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24.01.2022 Missed them by a hair? These miniatures both contain locks of the sitters’ hair (don’t worry, we’re almost sure it was taken willingly) Portraits have long been understood to have a talismanic quality as if they are stand-ins for the person they represent. This supposed power is intensified in the case of portrait miniatures, which are deliberately intimate and tactile.... Designed to be treasured and held close. Often exchanged with the not unrealistic expectation that the subject of the image and its beholder might not see each other again. For instance, when lawyer Gamaliel Butler and his wife Sarah emigrated to Van Diemen’s Land in the early 1820s, they left their six children behind in England. Richard Windeyer, also a lawyer, was still a student in London when his parents and nine siblings left for New South Wales in 1828. Luckily for the Butler and Windeyer families - while evidently sweet (who doesn't like a bundle of hair?) - their farewells were not final. Gamaliel and Sarah’s six children eventually made the journey to Hobart (to live with their 9 additional siblings born in the colony) and Richard Windeyer and his wife, Maria, arrived in Sydney in 1835 with their infant son William Charles. From hair clippings to love tokens, find more oddly sweet expressions of love in the keepsake room of our Australian Love Stories exhibition: https://bit.ly/2LI7B7W * * * [1: Richard Windeyer, c. 1828 by Charles Richard Bone; 2: Gamaliel Butler, c. 1810 by an unknown artist. Both National Portrait Gallery Collection] #PortraitAU #AustralianLoveStories #VisitCanberra #WeAreCBR #CBR

24.01.2022 Have your cake (pudding?) and eat it too, because Norman Lindsay was born #OnThisDay in 1879. Join us from 12:30pm tomorrow, 23 February, for an online birthday celebration! We'll explore the life and world behind this incredible Australian artist, cartoonist, and writer. ... Need more tempting? Here's a sweet fact, The Magic Pudding - Norman Lindsay's Australian children’s classic - has NEVER been out of print! Register for this free session (BYO pudding): https://bit.ly/3jWCClt [Norman Lindsay, 1921 by Harold Cazneaux. Collection: National Portrait Gallery] #PortaitAu #NationalPortraitGallery #HappyBirthday #NormanLindsay #ChildrensAuthor #ChildrensIllustrator #TheMagicPudding #HaroldCazneaux

22.01.2022 (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following post contains images of people who have died.) In a recent virtual collection tour, Wiradjuri/Scottish educator of the Galari peoples, April Phillips said, "when I look at this portrait I feel an incredible immense responsibility to continue to the fight". Charles Perkins was an Indigenous rights campaigner, activist, soccer player and public servant. Although taken on a bus to Tranby Aboriginal Col...lege in Glebe, this portrait is significant as it mirrors Perkins' story as a prominent organiser and participant in the 1966 anti-discrimination 'freedom rides' through country New South Wales. Learn more about this portrait online: https://bit.ly/3eRvuVh [Charles Perkins on bus to Tranby Aboriginal College, Glebe, c. 1964 (printed 2003) by Robert McFarlane, gelatin silver photograph on paper, 30.0 cm x 20.1 cm. Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Robert McFarlane/Copyright Agency, 2020] #PortraitAu #PortraitureComesHome #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #CharlesPerkins #RobertMcFarlane #FreedomRides #IndigenousRightsActivist #IndigenousRights

22.01.2022 Jiawei Shen often juxtaposes contradictory elements in his paintings to indicate his sitter’s history or situation. In this ‘court portrait’ of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, Shen has placed the Princess alongside a column based on the architecture of Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen. Yet, through a wafting sheer curtain, beyond the dissolved tiles, lies the Sydney Opera House designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon. With a sitting time of only three hou...rs, Shen started by taking many photographs of the Princess and only in the last 30-minutes did he put 'pastel' to paper for his initial study. Watch the Portrait Story: https://bit.ly/2ZsVUFZ [1: Portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, 2005; 2-3: Studies for Commissioned Portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, 2005. All by Jiawei Shen. National Portrait Gallery Collection] #PortraitAu #NationalPortraitGallery #JiaweiShen #PrincessMary #WIPWednesday #WorkInProgress #CreativeProcess

