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Favourite portraits
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National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.
Yanni Floros
More about In the flesh artists
Yanni Floros is an Adelaide based artist who trained at the National Art School in Sydney graduating as a sculpture major. Since then he has shown his work both locally and internationally in Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.
Who's Jo?
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Find out about the curator of the exhibition.
‘Never break this heart of stone’
Lust
Desired by millions
Exhibition overview
Watch a video introducing the exhibition
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MDPA judge Jeff Khan, Artistic Director, Performance Space, Sydney.
Nell
Artists and Collectives
Nell is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land in the Eora Nation, Sydney. Her work fuses mythological, spiritual and popular cultural iconography.
Deborah Kelly
Artists and Collectives
Deborah Kelly, based between Gadigal Country, Sydney and Jerrinja Country, Currarong, is known for her multi-disciplinary, exuberant and diverse participatory collages and costumes that come to life in workshops and performances.
Artist lovers re-united across the seas
Devotion
Exile burnishes love’s bond
Maritime disaster leaves poignant picture
Devotion
Absence rends the heart asunder
From riot to revelry
Nearest & Dearest
Pride, protest, panache
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.
Oz Punk
Sends a permanent shiver down my spine
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In 1976, without having been blooded on the Sydney or Melbourne pub circuit, The Saints recorded a single – ‘(I’m) Stranded’ – earning them the distinction of releasing a punk single before The Sex Pistols did.
Linde Ivimey
Contributing artists
Born: 1965, Sydney
Works: Sydney
The most material advantages
Devotion
A one-in-a-thousand woman
CO-AP
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Based in Sydney, CO-AP endeavour to realise unique outcomes for each project, achieved through a strong and reliable collaborative process.
A head for business and a heart for love
Lust
For love, not money