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I walk the line

Bruce Petty's animated self portrait captures a life's journey compressed into a few minutes.

All in the Family

In 2000, Barbara Blackman donated a portrait of her close friends - poet Judith Wright, her husband Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith - painted by Charles Blackman.

The bright-eyed Mariner

Thousand mile stare

John Elliott talks about his photographic portrait practice, including his iconic image of Slim Dusty arm-in-arm with Dame Edna Everage.

Flesh, figure and rock

Aimee Board traces Judy Cassab’s path to the Australian outback, arriving at the junction of inspiration and abstraction.

Diamond Doll

Karen Vickery delights in a thespian thread of the Australian yarn.

Two painters

Chris Chapman explains how Matthys Gerber bridges the gap between abstraction and portraiture.

NPPP 2016 exhibition essay

Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.

Eating the seasons

Anne Sanders imbibes Tony Bilson’s gastronomic revolution.

Finest quality

Joanna Gilmour explores the life of Chinese-Australian businessman and philanthropist Quong Tart.

Uncommon Australians

Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.

Fugue in Yellow

Roger Benjamin explores the intriguing union of Lina Bryans and Alex Jelinek.

Confessional conversations

Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.

Australia’s great internationalists

Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.

Progressive pictures

Athol Shmith’s photographs contributed to the emergence of a new vision of Australian womanhood.

Queen of cartes

Joanna Gilmour discusses the role of the carte de visite in portraiture’s democratisation, and its harnessing by Victoria, the world’s first media monarch.