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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons.

Kate

Favourite portraits

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National Portrait Gallery staff introduce their favourite portraits from the exhibition.

Look Closer, 2013 by Yanni Floros

Yanni Floros

More about In the flesh artists

Yanni Floros is an Adelaide based artist who trained at the National Art School in Sydney graduating as a sculpture major. Since then he has shown his work both locally and internationally in Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Who's Jo?

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Find out about the curator of the exhibition.

Rolling Stones fans, Sydney

‘Never break this heart of stone’

Lust

Desired by millions

Exhibition overview

Watch a video introducing the exhibition
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MDPA judge Jeff Khan, Artistic Director, Performance Space, Sydney.

Nell standing in her workshop next to a cross legged sculpture

Nell

Artists and Collectives

Nell is a multidisciplinary artist based on Gadigal land in the Eora Nation, Sydney. Her work fuses mythological, spiritual and popular cultural iconography.

Deborah Kelly sitting on a blue couch in a room with artworks on the walls

Deborah Kelly

Artists and Collectives

Deborah Kelly, based between Gadigal Country, Sydney and Jerrinja Country, Currarong, is known for her multi-disciplinary, exuberant and diverse participatory collages and costumes that come to life in workshops and performances.

Lan Wang

Artist lovers re-united across the seas

Devotion

Exile burnishes love’s bond

Marianne Egan and her children Gertrude Evans Cahuac and Henry William Cahuac

Maritime disaster leaves poignant picture

Devotion

Absence rends the heart asunder

Graham Sylvester's crowd, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1983 William Yang

From riot to revelry

Nearest & Dearest

Pride, protest, panache

Sean Slattery

Sean Slattery

Vox pops

This is Davide Di Giovanni and he was a principal dancer for the Sydney Dance Company for six or seven years. He got in touch with me to do some video work together and he was just so amazing.

The Boys Next Door

Oz Punk

Sends a permanent shiver down my spine
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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.

Linde Ivimey video: 6 minutes

Linde Ivimey

Contributing artists

Born: 1965, Sydney
Works: Sydney

Reputedly Elizabeth Macarthur, 1785-1790 Unknown

The most material advantages

Devotion

A one-in-a-thousand woman

Portrait of CO-AP, 2009 by Ross Honeysett

CO-AP

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Based in Sydney, CO-AP endeavour to realise unique outcomes for each project, achieved through a strong and reliable collaborative process.

Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa

A head for business and a heart for love

Lust

For love, not money

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