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A head for business and a heart for love
Lust
For love, not money
The Barkly
Other styles
A look involving very long, side whiskers that descended as far south as a gentleman’s lapels.
The Burke
Beards
A big daddy of a beard; long; bushy; rugged, but not unkempt; typically found on the faces of explorers or bushrangers.
Betina Fauvel-Ogden and James Graham
Vox pops
Well, James is my partner's son-in-law, and I've known him for quite a long time.
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.
Relationship boundaries breed marathon success
Nearest & Dearest
A bromance in banter
Hearts and craft
Passion
The long game
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.
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.
Janet Dawson
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When soulmates Janet Dawson and Michael Boddy moved from Sydney to a property, Boddy was clear about why: ‘Our marriage is one long conversation - we moved to the bush so we could talk to each other without so many interruptions.’
Photography and filming
Plan your visit
As long as it for personal use, you can take photos and videos of any of the portraits (except the ones with the No Photos icon).
Who's Jo?
General content
Find out about the curator of the exhibition.
‘Never break this heart of stone’
Lust
Desired by millions
Oz Rock
Gettin’ robbed, gettin’ stoned, gettin’ beat up, broken boned
General content
Two of the music industry’s highest-selling performers originated in suburban Australia. The Bee Gees started out in Brisbane, for instance, and AC/DC played their first gigs at a nightclub in inner Sydney.
Exhibition overview
Watch a video introducing the exhibition
General content
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.