David Walsh

, 2010

Deborah Hill talks figures with character, as the National Portrait Gallery touring exhibitions program welcomes its millionth visitor.

How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.

Bare: Degrees of undress celebrates the candid, contrived, natural, sexy, ironic, beautiful, and fascinating in Australian portraiture that shows a bit of skin.