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Arthur Boyd’s Mysterious Eyes
6 May 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled a focus exhibition of captivating portraits by renowned artist Arthur Boyd, titled Mysterious eyes: Arthur Boyd portraits from 1945.
Listen: Mysterious eyes
Arthur Boyd portraits from 1945
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An open house, recollections of my early life: extracts from the reminiscences of David Boyd.
The Streetons’ rich serenade
Passion
If music be the food of love
The Iconoclasts
Now on display in Gallery Three
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Australian portraiture of the mid-twentieth century was rich with the influence of European modernism, exemplified by the work of artists including Arthur Boyd, Judy Cassab and Clifton Pugh.
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.
Reflections
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All that fall: Sacrifice, life and loss in the First World War exhibition co-curators Dr Anne Sanders and Dr Christopher Chapman reflect on the evolution of the Gallery’s Anzac Centenary exhibition.
Jan Nelson
More about In the flesh artists
Jan Nelson was born in Melbourne. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1983 and has been exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia since that time including at the MCA, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
Gallery unveils Portrait of Mark Ella
12 May 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Last night in Sydney, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled a newly commissioned portrait of Australian sporting legend Mark Ella AM.
Less than six degrees of separation
Lecture, 28 May 2011
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Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.
The Writer: Peter Goldsworthy, 2018
by Deidre But-Husaim
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Commissioned with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AO and Dr Helen Nugent AO 2018.
Past directors
History
Directors of the National Portrait Gallery from 1998 to today.
Andrew Sayers AM FAHA
13 October 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The Chairman, Board, Director and staff mourn the loss of the National Portrait Gallery's inaugural director.
Arianne McNaught
NPPP 2012 learning resource
An interview with the photographer.
Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits
Exhibition essay
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Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
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.
Faces of war
Lecture, 14 May 2011
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Lesley Harding, Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne explores Albert Tucker’s experience of World War II, his interests in the intersection between psychology and creativity, and their influence on his portrait making.