
I like talking about Drendel’s pictures as if they expressed dreams of my own.




A new commissioned portrait funded by the Gallery’s Foundation will be launched at Murdoch University in Perth tonight, Wednesday 2 September.

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.



Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.