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In Western religious art a Pietà, also called a ‘lamentation’, is an image of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Christ.

Residency prize winner, MDPA 2015

Keep it in the family

Shen Jiawei was born in China. During the Cultural Revolution he laboured in the Great Northern Wilderness, but even as he worked there, he gained recognition as an artist.



National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.


Family fortunes

Commissioned with funds provided by Maliganis Edwards Johnson and Alan Dodge AM 2018


Absence rends the heart asunder

Commissioned with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2018