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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by James Bain AM and Janette Bain 2010



Commissioned with funds provided by Nigel Satterley AM and Denise Satterley and The Calvert-Jones Foundation 2023






Gift of Nigel Satterley AM and Denise Satterley 2022



Purchased 2022



Commissioned with funds provided by Nigel Satterley AM and Denise Satterley 2020


Little Darlings is for primary and secondary students, with four separate categories across Kindergarten to Year 12. Responding to the theme ‘Me and my place’, students painted, drew, photographed, printed or combined all of these to make their portrait.

Little Darlings is for primary and secondary students, with four separate categories across Kindergarten to Year 12. Responding to the theme ‘identity’, students painted, drew, photographed, printed or combined all of these to make their portrait.

Chair Elizabeth Dibbs, Deputy Chair Hayley Baillie, Tim Bednall, Jillian Broadbent AC, Patrick Corrigan AM, Tim Fairfax AC, Sam Meers AO, John Liangis, Nigel Satterley AM, Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Pakchung.


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.

Tom Fryer surveys the twentieth-century architectural project, and finds representation and the portrait were integral elements.