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To arrive at hope
NPPP 2020 exhibition essay
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Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.
Nan Goldin
Tough & Tender
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The photographs by Nan Goldin in Tough and tender are warm images of heartache and hope.
Bern Emmerichs
Contributing artists
Born: 1961, Melbourne
Works: Melbourne
Mämburrkmamburrk, the grouping of the clouds, 2017
by Mundatjŋu Munuŋgurr
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Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video
To Look Away – Tilda, 2015
by Sophie Hyde
General content
Finalist, DPA 2016
Joey Chan
Vox pops
Feeling a bit emotional. Took this portrait and it was the last photo I took of her.
Never let you go
Nearest & Dearest
Country, culture, connection
Michael Simms
Vox pops
I first saw Zaachariaha Fielding perform with electric fields at Fair Day for Mardi Gras back in 2019 and they just blew me away.
Very small business
General content
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.
Tom Goldner
Vox pops
The portrait's of my mother, Catherine, and the photograph was taken in a family home that we had and my mother was relocating to Tasmania.
Person and Place
General content
The connection between land and identity holds great significance in Australia. While for First Nations people, person and place are intertwined both culturally and spiritually, forming an intrinsic union between Country and self, stories of colonisation and migration are also deeply bound to this nation.
Fiona McMonagle
Contributing artists
Born: 1977, Letterkenny, Ireland
Works: Melbourne
New partnership with Stripy Sock
5 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016
We have a new partnership with Canberra-based leading mobile application development consultancy, Stripy Sock.
Pets of all types take over the National Portrait Gallery
3 November 2016
Archived media releases 2016
It is not every day that a national gallery turns its walls over to the animal companions that bring unconditional love and joy to their owners but this summer we have opened the doors to 15 contemporary artists with very different ways of depicting our furry, feathered and scaled pets.
Artist in residence creates portraits using brainwave zctivity
29 June 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Digital media artist, George Khut, is creating a spectacular form of digital portraiture involving public participants.
Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits opens
9 November 2017
Archived media releases 2017
Visitors will be left in awe with the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s (NFSA) new star-studded exhibition, Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.