I thought it'd be lovely today to chat with you about two of the works that've really popped out for me from the WHO ARE YOU show, which is all about investigating portraiture through many different mediums. And the mediums I've chosen are sculptures.
The Gallery would like to acknowledge and thank the people who contributed their time and expertise to participate in the development of this DIAP.
In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.
Delve into the lives, loves and labour of the world’s most prominent portrait galleries in this international conversation series.
Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be
Most well-regarded pictures of chickens show them dead. A reliable way to tell if a chicken in a painting is dead is to check if it’s hanging upside down, because unlike, say, cockatoos, chickens don’t practise inversion for enjoyment in life.
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.