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Warwick Baker
Tough & Tender
General content
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
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.
Lost Love, Yiyi is tired, and Waiting on the bridge, 2014
by Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker
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Winner, MDPA 2014
Help warm the Canberra community
4 July 2016
Archived media releases 2016
National Portrait Gallery and the St Vincent de Paul Society are asking Canberrans to pick up their knitting needles and crochet hooks to create warm winter scarves to assist people in need.
Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014
22 August 2014
Archived media releases 2014
Press releases for media.
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Honour board
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.
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.
2013-14 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
This 1910 portrait of Elizabeth Sarah (Lillie) Roberts by Tom Roberts was brought into the Gallery's collection with the assistance of the Acquisition Fund in 2013.
2012-13 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.
Alex Frayne
NPPP 2012 learning resource
An interview with the photographer.
The Winner of the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 is...
2 December 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The winner of the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 has been announced. Congratulations to Amiel Courtin-Wilson for his submission titled Charles.
Paul Kelly and The Portraits media information
18 June 2013
Archived media releases 2013
Paul Kelly & The Portraits presents a multifaceted image of the performer over the course of his career.
2015-17 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
From 2015 to 2017 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on Reg Richardson AM by Mitch Cairns, a finalist in the Archibald Prize 2014, and a great example of minimalist portraiture.
Past directors
History
Directors of the National Portrait Gallery from 1998 to today.