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Awesome Achievers
A cross-curriculum learning resource
Learning resource archive
What makes someone awesome? And how does a portrait tell a person's story? Bring your students up close and personal with some great Australians. For upper primary school students.
Pedestrian Access
Location
Directions for walking to the Gallery from Civic.
Renato Colangelo
Vox pops
My process uses long exposures with analog cameras. This is shot on a medium format camera and I use a type of filter system on the back of the camera to create the juxtaposition of the frame that you see, and the cross in the middle.
Vipoo Srivilasa
Artists and Collectives
Vipoo Srivilasa is a Thai-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist, ceramicist and arts activist often exploring cross-cultural and migration experiences.
Christopher Bassi
Artists and Collectives
Known for his representational painting, Meriam and Yupungathi man Christopher Bassi, based in Meanjin/Brisbane, addresses issues surrounding cultural identity, alternative genealogies and colonial legacies.
Sean Slattery
Vox pops
This is Davide Di Giovanni and he was a principal dancer for the Sydney Dance Company for six or seven years. He got in touch with me to do some video work together and he was just so amazing.
Happiness is... extreme and unapologetic
Devotion
A glamorous, glorious visual assault
Wanted: social opposites for like-minded kink
It's Complicated
‘Scandalous conduct’
More about the National Photographic Portrait Prize
General content
Comments from our judges and information about entering the 2017 Prize.
Latai Taumoepeau
Artists and Collectives
Latai Taumoepeau, based on Gadigal Country, makes live-art-work drawing her faivÄ (temporal practice) from her homelands, the Island Kingdom of Tonga, centres Tongan philosophies to make visible the impact of climate crisis in the Pacific.
Cut and thrust
Environmental activists
General content
Harry Butler, Tim Flannery and Ian Kiernan
Oz Indie
Under the Milky Way tonight
General content
It was the era of recording your favourite songs directly from the radio; of seeing the latest acts and clips on Countdown; and when the Aussie bands you saw on TV and heard in the charts were the ones you could see live at the pub.
Three ways to look at a photograph
NPPP 2019 exhibition essay
General content
Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2019 Prize.
Bern Emmerichs
Contributing artists
Born: 1961, Melbourne
Works: Melbourne
Valerie Kirk
Contributing artists
Born: 1957, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Works: Canberra
References
General content
About the exhibition curator Claire Roberts, and writers Eugene Wang and Zhang Letian.