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Country man
Magazine article by Angus Trumble, 2015
Angus Trumble’s tribute to the late Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser.
Depth of Field
Magazine article by Lauren Dalla, 2004
The exhibition Depth of Field displays a selection of portrait photographs that reflect the strength and diversity of Australian achievement.
Love my way
Magazine article by Inga Walton, 2022
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Penn on paper
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2009
Michael Desmond discusses Irving Penn's photographic portrait of Nicole Kidman.
A Captured Moment
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2001
The acquisition of David Moore's archive of portrait photographs for the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
An Intimate Portrait of an Australian Artist in 1930
Magazine article by Lauren Dalla, 2003
Lauren Dalla examines the life of Australian painter Roy de Maistre and his portrait by Jean Shepeard.
Cultural kaleidoscope
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2006
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
Of human clay
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2009
The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.
The right note
Magazine article by Leslie Ureña, 2020
Marian Anderson’s glorious voice thrust her into stardom, and a more reluctant role as American civil rights pioneer.
Recollections of a sinologist sitter
Magazine article by Professor Stephen FitzGerald AO, 2016
Professor Stephen Fitzgerald, Australia’s first Ambassador to China, traces the historical course from sino-australian cultural engagement to a maturing Australian identity.
Hearts of Darkness
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2006
The National Portrait Gallery's acquisition of the portrait of Edward John Eyre by pioneering English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
Moving pictures
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2008
The exhibition California Video at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles demonstrated how video artists expand the boundaries of portraiture.
Progressive pictures
Magazine article by Aimee Board, 2017
Athol Shmith’s photographs contributed to the emergence of a new vision of Australian womanhood.
The activist A-list
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2007
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.
Prima facie
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2019
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Picture this...
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2003
This edited version of a speech by Andrew Sayers examines some of the antecedents of the National Portrait Gallery and set out the ideas behind the modern Gallery and its collection.