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Penelope Grist explores the photographic instinct of four-time National Photographic Portrait Prize finalist Julian Kingma.
Joanna Gilmour delves into a collection display that celebrates the immediacy and potency of drawing as an art form in its own right.
Joanna Gilmour reflects on merging collections and challenging traditional assumptions around portraiture in WHO ARE YOU.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.
Tony Curran ponders whether our phones can change the course of painting.
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
Australian artist Shaun Gladwell discusses his portraits of champion athletes.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
Harold Cazneaux's portraits of influential Sydneysiders included Margaret Preston and Ethel Turner, both important figures in the development of ideas about Australian identity and culture.
Joanna Gilmour explores the stories behind the ninteenth-century carte de visites of bushrangers Frank Gardiner and Fred Lowry.
A new painting by Jiawei Shen captures the vision and resolve of the Gallery's founder, L. Gordon Darling AC CMG.
The exhibition Depth of Field displays a selection of portrait photographs that reflect the strength and diversity of Australian achievement.