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Leah Purcell, c. 2000
Penny Tweedie
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2004
Gervaise Purcell
Biography
Gervaise Purcell was a commercial photographer specialising in fashion.
1 portrait in the collection
Leah King-Smith
Contributing artists
Born: 1957, Gympie, QLD
Works: Brisbane
William Dakin, c. 1943
Gervaise Purcell
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Leigh Purcell 2012
The First Meal, 2015
by Reece McMillan
Image
Boobook, 2016
by CJ Taylor
Image
Contributing artists
General content
Find out more from each of the artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.
Walter Preston
Biography
Walter Preston, engraver and convict, came to New South Wales aboard the Guildford in 1812.
1 portrait in the collection
Australia's Creative Diaspora
Photographed by Nathalie Latham
Previous exhibition, 2007
Paris based Australian photographer and filmmaker Nathalie Latham has an ongoing interest in the creative achievements of other Australian artists living in various locations around the globe.
Ready , set... shoot
Magazine article by Christine Clark, 2006
The exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus offers various interpretations of sporting men and women by five Australian photographers.
An Australian in Paris
About Face article
This week it is impossible not to contemplate the ways in which France has touched many Australian lives.
So Fine
Contemporary women artists make Australian history
Previous exhibition, 2018
This exhibition features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history, enriching the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.
Flash
Australian Athletes in Focus
Previous exhibition, 2006
Introduction The National Portrait Gallery’s photographic exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus explores various interpretations of Australian sporting men and women.
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.
The more things change...
NPPP 2017 exhibition essay
General content
Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2017 Prize.