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APS4 Building Services Administrator

Applications close midnight Wednesday 15 May 2024

Employment opportunities

Reporting to the Building and Security Manager the occupant of this role provides support and administration to the Building and Security Section across a range of key activities including invoicing, site access, data entry and other administration as required.

APS5 Exhibitions Coordinator

Applications close midnight Monday 27 May 2024

Employment opportunities

The Exhibitions Coordinator plays a key role in the development, delivery and maintenance of exhibitions and collection displays at the National Portrait Gallery. The role reports to the Senior Exhibitions Coordinator and is a member of a small team that is responsible for the delivery of exhibitions both onsite and travelling. The position requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills and is required to act with a good degree of autonomy.

APS6 Senior Exhibitions Coordinator (non-ongoing)

Applications close midnight Monday 27 May 2024

Employment opportunities

The Senior Exhibitions Coordinator plays a key role in the development and delivery of the National Portrait Gallery’s travelling exhibition program and onsite exhibitions and collection displays. The role reports to the Head of Exhibitions and supervises the Exhibitions Coordinator. The position requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills and is required to act with a good degree of autonomy.

The Darling

Moustaches

Beards were generally been out for British military men in the 1800s: civilians might have worn them as badges of masculinity, but in the army they were perhaps a bit too close to indiscipline for comfort.

The hand of Captain Cook

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Learning resources

Take a close look at a portrait with a hidden message in its hands. For Year 7 – 9 students.

Bequests

Support your Portrait Gallery

Leaving a gift in your Will to the National Portrait Gallery is a thoughtful way to ensure an ongoing legacy for the benefit of future generations.

Luther Cora

Vox pops

Yeah, so it's my daughter. So, I shot this last year, I think on the Gold Coast, we had a little lockdown period, couple of lockdown period.

A photographer’s glamorous friends

Nearest & Dearest

Community, arts, activism

Elegance in Exile

Learning Resource

Learning resource archive

Taking a selection of works from our 2012 exhibition Elegance in Exile: Portrait drawing from colonial Australia, this resource aims to introduce the lives of subjects and artists, provide an insight into colonial times in Australia, encourage close examination of portraits and explore how portraits can be used as primary historical documents. For primary students.

Call for entries

Darling Portrait Prize

DPP entries close 11:55pm AEDT Wednesday 31 January 2024.

Nan Goldin

Tough & Tender

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The photographs by Nan Goldin in Tough and tender are warm images of heartache and hope.

Body Emulsion Detachment, 2016

by Lucas Davidson

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Finalist, DPA 2016

Last week to vote for your favourite portrait

1 June 2015

Archived media releases 2015

The National Portrait Gallery’s National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 will close Monday 8 June 2015, this is the last week to visit the exhibition in Canberra and vote for your favourite portrait in the People’s Choice.

Wayne Quilliam

Vox pops

The important part about it is is where it was captured. That's the Laura Quinkan Dance Festival, where our remote communities gather every two years to celebrate culture, to share knowledge, and to share stories.

John and Lottie’s wedding, early 1970s Unknown artist

Shifting the definition

Nearest & Dearest

Defiant commitment

Literary lovers’ life liaison

Lust

Desire drives forbidden love

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