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Portrait Gallery benefits from generous Boxer bequest
8 April 2015
Archived media releases 2015
Canberran and modernist art collector Alan Boxer has generously bequeathed two works by artists Arthur Boyd and Jenny Sages to the National Portrait Gallery.
A magnificent rivalry
Australia's America's Cup challengers
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Alexander (Jock) Sturrock and Alan Bond
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.
Donors
$10,000 - $49,999
Honour board
The silent spectre of motion (Le spectre silencieux du movement), 2012
by Bridget Walker
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Finalist, iD2012
Arts Project Australia
Artists and Collectives
Arts Project Australia is a creative social enterprise based in Naarm/Melbourne that supports neurodiverse artists, promoting their work and advocating for inclusion within contemporary arts practice.
Mal Meninga, 2018
by Peter Hudson
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Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018
Richard Walley OAM honoured in new Portrait Gallery commission
2 September 2015
Archived media releases 2015
A new commissioned portrait funded by the Gallery’s Foundation will be launched at Murdoch University in Perth tonight, Wednesday 2 September.
Textiles Scientist Voted the People’s Favourite
27 March 2019
Archived media releases 2019
The black and white portrait of an elderly woman with sidelong glance and irreverent, contemplative smile has taken out the people’s choice award in this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Awesome Achievers
A cross-curriculum learning resource
Learning resource archive
What makes someone awesome? And how does a portrait tell a person's story? Bring your students up close and personal with some great Australians. For upper primary school students.
2023 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board
Seduce, Amuse, Entertain
NPPP 2007 exhibition essay
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Michael Desmond, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2007 Prize.
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.
History
About us
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
Rick Amor: 21 Portraits
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Sarah Engledow chronicles Rick Amor's work and accomplishments in this extensive essay in conjunction with the exhibition Rick Amor: 21 Portraits.