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Gary Grealy, 2017 National 
Photographic Portrait Prize winner  

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with the Richard Morecroft 
and Alison Mackay portrait.

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The portrait was part of a series for an 
exhibition called Art Maker Patron Lover.  

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Every person is researched as much as 
I possibly can. The actual process,  

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if they're comfortable it won't be long 
10, 12, 20 frames maybe, but not too much.

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The prize has been running 10 years 
and I've entered for 10 years.  

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The very first prize was was at the at the Old 
Parliament House and I can still remember that  

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sort of thrill and excitement. But 
every year 10 years I've entered it  

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and I've been hung eight out of the ten 
years... and what happened to those last two?

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You enter it sort of with great expectation and 
with you know wishing to win but but actually  

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never really expecting to win and uh when it came 
I'm gonna say I was just absolutely gob-smacked.  

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Yeah it was sort of like it was it was it's a 
surreal thing to actually go in and my first  

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my first feeling of walking through the door to 
see the exhibition the nerves the heart is going  

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but ironically the moment that I stepped 
up I felt instantly calm which was bizarre  

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like it was really an unusual feeling because 
there was a lot of people. Man oh man.

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It gives you a platform to show you work and for 
me it was sort of really quite integral to what I  

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do because I'd actually started making portraits 
of people within the art world and that continued  

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on and for no reason there was no end game it was 
just you know this is what I'm going to do because  

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I like art and then the National Portrait Prize 
presented itself which gave an extra purpose for  

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what I was doing. I could keep doing it and there 
was you know more chance for it to be seen. I  

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think that sort of illustrates a real benefit for 
for doing these sort of things. Yeah, I think it's  

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wonderful and what better what better place for 
it to be - when you love portraiture - than the  

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National Portrait Gallery? Like it really 
doesn't get any better than that for me.