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The National Portrait Prizes
29 January 2020
Archived media releases 2020
The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.
All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress
13 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015
This exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
2012-13 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.
All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress
22 July 2015
Archived media releases 2015
A new exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and the fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
2020 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.
Annual Appeal
Listed by year
Honour board
Nicholas Harding
Explore The Popular Pet Show
Over the years the young Nicholas Harding got his hands on various mice and guinea pigs, but they served mainly to illustrate the concept of mortality.
Portrait Donors
Listed by year
Honour board
Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits
Exhibition essay
General content
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
Everybody, look serious
NPPP 2014 exhibition essay
General content
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2014 Prize.