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Acknowledgments

Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023–25

The Gallery would like to acknowledge and thank the people who contributed their time and expertise to participate in the development of this DIAP.

Bree Pickering

Executive

Our team

National Portrait Gallery Director Bree Pickering leads the executive team.

Richard Tognetti #1510

Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018

by Louise Hearman
General content

Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018

Joan Sutherland

All the world's a stage

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Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe

Finalists announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize

14 November 2018
Archived media releases 2018

The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.

Michelle Simmons

Three ways to look at a photograph

NPPP 2019 exhibition essay
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Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2019 Prize.

Announcing.... In their own words

24 November 2020
Archived media releases 2020

Inspiring Australians tell their own stories in a unique new gallery audio tour, developed in collaboration with the National Library of Australia.

Trevor Jamieson, 2016 by Brett Canet-Gibson

The more things change...

NPPP 2017 exhibition essay
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Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.

Barry Humphries

Uncommon Australians

The vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling
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Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.

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History

About us

How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be

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