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The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders both past and present.

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Writing on the Wall, 2019 Dr Christian Thompson AO

To arrive at hope

NPPP 2020 exhibition essay

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Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.

Nan and Brian in bed, New York City 1983 by Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin

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The photographs by Nan Goldin in Tough and tender are warm images of heartache and hope.

Bern Emmerichs video: 4 minutes

Bern Emmerichs

Contributing artists

Born: 1961, Melbourne
Works: Melbourne

Mämburrkmamburrk, the grouping of the clouds, 2017 by Mundatjŋu Munuŋgurr, video: 3 minutes

Mämburrkmamburrk, the grouping of the clouds, 2017

by Mundatjŋu Munuŋgurr

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Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video

David Malouf

2012-13 Acquisition Fund

The Circle of Friends Acquisition Fund for 2012 was dedicated to purchasing a portrait of David Malouf by Rick Amor.

To Look Away – Tilda, 2015 by Sophie Hyde, video: 18 minutes

To Look Away – Tilda, 2015

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Finalist, DPA 2016

Joey Chan

Joey Chan

Feeling a bit emotional. Took this portrait and it was the last photo I took of her.

Studio self-portrait, 2018 Vincent Namatjira OAM

Never let you go

Nearest & Dearest

Country, culture, connection

Michael Simms

Michael Simms

I first saw Zaachariaha Fielding perform with electric fields at Fair Day for Mardi Gras back in 2019 and they just blew me away.

Match man, Salisbury by John Dempsey

Very small business

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Under the ‘Old Poor Law’, people begging on the streets could be arrested, so to avoid punishment, they often pretended to commerce, offering the most marginal of goods and services.

Tom Goldner

Tom Goldner

The portrait's of my mother, Catherine, and the photograph was taken in a family home that we had and my mother was relocating to Tasmania.

Bree Pickering in front of Mikala Dwyer, Chromakinda, 2022, installation view, Murray Art Museum Albury

Bree Pickering appointed Director of the National Portrait Gallery

7 February 2023

The Board of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia announced the appointment of Bree Pickering to the role of Director.

Mrs Woods and ‘Ere

Person and Place

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The connection between land and identity holds great significance in Australia. While for First Nations people, person and place are intertwined both culturally and spiritually, forming an intrinsic union between Country and self, stories of colonisation and migration are also deeply bound to this nation.

Fiona McMonagle video: 5 minutes

Fiona McMonagle

Contributing artists

Born: 1977, Letterkenny, Ireland
Works: Melbourne

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New partnership with Stripy Sock

Archived media releases 2016

We have a new partnership with Canberra-based leading mobile application development consultancy, Stripy Sock.

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