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The look and the feel
Living Memory exhibition essay
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Editor Stephen Phillips looks at the finalists' photographs through a judge's lens.
Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018
by Louise Hearman
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Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018
2013-14 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
This 1910 portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts by Tom Roberts was brought into the Gallery's collection with the assistance of the Acquisition Fund in 2013.
2012-13 Acquisition Fund
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The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.
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Harold David Takes out the People’s Choice Award for this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize
8 June 2018
Archived media releases 2018
The votes are in and the National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce The Honourable Bob Hawke savouring a strawberry milkshake by Harold David is the people’s choice for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018.
Living Memory – National Photographic Portrait Prize extended to January 2022
6 September 2021
Archived media releases 2021
In light of recent and ongoing gallery closures brought on by the COVID pandemic, the NPG’s 2021 National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition season will be extended until 16 January next year.
2020 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018
8 March 2018
Archived media releases 2018
Images for media use will be available from 8 March 2018.
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Exhibition opening speech
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Leo Schofield introduces the exhibition, Masters of fare: chefs, winemakers, providores.
Lucy Culliton
Explore The Popular Pet Show
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.
Noel McKenna
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It’s a matter beyond dispute that in the entire history of Australian art, it’s Noel McKenna who’s painted the liveliest rendition of the head of a Chihuahua.
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Nicholas Harding
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Over the years the young Nicholas Harding got his hands on various mice and guinea pigs, but they served mainly to illustrate the concept of mortality.