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Warwick Baker
Tough & Tender
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The photographs in Tough and tender by Warwick Baker reveal intimate connections and moments of closeness.
Blek Bala MJ, 2017
by Timothy Hillier
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Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video
Lost Love, Yiyi is tired, and Waiting on the bridge, 2014
by Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker
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Winner, MDPA 2014
Thinking of England
Passion
Truly, madly, deeply
Sam Jinks
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Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Sam Jinks’ work can be found in various public collections that include the Kiran Nader Museum of Art, Dehli, India and the Museo Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporaenea (MEFIC), Portugal.
Tough & Tender Media Release
14 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016
Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.
Rozalind Drummond
Tough & Tender
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The photographs in Tough & tender by Rozalind Drummond evoke individual freedom and personal reflection.
Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014
22 August 2014
Archived media releases 2014
Press releases for media.
A charming prospect
Nearest & Dearest
Family fortunes
Jan Nelson
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Jan Nelson was born in Melbourne. She graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 1983 and has been exhibited her work in both solo and group exhibitions throughout Australia since that time including at the MCA, Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and the Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide.
Juan Ford
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Juan Ford received a Master of Art, by research, from RMIT University in 2001. His many commissions include the National Gallery of Victoria’s interactive work You, me and the flock for Melbourne Now 2013/2014 and a project for Hotel de Immigrantes, a project in Manifesta 9, the European Biennale in 2012.
Michael Peck
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Born in Melbourne in 1977, Michael Peck has a Bachelor of Fine Art (honours) (Painting) from Monash University. He has exhibited as a solo artist since 1998, when he won the National Gallery of Victoria’s Trustees Award.
Lovely Lillie and Dirty Bertie
Lust
Royal romps: illicit liaisons
2022 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.
Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015 finalists announced
17 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The National Portrait Gallery have selected the finalists for the Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015.
15 minutes of frame
NPG Wellington, Edinburgh and Canberra, 10th March 2021
Recorded virtual programs
Delve into the lives, loves and labour of the world’s most prominent portrait galleries in this international conversation series.