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Anna Culliton
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Anna Culliton never had a colouring-in book when she was little. Her parents –Tony, a filmmaker, and Stephanie, a painter – wouldn’t let her have one. Instead, they insisted on her drawing her own pictures to colour-in.
Johnson Pilton Walker
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Sydney-based practice Johnson Pilton Walker designed the new National Portrait Gallery building.
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Anna Meares, 2018
by Narelle Autio
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Commissioned with funds provided by King & Wood Mallesons 2018
Untitled, 2013
by Brett Walker
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Finalist, MDPA 2013
The silent spectre of motion (Le spectre silencieux du movement), 2012
by Bridget Walker
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Finalist, iD2012
The Tangles
Moustaches
According to an 1981 Australian Women’s Weekly profile of fast bowler Dennis Lillee, a moustache was a ‘compulsory’ accessory for sportsmen.
Nothing black and white about the Greys
It's Complicated
Marriage: a prolonged disaster
Friendship’s rhyme and reason
Nearest & Dearest
Poetic trio
Architecture
About us
Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker
Angelica Mesiti
Artists and Collectives
Internationally renowned, Paris-based artist Angelica Mesiti creates video installations that are absorbing and profound experiences for audiences.
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Oz Punk
Sends a permanent shiver down my spine
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In 1976, without having been blooded on the Sydney or Melbourne pub circuit, The Saints recorded a single – ‘(I’m) Stranded’ – earning them the distinction of releasing a punk single before The Sex Pistols did.
2022 Annual Appeal
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.
iD Digital Portraiture Award winner announced
2 August 2012
Archived media releases 2012
The inaugural winner of the $10,000 iD Digital Portraiture Award was announced this morning at the National Portrait Gallery.
Pets of all types take over the National Portrait Gallery
3 November 2016
Archived media releases 2016
It is not every day that a national gallery turns its walls over to the animal companions that bring unconditional love and joy to their owners but this summer we have opened the doors to 15 contemporary artists with very different ways of depicting our furry, feathered and scaled pets.