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Considering Representation
In Conversation
45 minutes
Join Associate Curator Rebecca Ray and Director Collection and Exhibitions Sandra Bruce for a conversation on the presence of First Nations people in portraiture today.
Birds-eye view
In Conversation
46 minutes
Jump in the nest and join the brood as we celebrate National Bird Week! We’ll take a birds-eye view of the collection, and explore faces of folks with their feathered friends. BYO binoculars.
Chance encounters
In Conversation
45 minutes
Our Curator, Collection & Research, Joanna Gilmour, has thrown caution to the wind and suggested she play a game of chance.
Down the rabbit hole
In Conversation
48 minutes
Come on a journey behind the scenes, into the woods and reaching for the stars with Penny Grist Curator, Exhibitions.
National Portrait Galleries In Conversation
Capturing a global mood
65 minutes
The power of the photograph and how the exhibitions Hold Still/Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize reflect identity and our shared human experiences at this unique point in history.
There and back again
In conversation
46 minutes
Louise Cummins, our Travelling Exhibitions Coordinator regales you with tales of journeys across the nation; from moving movie stars to Bathurst to baring all in Broken Hill.