An exploration of national identity in the Canadian context drawn from the symposium Face to Face at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2004.
Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.
Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.
David Gist steps beyond the public relations veneer of Australia’s official Vietnam War portrait photographs.
Karen Vickery on Chang the Chinese giant in Australia.
Christopher Chapman takes a trip through the doors of perception, arriving at the junction of surrealism and psychoanalysis.
Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.
Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.
Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.
Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.
Sarah Engledow previews the beguiling summer exhibition, Idle hours.
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
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).
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
Aircraft designer, pilot and entrepreneur, Sir Lawrence Wackett rejoins friends and colleagues on the walls of the National Portrait Gallery.