20.01.2022 Marian Wright Edelman once said, "You can't be what you can't see." Join us from 12.30 - 1:00pm on Tuesday 17 November for a FREE 30 minute online discussion about queer representation, as we bring you our Virtual Collection Tour: Reflected for SpringOUT. To celebrate SpringOUT, Canberra’s very own pride festival, join in this virtual portrait tour delivered over Zoom, as we look at queer creatives and how their visibility can make them inadvertent mentors. Gather your chosen... family and a cup of tea as our programming for Yes-vember continues! This program is presented as part of the Canberra’s annual Canberra SpringOUT Pride Festival (31 October-29 November 2020) which celebrates Australia’s most LGBTIQ-friendly city and its LGBTIQ community in all its fabulous diversity. Book your free spot through our website and we will email you with instructions on how to connect with us: https://www.portrait.gov.au//virtual-collection-tour-/2148 [Kylie Kwong, 2003 by Simon Griffiths, type C photograph on paper, 76.0 cm x 66.6 cm. Collection: National Portrait Gallery Simon Griffiths] #PortraitAu #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG #PortraitureComesHome #MuseumFromHome #KylieKwong #SimonGriffiths #SpringOUT #VirtualTourTuesdays #LoveIsLove #Yes #Pride

19.01.2022 We LOVED having you all at the gallery last Friday night for our Huxleys party. You all certainly brought the extreme and unapologetic disco vibes! Feel free to tag yourselves and if you'd like to share them please tag @portraitau and our talented performers from the night - The Huxleys (Will Huxley and Garrett Huxley), Jazida Productions, Guy Alias and DJ Charlie Villas! Got serious FOMO? Check out our upcoming events and programs: https://www.portrait.gov.au/calendar/... #PortraitAU #NationalPortraitGallery #AustralianLoveStories #VisitCanberra #WeAreCBR #CBR

17.01.2022 We we're thrilled to have David Williamson at the gallery this week for the launch of our new audio tour app, In their own words. From the outset, David aimed to ‘get our own stories on stage, spoken in our own accents, reflecting our own life’. His plays, many of which he has scripted for films, include The Department, The Club, Travelling North, The Perfectionist, Emerald City, Brilliant Lies, Dead White Males, Heretic and Up for Grabs.... His film credits include Stork (1971), Petersen (1974), Gallipoli (1980), The Year of Living Dangerously (1981), Phar Lap (1982) and On the Beach (2000). Critics have carped about his works as they have accreted, but for decades he has been Australia’s best-known and most prolific playwright and he is unlikely to be eclipsed as the writer of many of the top box-office performers in Australian theatre history. Photographer Gordon Glenn took this portrait of David in January 1974 to accompany an interview for the film magazine, Cinema Papers: https://bit.ly/342bXgo We also filmed a Portrait Story interview with David while he was here. Coming soon! [1: David Williamson, 1974 by Gordon Glenn Gordon Glenn; 2: David Williamson, late 1970s by Louis Kahan Louis Kahan/Copyright Agency, 2020; 3: David Williamson, 2012 by Dave Tacon Dave Tacon/Copyright Agency, 2020; 4: The Vivisector - David Williamson, 2017 by Danelle Bergstrom Danelle Bergstrom. All National Portrait Gallery Collection] #PortraitAu #PortraitureComesHome #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG #DavidWilliamson #Playwright #GordonGlenn #LouisKahan #DaveTacon #DanelleBergstrom #AustralianTheatre #AustralianFilm

17.01.2022 Join us at the gallery this Sunday, 23 May for an afternoon of poetry, participation and love. Listen to sweet words from Australian Poetry Slam Champion CJ Bowerbird and some of Canberra’s best spoken-word artists, Eleanor Malbon and Audrey McCormick, and take part in a crowd sourced poem! Start warming up your vocals - this will be an open mic event where you can share your own words on love in all its forms.... Learn more about this free event: https://bit.ly/3f8aolQ #PortraitAU #NationalPortraitGallery

