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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Amy Martin

National Portrait Gallery's latest exhibition set to redefine portraiture

National Portrait Gallery curator Joanna Gilmour and National Gallery of Victoria curator Beckett Rozentals with Patricia Piccinini's work Nest. Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong

When describing the works in the new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, it would be hard to find someone to predict the pair of motorised scooters represented.

It is not a sculpture you expect at a portrait gallery. Still, when you see Nest - the 2006 work from Patricia Piccinni - in Who Are You: Australian Portraiture, it is hard to deny that it is a portrait - albeit one between a mother and baby scooter.

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