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Dr Christopher Chapman describes the experimental exhibition Portraits + Architecture
Artist Tessa Jones recalls creating her portrait of Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock singer and music producer, Ross Wilson.
The portrait of Ian Roberts by Ross Watson.
Christopher Chapman examines the battle of glamour vs. grunge which played out in the fashion and advertising of the 1990s.
Grace Carroll discusses the portrait of the late-eighteenth century gentleman pickpocket George Barrington.
Penelope Grist spends some quality time with the Portrait Gallery’s summer collection exhibition, Eye to Eye.
The exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus offers various interpretations of sporting men and women by five Australian photographers.
Henry Mundy's portraits flesh out notions of propriety and good taste in a convict colony.
Bringing eminent scientist Frank Fenner and artist Jude Rae together for the National Portrait Gallery commission was like matchmaking.
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
The exhibition Aussies all features the ecclectic portrait photography of Rennie Ellis which captures Australian life during the 70s and 80s.
National Portrait Gallery director Karen Quinlan AM nominates her quintet of favourites from the collection, with early twentieth-century ‘selfies’ filling the roster.
Gareth Knapman explores the politics and opportunism behind the portraits of Tasmania’s Black War.
Sarah Engledow previews the beguiling summer exhibition, Idle hours.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.