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Jumpstart

Jessica Herrington won the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize in 2008 with a work about the difficulty we have revealing ourselves in front of the camera.

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Six and Out
Six and Out
Molonglo River
Molonglo River
Self Rendering
Self Rendering
I contemplate my life as a superhero
I contemplate my life as a superhero
Big Nude (after Helmut Newton)
Big Nude (after Helmut Newton)
At work
At work
Ad Infinitum Self
Ad Infinitum Self
Untitled (Self Portraits)
Untitled (Self Portraits)
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Awkward self, 2008 by Jessica Herrington NYSPP 2008 winner
Awkward self, 2008 by Jessica Herrington NYSPP 2008 winner
Awkward self, 2008 by Jessica Herrington NYSPP 2008 winner
Awkward self, 2008 by Jessica Herrington NYSPP 2008 winner

National Youth Self Portrait Prize

NYSPP 2008

Previous exhibition, 2008

At the end of 2007 the National Portrait Gallery launched the inaugural National Youth Self Portrait Prize and artists aged between eighteen and twenty-five were invited to submit self portraits using a variety of media including drawing, painting, printmaking and traditional or digital photography.
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