14.01.2022 We were saddened by the recent passing of one of Australia's best-known political journalists, Mungo MacCallum. MacCallum emerged as one of the most colourful and astute members of the Canberra press gallery during the tumultuous years of the Gorton, Whitlam and Fraser governments. He wrote prolifically, contributing to most major Australian political papers, journals and platforms including The National Review, The National Times, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, T...he Monthly and The Drum. He also devised a weekly cryptic crossword for The Saturday Paper. The caption on this drawing by Frank Hinder references the regular cricket matches played between members of the press gallery and politicians during the 1970s and 1980s. As a rule, they both fielded very ordinary cricket sides. Discover the portrait online: https://bit.ly/37UTpQm [Mungo MacCallum, press gallery cricket, 1973 by Frank Hinder. Collection: National Portrait Gallery Enid Hawkins (nee Hinder)] #PortraitAu #PortraitureComesHome #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG #MungoMacCallum #FrankHinder #AusPol

11.01.2022 She fought for her rights and rights of her community, and continues to do so. Always Was, Always Will Be. Banduk Marika is a printmaker, community leader and arts administrator. Here we see her twice in the same portrait by Anne Zahalka. On the left, as the award-winning artist and on the right, striding powerfully, as April Phillips described in our recent virtual program, like a "total boss" After studying at the National Art School in Sydney, Marika returned to Yirrkala... in 1988 where she managed the Buku-Larrnggay Arts Centre while continuing work as an artist and educator. To date, Marika has served on boards for organisations including the Australia Council, the National Gallery of Australia and Bangarra Dance Theatre; and for more than two decades has been involved in education, conservation and advocacy work as a member of bodies such as the Northern Land Council and Landcare. In 1992, she established the Mawalan 1 Gamarrwa Nuwul Association for the management of Rirratjingu lands. Learn more about this portrait on our website: https://bit.ly/3kp1iC0 [Banduk Marika, 1990 by Anne Zahalka, direct positive colour photograph, 70.2 cm x 69.7 cm. Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Anne Zahalka/Copyright Agency, 2020] #PortraitAu #PortraitureComesHome #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #BandukMarika #AnneZahalka

11.01.2022 [Update on Gallery visitor numbers] Good news folks: from noon today, Friday 19 June, we are officially able to have up to 300 visitors at a time! We have been so delighted to be reopen again and are absolutely thrilled to welcome you all back to the National Portrait Gallery, and now we are so excited to see even more of your lovely faces! Some important housekeeping: to visit we require you to pre-book for one of our hourly sessions to make sure you and our staff are safe. ...Head to our website for the latest information, FAQs and to book. See you soon! https://www.portrait.gov.au/content/update/ #PortraitAu #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG #SocialDistancing #WelcomeBack #ArtEveryday #SeeYouSoon #VisitCanberra #WeAreCBR #ThisCanberranLife #DiscoverCanberra

11.01.2022 Discovering his passion, a 15-year-old, David Moore took this self-portrait in 1942. It was the beginning of what would become a monumental photography career. Moore's international photography career would be launched 10 years later, when the London bureau chief of Life magazine leafed through his portfolio of Redfern and Surry Hills slums and suggested that Life.com and TIME could use him as an informal portrait photographer.... Learn more about this remarkable Australian photographer: https://bit.ly/3rYbO7i [David Moore, Corio, Victoria, 1942 by David Moore. Collection: National Portrait Gallery] #PortraitAu #SelfieSunday #DavidMoore #SelfPortrait #NationalPortraitGallery

11.01.2022 Couples who *hang* together, stay together! Installing Harriet Schwarzrock's neon glass hearts in the gallery was a real team effort. Watch the team, including Harriet and her partner in life and glass artistry, Matthew Curtis, bring the work to life. ... Now on display, 'spaces between movement and stillness' will light the entrance to our upcoming exhibition Australian Love Stories. Australian Love Stories opens on 20 March 2021 at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra. Book your ticket: https://bit.ly/2LI7B7W #PortraitAu #AustralianLoveStories Visit Canberra We Are CBR

