Anthony Browell reminisces about meeting Rose Lindsay, the wife of Australian artist Norman Lindsay.
Two lively portrait photographs reflect the agility of their subjects: world champion Australian sportsmen Lionel Rose and Anthony Mundine.
Joanna Gilmour explores photographic depictions of Aboriginal sportsmen including Lionel Rose, Dave Sands, Jerry Jerome and Douglas Nicholls.
Michael Desmond profiles the Australian songwriter and performer Neil Murray and his contribution to Australian music.
The Portrait Gallery's paintings of two poets, Les Murray and Peter Porter, demonstrate two very different artists' responses to the challenge of representing more than usually sensitive and imaginative men.
Michael Desmond discusses Fred Williams' portraits of friends, artist Clifton Pugh, David Aspden and writer Stephen Murray-Smith, and the stylistic connections between his portraits and landscapes.
Dr Sarah Engledow explores the portraits of writers held in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
This issue of Portrait Magazine features portraits by Rick Amor, colonial charicatures, Les Murray, Peter Porter, Helen Garner and more.
This issue features the National Photographic Portrait Prize, Neil Murray, Lee Tulloch on Stuart Campbell, Joseph Banks, Scott Redford and more.
This issue of Portrait Magazine includes William Bligh, Lionel Rose, Richard Larter, Layne Beachley, William Yang and more.
John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.
Bon Scott and Angus Young photographed by Rennie Ellis are part of a display celebrating summer and images of the shirtless male.
Bob Ellis (1942–2016) was a journalist, columnist, screenwriter, film director, playwright, speechwriter and critic.
In February 2003 the National Portrait Gallery Circle of Friends brought Sir Robert Strong to Australia to present a series of lectures entitled The Artists & The Banquet- A History of Dining, which focused on the links between gardens and table decoration from the Renaissance to the Victorian Era.
Diana O’Neil on Noel Counihan’s vivid 1971 portrait of Alan Marshall.
Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times and author of Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, presented the National Portrait Gallery Third Anniversary Lecture on 2 March 2002. He was generously brought to Australia by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Qantas.
Christopher Chapman profiles Chris Lilley, actor and creator of Angry Boys.
Michael Desmond examines the daguerreotype portraits created by American artist Chuck Close.
Deborah Hill talks figures with character, as the National Portrait Gallery touring exhibitions program welcomes its millionth visitor.
James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.
Michael Desmond explores the life of ballerina Irina Baranova through the portrait by Australian artist Jenny Sages.
Jo Gilmour uncovers endearing authenticity in the art of a twice-transported Tasmanian.
Penelope Grist speaks to Bill Henson and Simone Young to discover the origins of the artist’s stunning photographic triptych.
Michael Desmond explores the portraiture of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
Barbara Blackman reflects on her experiences as a life model.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Alison Weir explores the National Portrait Gallery, London and the BP Portrait Award to find what makes a good painted portrait - past and present.
Michelle Fracaro describes Lionel Lindsay's woodcut The Jester (self-portrait).
Joanna Gilmour revels in accidental artist Charles Rodius’ nineteenth century renderings of Indigenous peoples.
Joanna Gilmour profiles the life and times of the shutter sisters May and Mina Moore.
The London-born son of an American painter, Augustus Earle ended up in Australia by accident in January 1825.
Stephen Valambras Graham traverses the intriguing socio-political terrain behind two iconic First Nations portraits of the 1850s.
The world of Thea Proctor was the National Portrait Gallery's second exhibition to follow the life of a single person, following Rarely Everage: The lives of Barry Humphries.
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
The exhibition Aussies all features the ecclectic portrait photography of Rennie Ellis which captures Australian life during the 70s and 80s.
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
Aimee Board ventures within and beyond to consider two remarkable new Gallery acquisitions.
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.
To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).
Works by Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan bring the desert, the misty seashore and the hot Monaro plains to exhibition Open Air: Portraits in the landscape.
Tedi Bills talks to George Gittoes about canvassing conflict.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Anne Sanders celebrates the cinematic union of two pioneering australian women.
