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Collier Schorr
Tough & Tender
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This is the first time Collier Schorr's photographs, which explore gender and identity, have been shown in Australia.
Naomi Hobson
Artists and Collectives
Multidisciplinary artist Naomi Hobson, of the Kaantju language group and Patta skin group, after the Death Adder snake, lives and works on Country in Coen, Cape York Peninsula addressing powerful links between Country and identity.
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Richard Avedon People
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A magnificent rivalry
Australia's America's Cup challengers
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Alexander (Jock) Sturrock and Alan Bond
Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018
by Louise Hearman
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Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018
Tony Shaw, 2018
by Sarah Rhodes
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Commissioned with funds from the Patrick Corrigan Portrait Commission Series 2018
Chris Burden
Tough & Tender
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In the video in Tough and tender Chris Burden narrates his performance artworks characterised by focused attention to mind over physical body.
All the world's a stage
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Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe
Match made in entertainment heaven
Passion
When the stars align
Powerful, equal, legal love
Devotion
Three weddings
Robin Eley
More about In the flesh artists
Robin Eley studied Fine Arts at Westmont College, USA and began his career as a professional illustrator. Eley was a finalist in the Eutick Memorial Still Life Prize in 2010 and his work was Highly Commended in the Doug Moran Portrait Prize in 2010 and 2011.
Michael Peck
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Born in Melbourne in 1977, Michael Peck has a Bachelor of Fine Art (honours) (Painting) from Monash University. He has exhibited as a solo artist since 1998, when he won the National Gallery of Victoria’s Trustees Award.
Atong Atem
Artists and Collectives
Atong Atem is an Ethiopian-born, South Sudanese artist and writer living in Narrm/Melbourne. Her work explores migrant narratives and postcolonial practices in the African diaspora.
Sally Smart
Artists and Collectives
Based in Naarm/Melbourne, Sally Smart is known nationally and internationally for her large-scale cut-out assemblages, collages, textile works and puppetry.
From riot to revelry
Nearest & Dearest
Pride, protest, panache
Rugby great a fine addition to Portrait Gallery Collection
21 March 2017
Archived media releases 2017
A portrait of Australian rugby great, Dr Mark Loane AM MBBS FRANZO FRACS, is the latest addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s permanent collection. The work is the final in a series of three commissioned portraits of Australian rugby luminaries funded by Gallery benefactor, Mr Patrick Corrigan AM.