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The work of art
In Galleries Eight and Nine
Exhibition closes 23 May
It takes a village to raise a creative! Get an insight into the often-unseen work and supporters needed for the arts to thrive. The work of art documents the creative process, evoke states of creativity and inspiration, and shows us clues about the subject’s own work from the way artists portray them.
At ease
In Gallery One
Exhibition closes 3 December
Enjoy, sit back, and relax with some of our favourites from the Gallery’s collection, where they find themselves expertly – and comfortably – captured by their artists.
Portrait23: Identity
Exhibition closes 18 June
Portraiture. Not as you know it. We invite you to stretch, push, resist and transcend portraiture’s conventional constraints.
Little Darlings Youth Portrait Prize 2023
Exhibition opens 25 March
Little Darlings is for primary and secondary students, with four separate categories across Kindergarten to Year 12. Responding to the theme ‘Me and my place’, students painted, drew, photographed, printed or combined all of these to make their portrait.