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Seduce, Amuse, Entertain
NPPP 2007 exhibition essay
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Michael Desmond, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2007 Prize.
Janet Dawson
Explore The Popular Pet Show
When soulmates Janet Dawson and Michael Boddy moved from Sydney to a property, Boddy was clear about why: ‘Our marriage is one long conversation - we moved to the bush so we could talk to each other without so many interruptions.’
Michael Peck
More about In the flesh artists
Born in Melbourne in 1977, Michael Peck has a Bachelor of Fine Art (honours) (Painting) from Monash University. He has exhibited as a solo artist since 1998, when he won the National Gallery of Victoria’s Trustees Award.
Michael Simms
Vox pops
I first saw Zaachariaha Fielding perform with electric fields at Fair Day for Mardi Gras back in 2019 and they just blew me away.
Janet Dawson’s painting of Michael Boddy gives paws for thought
The Australian, 26 November 2016
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Bronwyn Watson writes about Summer 1986 for the Popular Pet Show.
Petite beauty marries gentle giant
Passion
Books, beets and heat
Reflection
More about In the flesh
A coincidence of intense self-reflection and the motif of the play-weapon occurs in the work of Melbourne artists Juan Ford and Michael Peck.
Finalists announced for National Photographic Portrait Prize
14 November 2018
Archived media releases 2018
The National Portrait Gallery would like to congratulate the forty finalists for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2019.
Textiles Scientist Voted the People’s Favourite
27 March 2019
Archived media releases 2019
The black and white portrait of an elderly woman with sidelong glance and irreverent, contemplative smile has taken out the people’s choice award in this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize.
More about In the flesh artists
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The exhibition features work from Jan Nelson, Natasha Bieniek, Patricia Piccinini, Juan Ford, Petrina Hicks, Ron Mueck, Yanni Floros, Sam Jinks, Michael Peck and Robin Eley.
A photographer’s glamorous friends
Nearest & Dearest
Community, arts, activism
Icons Syndicate
Listed alphabetically
Honour board
Blek Bala MJ, 2017
by Timothy Hillier
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Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video
In the Flesh
15 October 2014
Archived media releases 2014
Press releases and image downloads for media.
Inside Heide’s lives
It's Complicated
Happiness to heartache
2013-14 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
This 1910 portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts by Tom Roberts was brought into the Gallery's collection with the assistance of the Acquisition Fund in 2013.