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Harold David Takes out the People’s Choice Award for this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize
8 June 2018
Archived media releases 2018
The votes are in and the National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce The Honourable Bob Hawke savouring a strawberry milkshake by Harold David is the people’s choice for the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018.
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Former Board Chairs
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All the world's a stage
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Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe
Tough & Tender Media Release
14 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.
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Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Neville Bonner, Lowitja O'Donoghue, Mandawuy Yunupingu and Adam Goodes
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National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024
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Let’s take a look at the National Photographic Portrait Prize for 2024!
Portraiture at the centre of new ABC television series
29 August 2025
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The National Portrait Gallery, and Director Bree Pickering, will feature in a brand-new, eight-party competition series – Portrait Artist of the Year. In the series, amateur and professional artists go head-to-head, competing for the ultimate prize: a life-changing commission to hang in the National Portrait Gallery. [Image: Abdul Abdullah, Bree Pickering, Robert Wellington, Miranda Tapsell and Luke McGregor. Courtesy ABC.]
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