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Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.
Purchased 2023
Directors of the National Portrait Gallery from 1998 to today.
Purchased 2022
Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.
Celebrate the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation’s identity.
Rock’s raw potency made it the ideal medium for fomenting protest. The 1970s, 80s and onwards saw calls for social and environmental justice ring out through song.
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
An exhibition that celebrates the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on the nation’s identity, opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 5 September, 2020.
Leaders, painters, friends
Michael Desmond, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2007 Prize.
Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.
Andrew Mayo talks to three of Australia’s most prominent and prolific music photographers — Martin Philbey, Kane Hibberd and Daniel Boud — about the challenges and inspiration behind their craft.
Tegan McAuley looks at the evolution of video portraiture.
Martin Philbey’s portrait of Dan Sultan.