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APS2 Visitor Experience Assistant - Casual
Applications close midnight Monday 18 November 2024
Employment opportunities
The role of Visitor Experience Assistant is part of our Visitor Experience team, which plays a crucial role in creating unforgettable moments, connecting visitors to the collection and acting as a meaning maker for our visitors through interpretations of art. Situated in the Access and Learning section, it is responsible for being the welcoming face that sets the tone for an enriching visit to the Gallery.
The Darling
Moustaches
Beards were generally been out for British military men in the 1800s: civilians might have worn them as badges of masculinity, but in the army they were perhaps a bit too close to indiscipline for comfort.
The hand of Captain Cook
Google Arts and Culture
Learning resources
Take a close look at a portrait with a hidden message in its hands. For Year 7 – 9 students.
Bequests
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Luther Cora
Vox pops
Yeah, so it's my daughter. So, I shot this last year, I think on the Gold Coast, we had a little lockdown period, couple of lockdown period.
A photographer’s glamorous friends
Nearest & Dearest
Community, arts, activism
Elegance in Exile
Learning Resource
Learning resource archive
Taking a selection of works from our 2012 exhibition Elegance in Exile: Portrait drawing from colonial Australia, this resource aims to introduce the lives of subjects and artists, provide an insight into colonial times in Australia, encourage close examination of portraits and explore how portraits can be used as primary historical documents. For primary students.
Nan Goldin
Tough & Tender
General content
The photographs by Nan Goldin in Tough and tender are warm images of heartache and hope.
Body Emulsion Detachment, 2016
by Lucas Davidson
General content
Finalist, DPA 2016
Last week to vote for your favourite portrait
1 June 2015
Archived media releases 2015
The National Portrait Gallery’s National Photographic Portrait Prize 2015 will close Monday 8 June 2015, this is the last week to visit the exhibition in Canberra and vote for your favourite portrait in the People’s Choice.
Wayne Quilliam
Vox pops
The important part about it is is where it was captured. That's the Laura Quinkan Dance Festival, where our remote communities gather every two years to celebrate culture, to share knowledge, and to share stories.
Shifting the definition
Nearest & Dearest
Defiant commitment
Literary lovers’ life liaison
Lust
Desire drives forbidden love
Backstage on the way to the top
Passion
Living for the moment
A very great and stimulating thrill
It's Complicated
Just good friends?
Foundation
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