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Very small business
General content
Under the ‘Old Poor Law’, people begging on the streets could be arrested, so to avoid punishment, they often pretended to commerce, offering the most marginal of goods and services.
Liangis Theatre
Spaces
A lovely lecture theatre with a small foyer space ideal for catering and registration.
Triumphant weekend for Gallery at MAPDAs
25 May 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The National Portrait Gallery has had its most successful Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (MAPDAs) ever, winning four awards across multiple categories. The awards were presented at a ceremony at the Australian Maritime Museum last Friday night.
Allow me to introduce...
General content
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.
Visiting with a school group
Visual Stories
Access support for students.
Conference or seminar
Options
We can tailor our spaces to suit your conference, seminar or forum.
CO-AP
General content
Based in Sydney, CO-AP endeavour to realise unique outcomes for each project, achieved through a strong and reliable collaborative process.
A life shared
Devotion
Wartime romance
Research library
The Gallery
A focused collection for researchers and scholars
Petite beauty marries gentle giant
Passion
Books, beets and heat
Photography and filming
Plan your visit
As long as it for personal use, you can take photos and videos of any of the portraits (except the ones with the No Photos icon).
Empathy
More about In the flesh
Patricia Piccinini places empathy at the heart of her practice. The tenderness of the moment dominates.
Here’s looking at you, kid
Devotion
Is he thinking of me?
Intimacy
More about In the flesh
In experiencing intimacy the human mind wrestles with the impossible task of being as one with another. Sculptor Sam Jinks unites the textures of the human body and human emotion in these works addressing moments of intimacy.
Naomi Hobson
Artists and Collectives
Multidisciplinary artist Naomi Hobson, of the Kaantju language group and Patta skin group, after the Death Adder snake, lives and works on Country in Coen, Cape York Peninsula addressing powerful links between Country and identity.
Prison and death in the 19th century
Two iBooks of authentic records
Learning resources
These books include sixteen inmates including Ned Kelly, Captain Moonlite and Frederick Deeming and twelve sketches of the deceased, including several children. For Year 7 – 9 students.