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Hugh 2015, by Warwick Baker

Warwick Baker

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The photographs in Tough and tender by Warwick Baker reveal intimate connections and moments of closeness.

Pat Painting No 1

Richard and Pat

Art, love, absurdity and exuberance

Partners in sparkle

Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955 by Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon People media information

Archived media releases 2013

Press releases and images downloads for media.

Richard Walley

Richard Walley OAM honoured in new Portrait Gallery commission

2 September 2015

Archived media releases 2015

A new commissioned portrait funded by the Gallery’s Foundation will be launched at Murdoch University in Perth tonight, Wednesday 2 September.

Marian Anderson, contralto, New York, June 30, 1955 by Richard Avedon

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Richard Avedon People

Richard Avedon People media information

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Richard Avedon

Learning resource archive

A companion to our 2013 exhibition Richard Avedon People. This resource ties in with the Australian Curriculum and is designed primarily for upper secondary school teachers of Visual Arts, English, History and Theory of Knowledge.

Blek Bala MJ, 2017

by Timothy Hillier

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Finalist, DPA 2017
Single channel HD digital video

Richard Tognetti #1510

Richard Tognetti #1510, 2018

by Louise Hearman

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Commissioned with funds provided by Peter Weiss AO 2018

Richard Tognetti #1510

Lost Love, Yiyi is tired, and Waiting on the bridge, 2014

by Tiyan Melissa Kilie Baker

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Winner, MDPA 2014

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Richard Walley OAM, by Julie Dowling

Richard Walley OAM honoured in new Portrait Gallery commission

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2017

Portrait Donors

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1998

Portrait Donors

Lucy Escott

An international troupe of two

It's Complicated

Office romance

Spencer 2016, by Warwick Baker

Tough & Tender Media Release

Archived media releases 2016

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.

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2008

Portrait Donors

Portrait of TERROIR, 2009 by Brett Boardman

TERROIR

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TERROIR directors Gerard Reinmuth, Scott Balmforth and Richard Blythe believe that the practice of architecture is the production of knowledge.

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