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William Robinson
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Unique in the world, perhaps, is a bronze sculpture that fuses the age-old human portrait bronze tradition, and the later genre of the bronze pug figurine: that’d be William Robinson’s Self-portrait with pug.
Leah King-Smith
Contributing artists
Born: 1957, Gympie, QLD
Works: Brisbane
An international troupe of two
It's Complicated
Office romance
Blue Wolf, 2014
by Imogen Henry
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Finalist, MDPA 2014
Ben Roberts-Smith, 2018
by Julian Kingma
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Commissioned in 2018 with funds raised through the 2020 project
Our only concern is the void, 2013
by Nik Lee
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Winner, MDPA 2013
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Honour board
Extraordinary airmen make aviation history
Passion
Charles is my wingman
2021 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.
Contributing artists
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Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.
Favourite portraits
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National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.
2020 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.
The Lawson
Moustaches
It’s curious that one of the writers most associated with the toughness of Australian bush life was himself not an exponent of the matted, rugged bushman sort of beard.
The Parkes
Beards
It wasn’t uncommon for the pro-beard fraternity of the mid nineteenth century to cite beards as a sign of wisdom on the grounds that Socrates and other ancient philosophers had worn them.
Annual Appeal
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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.