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Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2016
Commissioned 2009
The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
Animated is the National Portrait Gallery's first online exhibition.
The photographs from Matthew Sleeth's tour of duty series look more like advertisements than images of war.
The Tate/SFMOMA exhibition Exposed examined the role of photography in voyeurism and how it challenges ideas of privacy and propriety.
Charles Haddon Chambers the Australian-born playboy playwright settled permanently in London in 1880 but never lost his Australian stance when satirising the English.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.
Stephen Valambras Graham traverses the intriguing socio-political terrain behind two iconic First Nations portraits of the 1850s.
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