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An Arctic Time Signature
by Devika Bilimoira
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Finalist, MDPA 2015
The Streetons’ rich serenade
Passion
If music be the food of love
Vulnerability
More about In the flesh
London-based artist Ron Mueck creates an intense awareness of the different ways in which we experience vulnerability and a strong sense of tenderness is never far away.
Do you know more?
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The National Portrait Gallery is calling on family history enthusiasts and amateur historians to help reveal more about the people in Dempsey’s People: A folio of British street portraits from 1824-1844.
Calling all family history buffs
3 July 2017
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The National Portrait Gallery is calling on family history enthusiasts and amateur historians to tell it more about the people in its new show, Dempsey’s People: A folio of British street portraits from 1824-1844.
Heather Corrigan
Finalist interviews
The lovely faces in my photograph are that of my best friends. Some I have only known for a couple of months, others for most of my life. For me, recreating a family portrait with individuals I love was supremely important. I was reconstructing a photo of people I cherish with people I adore.
Richard Avedon People media information
8 August 2013
Archived media releases 2013
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Anna Meares, 2018
by Narelle Autio
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Commissioned with funds provided by King & Wood Mallesons 2018
The Writer: Peter Goldsworthy, 2018
by Deidre But-Husaim
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Commissioned with funds provided by Jillian Broadbent AO and Dr Helen Nugent AO 2018.
Philanthropic donations enable otherwise unobtainable acquisition
20 October 2016
Archived media releases 2016
A magnanimous portrait of Helena Rubinstein has been acquired for the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.
Some women you may not know
Alison Alder
‘Everybody’s lives are built by so many influences, and for me, it is writers, artists and activists who have influenced how I think about the world.’
Reflections
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All that fall: Sacrifice, life and loss in the First World War exhibition co-curators Dr Anne Sanders and Dr Christopher Chapman reflect on the evolution of the Gallery’s Anzac Centenary exhibition.
History
About us
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
The Bare story
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Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be
Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits
Exhibition essay
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Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.