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The look and the feel
Living Memory exhibition essay
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Editor Stephen Phillips looks at the finalists' photographs through a judge's lens.
Panel discussion
First broadcast on Saturday 31 July
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A dynamic panel discussion that interrogates some of the themes revealed in Living Memory.
National Portrait Gallery takes out top gong in MAPDA awards
16 May 2019
Archived media releases 2019
The National Portrait Gallery is thrilled to be named the winner of the Museums Australasia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards in the category of exhibition major catalogue level B, for our publication So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history.
2021 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.
Jacki Weaver, 2018
by John Tsiavis
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Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018
8 March 2018
Archived media releases 2018
Images for media use will be available from 8 March 2018.
Announcing... Portrait23: Identity
15 November 2022
Media
In this major new exhibition marking the National Portrait Gallery’s third decade, 23 Australian artists and collectives have been invited to create portraits without constraints or boundaries.
Alwar Balasubramaniam
by Zehra Jumabhoy
Artist essays
Born in 1971 in Tamil Nadu, Southern India, Alwar Balasubramaniam's sculptures, prints and installations challenge our perceptions while creating forms for the invisible and the intangible.
Annual Appeal
Listed by year
Honour board
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board
NPPP 2016 exhibition essay
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Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.
Less than six degrees of separation
Lecture, 28 May 2011
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Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.