Search / forget

Carla Zampatti

Recorded 2019

Ivan Gaal

I know David, whom I used to work with 40 years ago, when he got his HIV/AIDS.

Forget me not

Bill

Jimmy and Jane Barnes, 2020

Purchased 2021

William Barak

The play’s the thing

Penelope Grist charts an immersive path through Stuart Spence’s photography.

Activating the space

Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.

The intellectual larrikin

Barrie Cassidy pays textured tribute to the inimitable Bob Hawke.

Agnes enigma

Karen Quinlan considers the case of Agnes Goodsir, whose low profile in Australia belies her overseas acclaim.

Flash mob

Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.

Christmas Island

This is my last Trumbology before, in a little more than a week from now, I pass to my successor Karen Quinlan the precious baton of the Directorship of the National Portrait Gallery.

20/20 launch speech

Dr Helen Nugent AO, Chairman, National Portrait Gallery at the opening of 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.

Material culture

The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.

The art of peace

Sean Davey captures the portrait of a nation renewed.

Flesh, figure and rock

Aimee Board traces Judy Cassab’s path to the Australian outback, arriving at the junction of inspiration and abstraction.