National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

Last call for tickets to our Andrew Sayers Memorial Lecture 📢 At 6.30pm tonight, join journalist Jacqueline Maley as she explores how portraiture is used as a powerful tool to change hearts and minds to influence the way we vote. Attend in-person or relax at home with a virtual ticket. Hurry, in-person tickets are almost gone! 🎟️ Book now - https://bit.ly/41ZvviX

A warm congratulations to our Chair Penny Fowler AM on her appointment to the Board of the National Gallery of Australia. Penny has made an immense contribution to the National Portrait Gallery as Chair for the last three years and prior to that as a board director since 2014. As her term comes to an end, we thank Penny for her incredible dedication and advocacy and know she will make a meaningful impact at the NGA. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g7_hYMV9

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🚨 ONLY 24 HOURS LEFT 🚨 It's your last chance to get your photo submitted for this year's National Photographic Portrait Prize. The portal will close at 9.00am on the DOT tomorrow morning (31 January). 🔗 Submit via the entry portal on our website: https://bit.ly/49T15SH P.S. If you have questions, check out our FAQ (same link above)!

🌏 Share Your Voice: Shaping the Future of Pacific Representation at the National Portrait Gallery Survey 🌏 The Australian Association of Pacific Studies (AAPS), in partnership with the Oceania Working Party of the Australia Dictionary of Biography (OWP) and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (NPG), invites you to participate in the a Survey around shaping the future of Pacific Representation at the National Portrait Gallery. 💡 Why does this matter? This is a unique opportunity to share your experiences, insights, and ideas to ensure Pasifika stories and voices are represented and celebrated in meaningful ways. Your input will guide future projects, exhibitions, and initiatives. 📋 Take the survey now: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dJZCzc6c Help us amplify Pasifika voices and shape how these rich stories are told and preserved. Please share this widely—your voice matters! #PacificVoices #PasifikaDiaspora #AAPS #OWP #NationalPortraitGallery #portraiture #representation Victoria Stead Katerina Teaiwa Rebecca Monson Opeta Alefaio Romitesh Kant Sarouche Razi Professor Jioji Ravulo ‘Alopi Latukefu Glenn Finau Amy Middleby Gillian Raymond Kate Fullagar

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📷 There's just one week until 'Carol Jerrems: Portraits' opens at the Portrait Gallery! Do you recognise the first photograph? 'Vale Street' is the most well-known of Jerrems' works and in 2021 it became the most valuable Australian photograph ever sold at auction. With a near-mythological status in Australian art history, 'Vale Street was made when Jerrems was only 26. It was shot in the backyard of the St Kilda sharehouse where Jerrems’ friend, the photographer Robert Ashton lived, and it features aspiring actress Catriona Brown with two of Jerrems' students from Heidelberg Technical College, Mark Lean and Jon Bourke. The contact sheet (image 2) reveals the unhurried choreography that played out over the course of the shoot, eventually resulting in the infamous shot. We can't wait for you to see 'Vale Street' in the flesh from Saturday 30 November! 🎟️ Tickets are now on sale (with a special $10 ticket for under-30s). Book now: https://bit.ly/4dDKDGx 📷 Image 1: Vale Street, 1975 by Carol Jerrems. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1976 © The Estate of Carol Jerrems Image 2: Contact Sheet (Vale St, one; Mozart ST, one; Ian Macrae), 1975 by Carol Jerrems. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Mrs Joy Jerrems 1981 © The Estate of Carol Jerrems Image 3: Waiting, 1975 by Carol Jerrems. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Purchased 1976 © The Estate of Carol Jerrems

Calling all teachers, students and art-making friends! 📢 Our free workshop with world-renowned artist Atong Atem, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria, is on this Friday from 2.00-3.00pm. Join Atong online and discover the wonders of myth making and portraiture through a series of guided warm-up activities and developmental drawing exercises. This virtual event will give students an opportunity to reimagine their capacity for personal storytelling through art. Whether a water spirit, a saint, an ancestor or an imagined figure, students will consider their own cultures and beliefs as tools for personal and creative storytelling. 🔗 Sound like something you or your class might enjoy? Sign up here for free: https://bit.ly/3NqR8Sm

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