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The hand of Captain Cook
Google Arts and Culture
Learning resources
Take a close look at a portrait with a hidden message in its hands. For Year 7 – 9 students.
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The Immersive World of Thom Roberts
Explore Thom Roberts' portraiture techniques and ignite your creativity with hands-on activities.
Playgroup programs
General content
Designed for babies and toddlers aged 0–4 and their carers, Playgroup programs offer a gentle introduction to creative play. Children can explore sensory play, tummy time experiences and creative hands-on making activities at their own pace.
Holiday Care Programs
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For care groups - bring your holiday group to the Gallery for a memorable experience.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024
Learning resources
Let’s take a look at the National Photographic Portrait Prize for 2024!
The Immersive World of Thom Roberts
Learning resources
Explore Thom Roberts' portraiture techniques and ignite your creativity with hands-on activities and follow Thom’s steps to make funny face portraits!
An Arctic Time Signature
by Devika Bilimoira
General content
Finalist, MDPA 2015
The 'Multi Exposed Hand'
22 January 2005
General content
Photographer Jozef Vissel talks about his ‘Multi Exposed Hand’ portrait of Sydney Opera House architect Jørn Utzon.
Transience
More about In the flesh
These paintings by Juan Ford and sculptures by Sam Jinks evoke the impermanence of human life.
Kate Beynon
Artists and Collectives
Born in Hong Kong, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Kate Beynon builds from the cultural legacy of her familial ancestry and experience to envision hybrid personas, identities, worlds and mythologies.
Angelica Mesiti
Artists and Collectives
Internationally renowned, Paris-based artist Angelica Mesiti creates video installations that are absorbing and profound experiences for audiences.
Davida Allen
Explore The Popular Pet Show
Going around a gallery with a child, we point to a painting of a dog and brightly ask ‘What’s that?’ If they don’t say ‘A dog’, we tell them that’s what it is. We don’t say it’s a shape inscribed by an artist that’s popularly understood to signify a dog. That’d only serve to foster a smarty-pants.
William Robinson
Explore The Popular Pet Show
Unique in the world, perhaps, is a bronze sculpture that fuses the age-old human portrait bronze tradition, and the later genre of the bronze pug figurine: that’d be William Robinson’s Self-portrait with pug.
World building
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2026
Discover how artists use photography to explore their imagination.
Jaq Grantford
Vox pops
A self-portrait from a different time, feels like a different time, even though it's only a couple of years ago or one and a half years, if that, and it was my commentary on COVID and how I was feeling about it at the time.
National Portrait Gallery Director announced
20 December 2013
Archived media releases 2013
The National Portrait Gallery welcomes Angus Trumble