In this issue:
- Penelope Grist and Rebecca Ray talk to the artists in Portrait23: Identity about transcending modes of portraiture.
- David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery director, the late Angus Trumble.
- Rebecca Ray reflects on Robert Fielding’s Mayatjara series, honouring songlines and intergenerational knowedge.
- Jennifer Higgie reveals how Alice Neel reinvigorated 20th century portraiture with her honest and perceptive depictions of the human experience.
- Rebecca Ray explores the way identity, belonging and connectedness are translated through materiality in First Nations portraiture.
- Elspeth Pitt chats with Archibald Prize-winning artist Yvette Coppersmith about performance, coincidences and the intersection of art and life.
- Joanna Gilmour delves into a collection display that celebrates the immediacy and potency of drawing as an art form in its own right.
- Artist Vincent Fantauzzo on dyslexia, connection and virtual sittings with Hugh Jackman.
- Bradley Vincent considers Samuel Hodge’s use of the archive to create a queer vernacular of portraiture.
- Joanna Gilmour profiles Violet Teague, whose sophisticated works hid her originality and non-conformity in plain sight.
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