Sydney-based practice Johnson Pilton Walker designed the new National Portrait Gallery building.
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Finalist, MDPA 2013
Finalist, iD2012
A meeting of minds
In 1976, without having been blooded on the Sydney or Melbourne pub circuit, The Saints recorded a single – ‘(I’m) Stranded’ – earning them the distinction of releasing a punk single before The Sex Pistols did.
Art, war, scandal
The long game
Infatuation and (ill-fated) exploration
According to an 1981 Australian Women’s Weekly profile of fast bowler Dennis Lillee, a moustache was a ‘compulsory’ accessory for sportsmen.
In 2022 the Annual Appeal was focussed on Mayatjara by Robert Fielding, a series of 24 photographs of Elders of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara community.
Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann and Raigh Roe
Photographs from internationally acclaimed artists Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Collier Schorr and Chris Burden along with contemporary Australian artists, Rozalind Drummond and Warwick Baker will call the National Portrait Gallery home during our extraordinary winter exhibition Tough and Tender.
Marriage: a prolonged disaster
Poetic trio
Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker
