Portrait 26

Seduce Amuse Entertain

by Michael Desmond

Michael Desmond profiles a handful of the entrants in first National Photographic Portrait Prize and notes emerging themes and categories.

Painters' paradise

by Andrew Sayers AM

Andrew Sayers feels the warmth in the paintings Matthew Perceval made while the sun shone in southern France.

One and all

by Niamh MacNally

The current exhibition of portraits at the National Gallery of Ireland Print Gallery investigates just how paper-thin ideas of likeness are.

The activist A-list

by Dr Sarah Engledow

Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.

Two painters

by Dr Christopher Chapman

Chris Chapman explains how Matthys Gerber bridges the gap between abstraction and portraiture.

All there in black and white

by Dr Sarah Engledow

The National Portrait Gallery acquired a beguiling silhouette group portrait by Samuel Metford, an English artist who spent periods of his working life in America.

Pop goes the preconception

by Paul Moorhouse

A National Portrait Gallery, London exhibition redefines portraiture, shifting the focus towards a new perspective on Pop Art.

Hall of mirrors

by Naomi Cass

Naomi Cass, Director of the Centre of Contemporary Photography, in conversation with Anne Zahalka.