10.01.2022 With his carefully composed and thought-provoking works, Peter Brew-Bevan Photographer is a leading Australian portrait and fashion photographer. Born in Adelaide, he started taking photographs while studying painting at the South Australian School of Art and Design. Today his work has been widely published in a range of Australian and International publications.... His works in the National Portrait Gallery's collection include portraits of prominent Australian actors, designers, creative directors and politicians. With your support, our contemporary photography fund will bring these stunning portraits of Turia Pitt, Leisel Jones and Ellie Cole into the collection. Find out more about our 2021 annual appeal and donate today: https://bit.ly/3oUvyZr * * * [1: Ellie Cole, 2016; 2: Leisel Jones, 2015; 3: Turia Pitt, 2017; 4: Wesley Enoch and David McAllister, 2020; 5: Julia Gillard, 2013; 6: George Gregan, 1999; 7: Rachel Ward and Bryan Brown, 2006; 8: Naomi Watts, 2003; 9: The Dance - David McAllister, 2016. All by Peter Brew-Bevan.

09.01.2022 Not all successful relationships get off to a good start. In fact, it was quite the opposite for comedy duo Jane Turner and Gina Riley, who were both seventeen when they met in a community theatre group. In the late 1980s, they were members of the ensemble that helped create the comedy sketch program ‘Fast Forward’. In the early 1990s they collaborated with their friend Magda Szubanski in the production of their own series, ‘Big Girls Blouse’, in which the characters of Kath ...and Kim were introduced. Along with Magda's unforgettable Sharon Strzelecki, Kath Day-Knight and Kim Craig were reprised for the muchloved ‘Kath & Kim’, which premiered on ABC television in 2002. The show brought phrases including Noice, different, unusual and Look at moy, look at moy! into common usage, and eventually ran to four seasons. From inauspicious beginnings, Jane and Gina formed one of the country’s most-admired creative partnerships and two of its most enduring characters. Discover more unforgettable creative duos in our Australian Love Stories exhibition: https://bit.ly/2LI7B7W [Kath & Kim, c. 2011 by John Tsiavis. Courtesy of the artist John Tsiavis] #PortraitAU #AustralianLoveStories #VisitCanberra #WeAreCBR #CBR

07.01.2022 Give your furry loved ones an extra cuddle, walk or tummy-rub, because today is #LoveYourPetDay! Just like the family dog who snuck into the heart of the parent who swore they didn't want one, a few loyal companions have crawled their way into our upcoming Australian Love Stories exhibition. Here's a sneak-peak...... Australian Love Stories opens on 20 March at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra: https://bit.ly/2LI7B7W * * * [1: Margel and Tarquin, Canberra, c. 1945 by Frank Hinder. Enid Hawkins (nee Hinder); 2: Patrick White and Manoly Lascaris, 1987 by Max Dupain Max Dupain/Copyright Agency, 2021; 3: An evening at Yarra Cottage, Port Stephens, 1857 by Maria Brownrigg. All National Portrait Gallery collection.] #PortraitAu #AustralianLoveStories #NationalPortraitGallery #PetsInArt #DogsInArt #CatsInArt #MansBestFriend #LoyalCompanion #BestFriends #VisitCanberra #WeAreCBR #CBR

06.01.2022 As a convent schoolgirl growing up in New Zealand, Ruth Park AM she was encouraged by her headmistress to become penpals with the Australian D'Arcy Niland. Having corresponded with Niland for some time, she came to Australia in 1942 to marry him and continue her career as a journalist. The couple travelled through outback Australia working in a variety of manual jobs which became material for a number of novels, but they eventually settled in the Sydney (at the time) slum are...a of Surry Hills. Slum-life in Sydney became a reoccurring theme in Ruth's writing, including in her best-known works, The Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange. She went on to pen more than fifty books for adults and children, including the Muddle Headed Wombat series, and has won a number of important Australian literary awards. This portrait of Ruth was painted by her daughter, Kilmeny Niland, an illustrator, writer and painter, who provided the drawings for a number of her books. Discover the portrait online: https://bit.ly/2KlPW5g [Ruth Park, 2000 by Kilmeny Niland. Collection: National Portrait Gallery Estate of Kilmeny Niland] #PortraitAu #PortraitureComesHome #NationalPortraitGallery #RuthPark #AustralianAuthor #ChildrensAuthor #KilmenyNiland #BookIllustrator #Portraiture #OnThisDay

