Until Sun 23 May
National Portrait Gallery · Parkes
three bold contemporary artists rewriting old female archetypes
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Age-old archetypes that have long confined women collide in this exhibition of contemporary artists Del Kathryn Barton, Emily Hunt and Jess Johnson. Exhibiting together for the first time and presenting works that span painting, sculpture, drawings, ceramics, and video work, Barton, Hunt and Johnson create a cacophony of disruptive female energy in Maiden Mother Crone.
Featuring new works by each artist, the exhibition shows us how portraiture can be a vessel for contradiction and transformation, and how the bright and the beautiful can coexist with the dark and distasteful.
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When is Maiden Mother Crone?
From Mon 16 Nov 2026, until Sun 23 May.
Where is it?
National Portrait Gallery, Parkes, ACT.
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