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Hugh 2015, by Warwick Baker

Warwick Baker

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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, video: 6 minutes

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

Her Majesty seated

Thinking of England

Truly, madly, deeply

Unsettled dogs, 2012 by Sam Jinks

Sam Jinks

More about In the flesh artists

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.

Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker

Tough & Tender Media Release

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.

Vy (Cowsill) 2016 by Rozalind Drummond

Rozalind Drummond

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The photographs in Tough & tender by Rozalind Drummond evoke individual freedom and personal reflection.

Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2014

Archived media releases 2014

Press releases for media.

William Robertson and Martha Mary Robertson

A charming prospect

Nearest & Dearest

Family fortunes

Walking in Tall Grass, Marion 2, 2011 by Jan Nelson

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.

The Reorientalist, 2013 by Juan Ford

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.

Recruit (Self Portrait in the image of my son), 2012 by Michael Peck

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.

Lillie Langtry

Lovely Lillie and Dirty Bertie

Royal romps: illicit liaisons

Sammy Dodd

2022 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.

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Macquarie Digital Portraiture Award 2015 finalists announced

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.

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