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Rebecca Blake

Curator tour with Rebecca Blake

National Photographic Portrait Prize
Event, Wednesday 20 August

Explore this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize with exhibition curator, Rebecca Blake.
Oaklan, 2024 Kristian Taylor-Wood

Power of Portrait Photography

Visual Arts (upper primary)
Event, Selected days from Thursday 4 September

Join us for an engaging and interactive program tailored for upper primary students, where they will build critical thinking skills to interpret photographic portraits.
Deveni Temu

Virtual Highlight Tour

Portrait Tok Stori
Event, Tuesday 16 September

Join retired Pacific Collections Librarian, Deveni Temu, for an insightful exploration of Elizabeth Durack’s remarkable artworks created during her 1968 visit to PNG.
Marcia Langton

Portrait Quest!

Civics and Citizenship (upper primary)
Event, Daily

Join us for an interactive, curriculum-aligned program that explores the lives and contributions of significant Australians.
An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens

Portrait Journey around Australia

History (upper primary)
Event, Daily

From First Nations perspectives to the contribution of migrants, from the opening of Parliament to environmental protest, Australian history is full of fascinating stories – and we have the portraits to explore them.
Melissa Malu

Virtual Highlight Tour

Portrait Talanoa with the Australian Museum
Event, Tuesday 30 September

Join Melissa Malu, Head of Pasifika Collections & Engagement at the Australian Museum, as she discusses community identity and what portraiture means to her from a Tongan and Fijian context.
Dr John Yu

Portrait Exploration: Art and Identity

Visual Arts (upper primary)
Event, Daily

Join us for an engaging and interactive program tailored for upper primary students, where they’ll develop the confidence and critical thinking skills to interpret portraits.
Visitors in front of where will the story take us, 2002-2024 (printed 2024) (detail) Katrin Koenning

Guided Tour

The art of portraiture
Event, Daily until Sunday 31 August

Learn about the architecture of the building before journeying through the Gallery to hear about the lives and legacies of the portrait subjects and the artistic techniques used to tell their stories.
Bacon Sizzle, 2023 Marlowe E. Haskas

My Awesome Australian

Visual Arts & Civics and Citizenship (lower primary)
Event, Selected days until Thursday 28 August

To celebrate 50 years of the Order of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery invites school students nationwide to create portraits of outstanding community members.
A Painting for my 13 Year Old Self, 2023 Ting Jiang

My Awesome Australian

Visual Arts & Civics and Citizenship (upper primary)
Event, Selected days until Thursday 28 August

To celebrate 50 years of the Order of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery invites school students nationwide to create portraits of outstanding community members.
Little Faces

Little Faces

Event, Starts Wednesday 17 September

Do we have a treat for the smaller humans in your life! Little Faces is for babies and toddlers (with their grown up) to play, sing and have fun discovering a portrait together.
Visitors in front of The Quickening, 2022 (detail) Ying Ang

Introduction tour

Welcome highlights
Event, 2pm daily + 1pm on weekends in June and July

Join a short introductory tour of the National Portrait Gallery and discover a few key portraits.
Two people drawing

Drawn In

Face to Face
Event, Selected Sundays in Winter

Celebrating connection and collaboration, stay warm inside and out this winter with a new season of Drawn in at the National Portrait Gallery.
Stan Grant and Tracey Holmes

Virtual Highlight Tour

Love Stories
Event, Tuesday 26 August

Join National Portrait Gallery Learning Faciliator Cate and explore how artists capture the love stories of their sitters.
The Story Teller (Noni Hazlehurst)

Virtual Highlight Tour

Guiding Beginnings
Event, Tuesday 2 September

Join National Portrait Gallery Learning Facilitator Sally as we look at portraits in the collection that honour the incredible work of early childhood educators.
Rebecca Blake

Virtual Highlight Tour

Curator Intro: NPPP2025
Event, Tuesday 9 September

Join exhibition curator Rebecca Blake for an introduction to National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025, as she explores the key themes, ideas and preparation process behind the exhibition.
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