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The National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023 is a touring exhibition from the National Portrait Gallery Join us for a 30-minute tour of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023. The exhibition comprises 47 artworks by finalists selected from a national field of entries, reflecting the distinctive vision of Australia's aspiring and professional portrait photographers and the unique nature of their subjects. This exhibition is supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program, an Australian Government Initiative, aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians. Book your space now! Please Note: There is no need to bring a printed ticket, instead when you arrive your name will be checked off on a registration list. Subscribe to be the first to know about our future events. Please consult our conditions of entry before making your booking. We respect your privacy. Personal information we collect is used only for our internal activities and functions (Libraries Act 1988 (Qld)) and will not be disclosed unless required by law. For more information, please read State Library's privacy statement.

Join us for a special award ceremony and afternoon tea to welcome our two newest black&write! Fellows. At the ceremony you will hear new work from First Nations writers. The black&write! Fellowships offer two Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers each a $15,000 prize, manuscript development with State Library’s black&write! editorial team and a publishing opportunity with Hachette Australia. We are pleased to have Loki Liddle as our MC for this event; Loki is a proud Jabirr Jabirr man, storyteller, poet, and musician. black&write! is supported by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund and the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body. We are proud to work with Hachette Australia as the black&write! Fellowship publishing partner. If you have any questions that aren’t answered here, feel free to contact State Library at Indigenous.Writing@slq.qld.gov.au. Subscribe to be the first to know about our program of events.

Aboriginal stockmen and stockwomen. Free showcase.