Revealing the backstories behind the NPG collection, Before hand features interviews with artists and sitters as well as working drawings, scrapbooks, sketches and footage taken in artists’ studios and out on location.
The following on-line and physical exhibitions are planned to open at the National Portrait Gallery in coming months. For those who can’t travel at present, selected works from all exhibitions will be included online
How is it done? How do artists capture someone’s presence and personality? What is the nature of this relationship? What does it feel like to be a sitter for a portrait in the national collection?
Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.
Champion track cyclist, Anna Meares, discusses her portrait with artist Narelle Autio.
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.
Commissioned with funds provided by King & Wood Mallesons 2018
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Commissioned with funds provided by King & Wood Mallesons 2018
Angus and the arbiters talk (photo) shop for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
The National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
Comments from our judges and information about entering the 2017 Prize.
An interview with the photographer.
Narelle Autio (b. 1969) went to art school in South Australia intending to become a painter, but ‘somehow ended up’ with a camera.
1 portrait in the collection
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