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Penelope Grist explores the photographic instinct of four-time National Photographic Portrait Prize finalist Julian Kingma.
Penelope Grist and Rebecca Ray talk to the artists in Portrait23: Identity about transcending modes of portraiture.
Penelope Grist explores the interplay between medicine and portraiture in Vic McEwan’s Face to Face: The New Normal.
Penelope Grist talks to photographer Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis about capturing moments, telling stories and keeping Culture strong.
Penelope Grist unpacks photographs by David Parker, who captured the phenomenal emergence of the 1970s and 80s Melbourne music scene.
Gallery directors Karen Quinlan and Tony Ellwood talk to Penelope Grist about the NPG and NGV collaborative exhibition, Who Are You: Australian Portraiture.
Penelope Grist delves into an insightful portraiture exhibition that asks: How do three artists see the same sitter?
Penelope Grist discovers the rich narratives in Peter Wegner’s series of centenarian portraits.
Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.
Penelope Grist’s spirits soar with Lisa Tomasetti’s Dancers in the Streets series.
Penelope Grist finds photographer Matt Nettheim re-visiting a formative and fulfilling career tram stop.
Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.
The 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.
Penelope Grist spends some quality time with the Portrait Gallery’s summer collection exhibition, Eye to Eye.
Penelope Grist finds philanthropy and fashion underpin the story of Susan Wakil AO.
Striking, beautiful portraiture comes out of the most thoroughly documented creative process there is – filmmaking. In a ground-breaking collaboration the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive invite you into this captivating realm between real and fictional worlds.
Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.
Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.
Penelope Grist speaks to Bill Henson and Simone Young to discover the origins of the artist’s stunning photographic triptych.
Striking, beautiful portraiture comes out of the most thoroughly documented creative process there is – filmmaking. In a ground-breaking collaboration the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive invite you into this captivating realm between real and fictional worlds.
Penelope Grist speaks to Robert McFarlane about shooting for the stars.
Angus and the arbiters talk (photo) shop for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Penelope Grist reminisces about the halcyon days of a print icon, before the infusion of the internet’s shades of grey.
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.
Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.
Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
Bare: Degrees of undress celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
An exhibition of humanness in ten themes by Penelope Grist.
In the flesh is an enthralling and immersive experience of contemporary art that confronts the concept of humanness and the experiences of consciousness and emotion. Featuring ten Australian artists including Jan Nelson, Patricia Piccinini, Ron Mueck and Michael Peck, the exhibition explores themes of intimacy, empathy, transience, transition, vulnerability, alienation, restlessness, reflection, mortality and acceptance.
This exhibition goes behind-the-scenes and into the spotlight with professional photographers and the stars of Australian television, music and comedy. Whether negotiating the logistics of a big publicity shoot or quietly capturing moments on set during filming, the photographers' stories are intriguing and compelling.