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Australian Visit

The exhibition will include works of art from the NPG Canberra's permanent collection with some inward loans and aims to highlight the achievements of notable Australians.

First Ladies

First Ladies profiles women who have achieved noteworthy firsts over the past 100 years.

Final frame

Karl James reflects on soldier portraiture during the Great War.

Sideshow Alley

Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.

On the road again

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

Rock star

Jennifer Coombes explores the lush images of Picnic at Hanging Rock, featuring Anne-Louise Lambert’s Miranda, the face of the film. 

Ready , set... shoot

The exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus offers various interpretations of sporting men and women by five Australian photographers.

Anthony Anderton

An interview with the photographer.

Myself and Eye

Magda Keaney speaks with Lewis Morley about his photographic career and the major retrospective of his work on display at the NPG.

Annual Appeal

20 20

Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.

I walk the line

Bruce Petty's animated self portrait captures a life's journey compressed into a few minutes.

In the flesh

An exhibition of humanness in ten themes by Penelope Grist.

Big it up

Former National Portrait Gallery Curator Magda Keaney was a member of the selection panel of the Schwepes Photographic Portrait Prize 2004 at the National Portrait Gallery London.

The story of us

Gallery directors Karen Quinlan and Tony Ellwood talk to Penelope Grist about the NPG and NGV collaborative exhibition, Who Are You: Australian Portraiture.

More than human

Gillian Raymond investigates the history of humanoid robots and asks, is this the future of portraiture?