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Valerie Kirk
Contributing artists
Born: 1957, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Works: Canberra
Shea Kirk
Vox pops
I see everyone as being really special, amazing people and it is such a privilege to have the opportunity to work so closely and develop that relationship of trust and openness.
Shea Kirk
Vox pops
So this portrait here is part of a much larger series I've been shooting off and on for a number of years now.
Art Handlers' Award 2020
James & Jessica
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The Art Handlers' Award for 2020 went to Gemma Baxter (right view), 2019 by Shea Kirk.
The 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize
16 June 2023
Media
Shea Kirk’s portrait of friend and fellow-artist Emma Armstrong-Porter has won the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Contributing artists
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Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.
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.
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023
Learning resources
We encourage you to look, to feel, to think, to question and most importantly, to identify and connect.
Melanie Faith Dove
Finalist interviews
I had been watching Agnes with intrigue, her face and profile were so mesmerizing. On our final day together I pulled her aside and convinced her that she had such an amazing face that I needed to get a photograph for myself. It was very spontaneous in that I decided quickly how it would best look and shot it in only two frames.
So Fine
17 May 2018
Archived media releases 2018
The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce its winter exhibition is So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history. It will open to the public from 29 June 2018.
So Fine
28 June 2018
Archived media releases 2018
Ten women artists explore the possibilities of portraiture as a contemporary art form; and reinterpret and reimagine Australian history in the Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history.
Forum participants
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Biographies of participants in the Writing lives, revealing lives forum.