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APS5 Projects Coordinator – non ongoing
Applications close midnight Sunday 13 April 2025
Employment opportunities
The Projects Coordinator will play a key role in the development and delivery of a new project collaborating with a partner venue in Brisbane, Queensland to develop an exhibition which is both nationally and locally significant. It will be a dynamic role underpinned by project coordination, with an emphasis on liaison and collaboration with Curators, Artists and Community. Strong skills and expertise in this area will be required. The role is based in Canberra but will require some travel, and coordination of artists and community for the delivery of four workshops, in Brisbane, throughout 2025. The workshops are the basis for the co-design of the project and exhibition.
EL1 Executive Officer
Applications close midnight Sunday 27 April 2025
Employment opportunities
Reporting to the Director, the Executive Officer provides high level administration and strategic support to the Director to achieve business objectives. This includes providing expert advice and contributing to decision making, escalating sensitive issues and proposing solutions, and effectively coordinating, tracking and reporting on key activities and priorities. The Executive Officer will work closely with the Executive and staff to ensure that administrative and operational support and advice is provided in a timely and efficient manner, and in a way that is consistent across the Gallery. This will involve specifically working in a coordinated way with the Director’s Executive Assistant and Corporate Governance team.
The Darling
Moustaches
Beards were generally been out for British military men in the 1800s: civilians might have worn them as badges of masculinity, but in the army they were perhaps a bit too close to indiscipline for comfort.
Submit your portraits
My Awesome Australian
Submissions close 5:00pm Sunday 14 September 2025
The hand of Captain Cook
Google Arts and Culture
Learning resources
Take a close look at a portrait with a hidden message in its hands. For Year 7 – 9 students.
Bequests
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Luther Cora
Vox pops
Yeah, so it's my daughter. So, I shot this last year, I think on the Gold Coast, we had a little lockdown period, couple of lockdown period.
A photographer’s glamorous friends
Nearest & Dearest
Community, arts, activism
Elegance in Exile
Learning Resource
Learning resource archive
Taking a selection of works from our 2012 exhibition Elegance in Exile: Portrait drawing from colonial Australia, this resource aims to introduce the lives of subjects and artists, provide an insight into colonial times in Australia, encourage close examination of portraits and explore how portraits can be used as primary historical documents. For primary students.
Nan Goldin
Tough & Tender
General content
The photographs by Nan Goldin in Tough and tender are warm images of heartache and hope.
Body Emulsion Detachment, 2016
by Lucas Davidson
General content
Finalist, DPA 2016
Last week to vote for your favourite portrait
1 June 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The National Portrait Gallery’s National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 will close Monday 8 June 2015, this is the last week to visit the exhibition in Canberra and vote for your favourite portrait in the People’s Choice.
Wayne Quilliam
Vox pops
The important part about it is is where it was captured. That's the Laura Quinkan Dance Festival, where our remote communities gather every two years to celebrate culture, to share knowledge, and to share stories.
Shifting the definition
Nearest & Dearest
Defiant commitment
Literary lovers’ life liaison
Lust
Desire drives forbidden love
Backstage on the way to the top
Passion
Living for the moment