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Artist Tessa Jones recalls creating her portrait of Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock singer and music producer, Ross Wilson.
Emma Kindred looks at the career of Joan Ross, whose work subverts colonial imagery and its legacy with the clash of fluorescent yellow.
The portrait of Ian Roberts by Ross Watson.
Dr Christopher Chapman describes the experimental exhibition Portraits + Architecture
NPPP judge Robert Cook provides irreverent insight into this year’s fare, and having to be a bit judgemental.
Rebecca Ray reflects on Robert Fielding’s Mayatjara series, honouring songlines and intergenerational knowedge.
Australia's major abstract painter Yvonne Audette discusses her portrait of sculptor Robert Kippel.
Robert Hannaford has completed around 400 portraits over the span of his career.
Magda Keaney talks with Bill Leak about his bold new portrait of Robert Hughes in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
Robert Oatley's continuing benefaction has helped the National Portrait Gallery acquire works that add another layer to the story of Captain Cook.
Robert Oatley talks about the repatriation of the John Webber portrait of Captain James Cook.
The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.
Drawn from the Gallery's collection, the exhibition Face the Music explores the remarkable talents and achievements of Australian musicians, composers, conductors and celebrities associated with the music industry.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.