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Dr John Janson-Moore

Dr John Janson-Moore

The Zammitt Family is part of a massive series of mine that I've been doing since early 2020, documenting COVID in and around Sydney.

Match man, Salisbury by John Dempsey

Very small business

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Under the ‘Old Poor Law’, people begging on the streets could be arrested, so to avoid punishment, they often pretended to commerce, offering the most marginal of goods and services.

Patrick White and Manoly Lascaris

A life shared

Wartime romance

Harry Seidler, Killara, Sydney

Designing the ideal marriage

Deep foundations, shared vision

Self portrait

Buoyant Brack brood breeds inspiration

Nearest & Dearest

Domesticity’s creative maelstrom

Portrait of Lady Eyre Williams (Jessie Gibbon)

Here’s looking at you, kid

Is he thinking of me?

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Key Outcome Area 1

Attitudes and behaviours

Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2023–25

The attitudes and behaviours of the general community towards people with disability have been described as the single greatest barrier to full access and inclusion.

Deborah Kelly sitting on a blue couch in a room with artworks on the walls

Deborah Kelly

Artists and Collectives

Deborah Kelly, based between Gadigal Country, Sydney and Jerrinja Country, Currarong, is known for her multi-disciplinary, exuberant and diverse participatory collages and costumes that come to life in workshops and performances.

Portrait of Margaret Olley in her Paddington studio, 2011 by John McRae

John McRae

NPPP 2012 learning resource

An interview with the photographer.

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New Chief Patron for the National Portrait Gallery

Archived media releases 2016

Mrs Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO has accepted an invitation to become the new Chief Patron of the National Portrait Gallery.

So Fine catalogue

National Portrait Gallery takes out top gong in MAPDA awards

Archived media releases 2019

The National Portrait Gallery is thrilled to be named the winner of the Museums Australasia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards in the category of exhibition major catalogue level B, for our publication So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history.

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Triumphant weekend for Gallery at MAPDAs

Archived media releases 2015

The National Portrait Gallery has had its most successful Multimedia and Publication Design Awards (MAPDAs) ever, winning four awards across multiple categories. The awards were presented at a ceremony at the Australian Maritime Museum last Friday night.

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History

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

Ken Done, 2016 by Mark Mohell

Ken Done

Explore The Popular Pet Show

With a mum who was married to a tradie, you’d think it a fair chance that the baby Jesus would have grown up with a dog in the house.

David Cossini

David Cossini

Godfrey's amazing man. I've known him for four years now. He has a very tough story.

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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people.

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