The New Zealand Portrait Gallery is seeking a dynamic and motivated Audience Engagement Coordinator to contribute to our mission of enhancing appreciation for portraiture through engaging communications, events, and programmes.
From the early 1930s Toss Woollaston’s approach to portrait painting was radical, resulting in what Jill Trevelyan calls “New Zealand’s first modernist portrait”, Figures from Life, 1936.
THIRD TIME’S THE CHARM: FORMER FINALIST WINS ADAM PORTRAITURE AWARD
50 artworks have been shortlisted for the 2018 Adam Portraiture Award - New Zealand’s premier portrait painting prize - with a first prize of $20,000. The winner will be announced on 28 February.
Strangely Familiar showcases bold, compelling portraits of New Zealand art-world personalities including musicians, poets, writers and artists such as Colin McCahon, Rita Angus.
Artist Julia Holden will bring to life a portrait in Leo Bensemann & Friends using her signature 'body painted' process.
28 SEPTEMBER 2015 Press release from the New Zealand Portrait Gallery ADAM PORTRAITURE AWARD 2016 – Call for Entries! Pick up your brushes and get painting! Entries are now open for the biannua