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Forough Yavari

Forough Yavari

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This work is Serenity, it's actually it's part of a series, Salvation that I've been working the past couple of years. And for this project I'm inspired by Langston Hughes.
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New Chief Patron for the National Portrait Gallery

8 March 2016
Archived media releases 2016

Mrs Lucy Hughes Turnbull AO has accepted an invitation to become the new Chief Patron of the National Portrait Gallery. 
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Robert H. Black MD

The artist and the doctor

Lust

Art, war, scandal
Li Cunxin

Li Cunxin, 2017–2018

by Jun Chen
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Commissioned with funds provided by Tim Fairfax AC 2018
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Ruby (left view), 2022 Shea Kirk

National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023

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We encourage you to look, to feel, to think, to question and most importantly, to identify and connect.
George Reid paperweight

Some prime ministers

General content

Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Noel McKenna, 2016 by Mark Mohell

Noel McKenna

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It’s a matter beyond dispute that in the entire history of Australian art, it’s Noel McKenna who’s painted the liveliest rendition of the head of a Chihuahua.
David Marr, 2011 by Nicholas Harding

Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits

Exhibition essay
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Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
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