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Powerful, equal, legal love
Devotion
Three weddings
Blek Bala MJ, 2017
by Timothy Hillier
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Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video
Nicola Dickson
Contributing artists
Born: 1959, Southport, QLD
Works: Canberra
Lost Love, Yiyi is tired, and Waiting on the bridge, 2014
by Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker
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Winner, MDPA 2014
Three ways to look at a photograph
NPPP 2019 exhibition essay
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Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2019 Prize.
Exhibition opening speech
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Leo Schofield introduces the exhibition, Masters of fare: chefs, winemakers, providores.
Equation of a life – a portrait of Derek Denton
9 September 2016
Archived media releases 2016
The National Portrait Gallery, has welcomed the newest portrait commission of Emeritus Professor Derek Denton AC by Evert Ploeg.
NPPP 2012 exhibition essay
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Joanna Gilmour, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2012 Prize.
So Fine
17 May 2018
Archived media releases 2018
The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce its winter exhibition is So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history. It will open to the public from 29 June 2018.
So Fine
28 June 2018
Archived media releases 2018
Ten women artists explore the possibilities of portraiture as a contemporary art form; and reinterpret and reimagine Australian history in the Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history.
Chinese Art
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A short overview of modern Chinese art from 1949 to the present.
Tejal Shah
by Gitanjali Dang
Artist essays
Born in 1979, Tejal Shah grew up in Chhattisgarh, central India, moving to Bombay in 1995.
NPPP 2012 learning resource
Learning resource archive
Exploring select works from the NPPP 2012. For secondary students.
Nikhil Chopra
by Rattanamol Johal
Artist essays
Nikhil Chopra was born in 1974, in Calcutta. His first degree was in commerce, but in 1997 he took up fine art studies, eventually gaining a Masters in Fine Art from Ohio State University, United States.
Rick Amor: 21 Portraits
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Sarah Engledow chronicles Rick Amor's work and accomplishments in this extensive essay in conjunction with the exhibition Rick Amor: 21 Portraits.
Lucy Culliton
Explore The Popular Pet Show
Most well-regarded pictures of chickens show them dead. A reliable way to tell if a chicken in a painting is dead is to check if it’s hanging upside down, because unlike, say, cockatoos, chickens don’t practise inversion for enjoyment in life.