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An interview with Jessica Hromas, Finalist in the Living Memory National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Commissioned with funds provided by Sony Music Entertainment Australia 2018
The Art Handlers' Award for 2021 went to Kristina Kraskov for I'm just a suburban fashionista.
The Art Handlers' Award for 2020 went to Gemma Baxter (right view), 2019 by Shea Kirk.
The Art Handlers' Award for 2023 went to Ugandan Ssebabi, 2022 by David Cossini.
The National Portrait Gallery has unveiled twenty new portrait commissions of Australian leaders and individualists as part of its twentieth birthday celebrations in a new exhibition, 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.
The following on-line and physical exhibitions are planned to open at the National Portrait Gallery in coming months. For those who can’t travel at present, selected works from all exhibitions will be included online
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