03.01.2022 "It basically changed [my life] completely." Prior to winning the National Photographic Portrait Prize in 2013, Janelle Low's photography career was just starting. Winning the prize significantly boosted her profile as a photographic artist and educator. When we spoke to her some time later, she reflected on her love of portraiture and how this experience now serves as a reminder for her to keep creating new work.... "I love portraiture - and I like to capture a person in a moment in time and I like that portrait have a real sense of that person and our interaction together." Entries for Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize close at midnight (AEDT) 2 March 2021. Enter now: https://bit.ly/2fWZeSl #PortraitAu #LivingMemoryNPPP #NationalPhotographicPortraitPrize #PortraitPhotography #PhotoPrize

03.01.2022 The new @PortraitAu exhibition In Their Own Words brings portraits and oral histories together through a new app/audio-guide. Many of the voices from the artwor...ks that speak to you are taken from the National Library’s Hazel de Berg oral history collection. Visit the National Portrait Gallery and download the app here https://bit.ly/3741ymm Find out more about Hazel de Berg https://bit.ly/3lX93ji :https://bit.ly/3n34Cox

02.01.2022 Lest We Forget Alec Campbell (1899-2002) was Australia's last surviving Anzac, and possibly the last survivor of the entire Gallipoli campaign. Campbell signed up at the age of 16, claiming he was two years older, and landed on Gallipoli in November 1915. He was discharged from a field hospital the following month, having contracted influenza, and later suffered mumps.... Shipped home as medically unfit following the evacuation, he returned to Australia, where he was to father nine children - the last born when he was 69. Campbell never sentimentalised or exaggerated his short stint at Gallipoli, yet he was fated to become a powerful symbol of the famous campaign. When he died at the age of 103, honoured with a State funeral in Hobart, HM Queen Elizabeth II wrote that 'his death marks the passing of the generation which contributed so much to the character, identity and independent standing of the Australian nation.' View the portrait online: https://bit.ly/3lf3kpy [Portrait of Alec Campbell, 2001-04 by Terry Eichler, oil on canvas, 99.0 cm x 147.0 cm. Collection: National Portrait Gallery] #WeRememberThem #LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #ANZAC #ANZACSpirit #PortraitAu #PortraitureComesHome #NationalPortraitGallery #NPG #MuseumFromHome #TerryEichler #AlecCampbell

02.01.2022 In their own words is an audio-guide with a difference. In our new app, we let the portraits of these remarkable Australians speak for themselves. Many of the 2-minute personal stories told by the subjects and the artists, currently available in the app, have been drawn from Hazel de Berg’s extraordinary audio recordings of Australian achievers held in the National Library of Australia's Oral History and Folklore Collection. Download the app from the Apple store: https://ap...ple.co/3mbBKt3 (Coming soon to Android)

01.01.2022 Accepting photographs taken after 23 October 2019, this edition of the National Photographic Portrait Prize incorporates a year like no other: 2020. Accordingly, the title - Living Memory - acknowledges the period's seismic events. At this point, you might be thinking that your entry to the Prize, will need to be themed around this... Well, no - only if you want it to be. The way we see it, any portrait taken during this period will be of this period, regardless of whether or... not it emulates one of the many significant events 2020 brought us. Entries for Living Memory: National Photographic Portrait Prize are open until midnight (AEDT) 2 March 2021. Learn more and apply online: https://bit.ly/2fWZeSl [Hell's Mouth, 2019 by Cam Neville, 2020 National Photographic Portrait Prize Finalist] #LivingMemoryNPPP #NationalPhotographicPortraitPrize #PortraitAu #NationalPortraitGallery #PhotographyCompetition #PhotoComp #Portraiture #AustralianPhotographers