
Archived media releases 2020
The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.