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The hand of Captain Cook
Google Arts and Culture
Learning resources
Take a close look at a portrait with a hidden message in its hands. For Year 7 – 9 students.
To arrive at hope
NPPP 2020 exhibition essay
General content
Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.
Caroline Zilinsky and John Feitelson
Vox pops
John is a very unique character so I really wanted to capture that uniqueness.
John Brack's Portraiture
Google Arts and Culture
Learning resources
Learn about artist John Brack, who said that portraits involve three people: the painter, the sitter and the viewer. For Year 6 – 8 students.
Jacki Weaver, 2018
by John Tsiavis
General content
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling AC 2018
Tan Le, 2018
by John Tsiavis
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Commissioned with funds provided by the Sid and Fiona Myer Family Foundation 2018
Nan Goldin
Tough & Tender
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The photographs by Nan Goldin in Tough and tender are warm images of heartache and hope.
Bern Emmerichs
Contributing artists
Born: 1961, Melbourne
Works: Melbourne
Jane’s conviction
Devotion
Stand by your man
John McRae
NPPP 2012 learning resource
An interview with the photographer.
Dr John Janson-Moore
Vox pops
The Zammitt Family is part of a massive series of mine that I've been doing since early 2020, documenting COVID in and around Sydney.
John Dempsey folio
General content
View the full collection of portraits in the exhibition.
Top of the pops to golden guitars
General content
The Seekers, John Farnham and Lee Kernaghan
Mämburrkmamburrk, the grouping of the clouds, 2017
by Mundatjŋu Munuŋgurr
General content
Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video
The last bushrangers
It's Complicated
Brothers in harms
Dream date delivers destiny
Passion
The perfect match