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Immediately, there was a crackle
It's Complicated
A meeting of minds
The artist and the doctor
Lust
Art, war, scandal
Hearts and craft
Passion
The long game
Of Burke, Wills ... and wills
It's Complicated
Infatuation and (ill-fated) exploration
2022 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.
All the world's a stage
General content
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.
Shifting the definition
Nearest & Dearest
Defiant commitment
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2024
Learning resources
Let’s take a look at the National Photographic Portrait Prize for 2024!
Bangarra brothers: songman, storyteller, dancer
Passion
Creative kin
Honour board
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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.
2012-13 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2018 winner announced
23 March 2018
Archived media releases 2018
Finalists have been eagerly awaiting the announcement of the Winner and Highly Commended for the National Photographic Portrait Prize since December. It is our pleasure to announce the Winner for 2018 is Lee Grant for her portrait titled Charlie and Highly Commended has been awarded to Filomena Rizzo for her portrait titled My Olivia.
Alienation
More about In the flesh
Segregated from their fellow humans in cellophane prisons, reference points are removed, so it is not certain whether these naked figures could be unwrapped, are about to be subsumed, or will forever be suspended in a plastic stasis.
2014-15 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
Kristin Headlam's portrait of Chris Wallace-Crabbe was acquired with the support of the Circle of Friends in 2014.