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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

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.


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




Commissioned with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2018

The Chairman, Board, Director and all the Staff of the National Portrait Gallery mourn the loss of our Founding Patron, who died peacefully in Melbourne this morning. He was 94.
