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Art Handlers' Award 2016
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The winner of our Art Handlers' Award receives $1000 and free return transport for their photograph, courtesy of International Art Services.
Explore The Popular Pet Show
The artists and their furry friends
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Curator, Sarah Engledow, introduces the artists and the animals in The Popular Pet Show.
Skin names
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The first row of paintings depict stories relating to kinship, introducing significant women relatives.
Women in Vogue: Celebrating Sixty years in Australia
20 May 2019
Archived media releases 2019
Celebrating sixty years of Australia’s most exceptional women as they appeared in Vogue Australia, the National Portrait Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition in collaboration with this pre-eminent fashion title.
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.
Jacki Weaver, 2018
by John Tsiavis
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Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018
Fiona McMonagle
Explore The Popular Pet Show
Fiona aims to create a dangerous situation with a flood of water on the paper, forcing each work to the point where it can fail, and then rescuing it.
NPPP 2016 exhibition essay
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Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board
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.