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The Cosmopolitans
Now on display in Gallery Two
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Spanning the 1880s to the 1930s, this collection display celebrates the innovations in art – and life – introduced by the generation of Australians who travelled to London and Paris for experience and inspiration in the decades either side of 1900.
Ben McNamara
Vox pops
This is Marissa Gallagher from Kintore, which if you're in Alice Springs, just go west until the WA border, just before that, a traditional area of Pintupi mob.
Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits opens
9 November 2017
Archived media releases 2017
Visitors will be left in awe with the National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s (NFSA) new star-studded exhibition, Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018
8 March 2018
Archived media releases 2018
Images for media use will be available from 8 March 2018.
Announcing... Portrait23: Identity
15 November 2022
Media
In this major new exhibition marking the National Portrait Gallery’s third decade, 23 Australian artists and collectives have been invited to create portraits without constraints or boundaries.
The more things change...
NPPP 2017 exhibition essay
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Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board