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Penny
Who are you?
I'm going to introduce you to two connoisseurs. One has a lot of clothes on, and one really doesn't.
2015
Portrait Donors
New appointments to the National Portrait Gallery Board
5 November 2024
Archived media releases 2024
Minster for the Arts, The Hon. Tony Burke MP has today announced new appointments to the National Portrait Gallery Board, including Ms Sam Meers AO, who will succeed Mrs Penny Fowler AM as Chair in March 2025.
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Street fare
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The late Georgian and early Victorian working classes often bought their food in ale-houses, chop-houses and ‘penny pie shops’, or purchased their meals day after day in the streets.
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NPG Announces departure of Director, Karen Quinlan AM
3 August 2022
Archived media releases 2022
National Portrait Gallery Chair Penny Fowler announced today that NPG Director Karen Quinlan will leave the Gallery in September to take up a new position as Chief Executive Officer of Arts Centre Melbourne.
2004
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2010
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More about the National Photographic Portrait Prize
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Comments from our judges and information about entering the 2017 Prize.
New Chair of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia Board
5 November 2021
Archived media releases 2021
The Morrison Government has appointed Mrs Penny Fowler as Chair of the Board of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia (NPGA) for a 3 year term, commencing on 1 January 2022.
Very small business
General content
Under the ‘Old Poor Law’, people begging on the streets could be arrested, so to avoid punishment, they often pretended to commerce, offering the most marginal of goods and services.
The Dissecting Room
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Though initially developed by physicians, phrenology was taken up by certain non-medical practitioners who applied the theory to social questions such as education and criminal reform.
Sideshow Alley: Infamy, the macabre & the portrait
5 December 2015
Archived media releases 2015
Bushrangers, oddities, true crime and scandal come together in this modern day cabinet of curiosities.
Bree Pickering appointed Director of the National Portrait Gallery
7 February 2023
Archived media releases 2023
The Board of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia announced the appointment of Bree Pickering to the role of Director.