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My Two Lovely Faces Looking at Each Other and Smiling for Love, 2022
Rhonda Sharpe, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists
Portrait, soft sculpture made with recycled woollen blankets, bush dye, wool, cotton, feathers
Purchased 2023
Girl with Big Stick, Cooloman and Bird, 2022
Rhonda Sharpe, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists
Portrait, soft sculpture made with recycled woollen blankets, bush dye, wool, cotton, feathers
Purchased 2023
Rhonda Sharpe
Biography
Luritja woman Rhonda Sharpe was born in 1977 in Alice Springs and is an artist working out of Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, in the Larapinta Valley Town Camp.
2 portraits in the collection
Wendy Sharpe
Biography
Wendy Sharpe undertook art studies in Sydney between 1978 and 1984 and held her first solo exhibition at the Nicholson Street Gallery in 1985.
3 portraits in the collection
Megan Wilding as Blackie Blackie Brown: Traditional Owner of Death, 2019
Wendy Sharpe
Image
Observation point
Magazine article by Wendy Sharpe, 2013
Australian artist and Archibald Prize finalist, Wendy Sharpe reflects on the art of portraiture.
A Dance to the Music of Time (Self portrait)
Wendy Sharpe
Image
Wendy Sharpe, 2000
Greg Weight
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2004. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Wendy Sharpe in her studio, 2007
Mark Tedeschi
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
The Witching Hour - Elena Kats-Chernin, 2017
Wendy Sharpe
Portrait, oil on canvas
Purchased with the assistance of funds provided by the Circle of Friends 2018
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists
Artists and Collectives
A not-for-profit Aboriginal owned and run art centre, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists in Mparntwe/Alice Springs are known for their unique and distinctive soft sculptures that reveal stories and experiences of life in their community.
2019-20 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
From 2019 to 2020 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on a large, vibrant portrait of Elena Kats-Chernin by Wendy Sharpe.
101 photographic portraits
Magazine article by Michelle Fracaro, 2004
Pat Corrigan's generous gift of 100 photographic portraits by Greg Weight.
The National Portrait Prizes
29 January 2020
Archived media releases 2020
The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.
The animating signature
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2019
Joanna Gilmore delights in the affecting drawings of Mathew Lynn.
Out of the shadows
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2013
Joanna Gilmour profiles the life and times of the shutter sisters May and Mina Moore.