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Stephen Zagala discusses Richard Avedon’s work from an Australian perspective.
Grace Carroll contemplates the curious case of Christian Waller.
Angus Trumble reveals the complex technical mastery behind a striking recent acquisition, Henry Bone’s enamel portrait of William Manning.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.
Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Anne Sanders imbibes Tony Bilson’s gastronomic revolution.
Joanna Gilmour travels through time to explore the National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
Karen Vickery on Chang the Chinese giant in Australia.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
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.
Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.