In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
Joanna Gilmour explores the stories behind the ninteenth-century carte de visites of bushrangers Frank Gardiner and Fred Lowry.
Michael Wardell on Chrys Zantis’ Ora.
Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
Andrew Sayers discusses the real cost of George Lambert's Self portrait with gladioli 1922.
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Gareth Knapman explores the politics and opportunism behind the portraits of Tasmania’s Black War.
David Gist steps beyond the public relations veneer of Australia’s official Vietnam War portrait photographs.
Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.
Joanna Gilmour explores the fact and fictions surrounding the legendary life of Irish-born dancer Lola Montez.
Sarah Engledow previews the beguiling summer exhibition, Idle hours.
Judith Pugh reflects on Clifton Pugh's approach to portrait making.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discovers the amazing life of Ms. Hilda Spong, little remembered star of the stage, who was captured in a portrait by Tom Roberts.
Joanna Gilmour examines the prolific output of Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, and discovers the risk of taking a portrait at face value.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
