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Designing the modern world
Nearest & Dearest
Friendship, education, inspiration
Favourite portraits
General content
National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.
All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress
13 August 2015
Archived media releases 2015
This exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
All revealed in new exhibition Bare: Degrees of undress
22 July 2015
Archived media releases 2015
A new exhibition celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and the fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.
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Honour board
Architecture
About us
Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker
Richard Walley OAM honoured in new Portrait Gallery commission
2 September 2015
Archived media releases 2015
A new commissioned portrait funded by the Gallery’s Foundation will be launched at Murdoch University in Perth tonight, Wednesday 2 September.
Annual Appeal
Listed by year
Honour board
2021 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2021 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Peter Brew-Bevan's portraits of athletes Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones OAM and Ellie Cole OAM.
Pushpamala N
by Ajay Sinha
Artist essays
Pushpamala N. was born in 1956 in Bangalore. Her early training was in sculpture, but as her practice progressed she brought an early enthusiasm for narrative figuration into her photographic work.
Equation of a life – a portrait of Derek Denton
9 September 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The National Portrait Gallery, has welcomed the newest portrait commission of Emeritus Professor Derek Denton AC by Evert Ploeg.
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.
Uncommon Australians
The vision of Gordon and Marilyn Darling
General content
Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
The Bare story
General content
Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be
Less than six degrees of separation
Lecture, 28 May 2011
General content
Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.