National Portrait Gallery appoints new Director

A curator with an international resume and a passion for colonial Australian art is the National Portrait Gallery's new Director.

Angus Trumble has been appointed to the role after leaving his position at the Yale Centre for British Art in Connecticut, United States.

Trumble was also previously the curator of European art at the Gallery of South Australia.

Originally from Melbourne, Trumble (pictured) says one of the Canberra Gallery's advantages is its flexibility.

He explained "the public, I think, gets a lot from its National Portrait Gallery and will continue to do so.

"I think we will work to improve the national story that we tell through images of its great and good, and ordinary, or otherwise extraordinary, in the past, present and future."

Trumble described the Gallery as a "young, beautiful, small gazelle surrounding by the lumbering noble water buffaloes of the National Gallery and National Library."

He is confident the gallery will be able to secure major travelling exhibitions into the future, adding "the task of putting on exhibitions is getting more and more expensive. The challenges, therefore, are great.

"However, this is such a beautiful building and people are so engaged by it, that I have every confidence that we'll be able to attract major loan shows in the future."

Trumble's appointment is for five years.

For more information go to www.portrait.gov.au/

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