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Wendy Whiteley in conversation with Janet Hawley
19 October 2015
Archived media releases 2015
Wendy Whiteley in candid conversation with Janet Hawley to celebrate the release of the book Wendy Whiteley and The Secret Garden.
The Mosh Pit
General content
More photographs by Bob King, Stuart Spence, 'pling, Tony Mott, and Wendy McDougall.
The Whiteleys: passion, creation, destruction
Lust
Sensuous symmetry
2019-20 Acquisition Fund
Annual Appeal
From 2019 to 2020 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on a large, vibrant portrait of Elena Kats-Chernin by Wendy Sharpe.
People's Choice Award announcement
General content
We are delighted to announce the winner of the $10,000 People's Choice Award for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize is David Darcy for his painting of farmer and environmentalist Wendy Bowman.
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.
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.
The People’s Choice Awards
16 June 2020
Archived media releases 2020
The votes have been counted, and the winners of the National Portrait Gallery’s People’s Choice Awards for the Prize exhibitions are...
Announcing... Pub Rock
11 August 2020
Archived media releases 2020
An exhibition that celebrates the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on the nation’s identity, opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 5 September, 2020.
Explore The Popular Pet Show
The artists and their furry friends
General content
Curator, Sarah Engledow, introduces the artists and the animals in The Popular Pet Show.
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.
Graeme Drendel
Explore The Popular Pet Show
I like talking about Drendel’s pictures as if they expressed dreams of my own.
William Robinson
Explore The Popular Pet Show
Unique in the world, perhaps, is a bronze sculpture that fuses the age-old human portrait bronze tradition, and the later genre of the bronze pug figurine: that’d be William Robinson’s Self-portrait with pug.
The National Portrait Prizes
29 January 2020
Archived media releases 2020
The National Portrait Gallery today announced finalists for the inaugural Darling Portrait Prize, a national new $75,000 prize for Australian portrait painting, and released selected images from the final prize pool for the popular National Photography Portrait Prize.
2023 Annual Appeal
Annual Appeal
In 2023 the Annual Appeal was focussed on a work by one of Australia's best loved and most successful portrait painters, Judy Cassab AO CBE, depicting model, entrepreneur and deportment icon, June Dally-Watkins OAM.