As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
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 writes about the larger-than-life Australian performance artist, Leigh Bowery.
Jaynie Anderson reflects on her experience as sitter for Reshid Bey’s 1962 portrait.
Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.
Athol Shmith’s photographs contributed to the emergence of a new vision of Australian womanhood.
Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.
Lesley Harding, Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne explores Albert Tucker’s experience of World War II, his interests in the intersection between psychology and creativity, and their influence on his portrait making.
Long after the portraitist became indifferent to her, and died, a beguiling portrait hung over its subject.
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
Judith Pugh reflects on Clifton Pugh's approach to portrait making.
Scott Redford discusses his dynamic portrait commission of motorcycling champion and 2008 Young Australian of the Year Casey Stoner.
Dr Christopher Chapman NPG Curator of Inner Worlds explains the development of an exhibition that spans from Surrealism to contemporary art.
Michael Desmond introduces some of the ideas behind the exhibition Present Tense: An imagined grammar of portraiture in the digital age.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
