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Californian clinch in the ‘Australian’ outback
Lust
Long-term love scene
Australian Love Stories
4 January 2021
Archived media releases 2021
A major new exhibition celebrating love in all its guises. Opening 20 March 2021.
Harriet Schwarzrock: spaces between movement and stillness
10 February 2021
Archived media releases 2021
To celebrate the new exhibition Australian Love Stories, renowned Australian glass artist Harriet Schwarzrock has been commissioned to make a large-scale installation reflecting on the role the heart plays as our emotional centre.
National Portrait Gallery Director announced
20 December 2013
Archived media releases 2013
The National Portrait Gallery welcomes Angus Trumble
Costa Georgiadis wins the National Portrait Gallery’s People’s Portrait
5 March 2025
Media
In 2024, the National Portrait Gallery took the extraordinary step of inviting the Australian public to choose the subject of its next commission. Twenty-five years after the Gallery’s first commission – the iconic Nick Cave by Howard Arkley – and nearly 90 commissions later, the people of Australia were invited to make their voice heard. Who did the public most want to see represented in their National Portrait Gallery?
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.
2020 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2020 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Sally Robinson's remarkable portrait of author Tim Winton.
The Immersive World of Thom Roberts
12 April – 20 July 2025
Media
The first solo exhibition for this multidisciplinary, contemporary Australian artist, The Immersive World of Thom Roberts opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 12 April.
Announcing... Portrait23: Identity
15 November 2022
Media
In this major new exhibition marking the National Portrait Gallery’s third decade, 23 Australian artists and collectives have been invited to create portraits without constraints or boundaries.
Annual Appeal
Listed by year
Honour board
Inner Worlds and psychoanalysis
Lecture, 4 June 2011
General content
Inner Worlds evokes a broad view of psychology as a discipline. However, the specific interests of the practitioners whose portraits are included in the exhibition incorporate specialist areas including psychoanalysis.
Faces of war
Lecture, 14 May 2011
General content
Lesley Harding, Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne explores Albert Tucker’s experience of World War II, his interests in the intersection between psychology and creativity, and their influence on his portrait making.