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Hosting Archie Moore - Mīal
Hosting a touring exhibition
Archie Moore is a celebrated Kamilaroi and Bigambul artist whose practice is embedded in the politics of identity, racism and language systems. Mīal is a conceptual self portrait that counters expectations of what a self portrait should be.
Dr John Janson-Moore
Vox pops
The Zammitt Family is part of a massive series of mine that I've been doing since early 2020, documenting COVID in and around Sydney.
Animation 1 from the series Hereinbefore, 2012
by Laura Moore
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Winner, iD2012
An international troupe of two
It's Complicated
Office romance
Blue Wolf, 2014
by Imogen Henry
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Finalist, MDPA 2014
Our only concern is the void, 2013
by Nik Lee
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Winner, MDPA 2013
Playing by their own rules
Passion
Joined at the hip
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.
Favourite portraits
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National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.
The Lawson
Moustaches
It’s curious that one of the writers most associated with the toughness of Australian bush life was himself not an exponent of the matted, rugged bushman sort of beard.
‘Never break this heart of stone’
Lust
Desired by millions
The Parkes
Beards
It wasn’t uncommon for the pro-beard fraternity of the mid nineteenth century to cite beards as a sign of wisdom on the grounds that Socrates and other ancient philosophers had worn them.
The 1890s to the 1940s
Mo and beard timeline
Although the tough, weathered, hard-drinking bushmen of the kind mythologised by writers like Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson are popularly associated with the character of late nineteenth century Australia, it was also a time when alternative ideas about identity began to come into play.
Maritime disaster leaves poignant picture
Devotion
Absence rends the heart asunder
In the most correct style
Nearest & Dearest
Desirable outcomes, undesirable origins
Street fare
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The late Georgian and early Victorian working classes often bought their food in ale-houses, chop-houses and ‘penny pie shops’, or purchased their meals day after day in the streets.