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Gallery unveils Portrait of Mark Ella
12 May 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Last night in Sydney, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled a newly commissioned portrait of Australian sporting legend Mark Ella AM.
Alfredo Esquillo Jr
by Patrick D. Flores
Artist essays
Born in Manila in 1972, Alfredo Esquillo Jr majored in painting at University of Santo Thomas.
Jose Legaspi
by Patrick D. Flores
Artist essays
Jose Legaspi was born in 1959 in Manila. He achieved degrees in zoology and biology before turning to fine arts in the mid-1980s.
Boxer, Blake Travers, 2017
by Patrick Bell
General content
Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video
Robin Eley
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Robin Eley studied Fine Arts at Westmont College, USA and began his career as a professional illustrator. Eley was a finalist in the Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize in 2010 and his work was Highly Commended in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize in 2010 and 2011.
Top of their game
Nobel Laureates
General content
Macfarlane Burnet and Patrick White
Rugby great unveiled
1 December 2014
Archived media releases 2014
A new portrait commission of Australian Rugby great, Ken Catchpole OAM by Gary Grealy will be officially unveiled on 3 December.
Lifelines
Medical advocates
General content
Fiona Stanley, Fiona Wood, Fred Hollows, Patrick McGorry and John Yu
Michael Peck
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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.
Natasha Bieniek
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Born in Melbourne, Natasha Bieniek began her formal artistic training at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2002. Bieniek’s When the music’s over (2006) won the Nino Sanciolo Art Prize, a painting scholarship to study at the Accademia d’Arte in Florence, where she learnt the ancient technique of egg tempera.
Gail Kelly, 2018
by Paul Newton
General content
Commissioned with funds provided by Westpac Group and Optus 2018
A life shared
Devotion
Wartime romance
Tony Shaw, 2018
by Sarah Rhodes
General content
Commissioned with funds from the Patrick Corrigan Portrait Commission Series 2018
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