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Little Darlings is for primary and secondary students, with four separate categories across Kindergarten to Year 12. Responding to the theme ‘identity’, students painted, drew, photographed, printed or combined all of these to make their portrait.
Sir Edgar Barton ‘EB’ Coles (1899-1981) was the longest-serving chief executive of the Coles retail group.
2 portraits in the collection
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program
Giles Auty introduces British painter John Wonnacott who will talk at the National Portrait Gallery on 2 November 2002.
The exhibition is selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects.
The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.
Michael Wardell samples the fare in the University of Queensland National Self-portrait Prize.
Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.
Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.
Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.
Gael Newton looks at Australian photography, film and the sixties through the novel lens of Mark Strizic.
Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the gift of two striking paintings by the Australian artist Ken Done AM.
Aimee Board reveals method, motivation and mortality in the portraiture of Rod McNicol.
Joanna Gilmour discusses the role of the carte de visite in portraiture’s democratisation, and its harnessing by Victoria, the world’s first media monarch.
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.