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Jude Rae’s high reputation rests on her austere, cerebral still lifes of gas canisters, electric jugs and jars, which she groups and rearranges for paintings that catch their difficult curves and reflections. Her self-portrait’s likewise thoughtfully composed.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
Tom Fryer surveys the twentieth-century architectural project, and finds representation and the portrait were integral elements.
Ensconced and meditative in crisp Tasmania, Joanna Gilmour pays tribute to passionate green advocate and photographer Olegas Truchanas.
To celebrate the new exhibition Australian Love Stories, renowned Australian glass artist Harriet Schwarzrock has been commissioned to make a large-scale installation reflecting on the role the heart plays as our emotional centre.
Vanity Fair Editor David Friend describes how the rebirth of the magazine sated our desire for access into the lives of celebrities and set the standard for the new era of portrait photography.
I like talking about Drendel’s pictures as if they expressed dreams of my own.
Carrie Kibbler looks at how portraiture fits into the Australian Artbank Collection.
The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.
Natural light and human proportions – the design by Johnson Pilton Walker
Last Sunday I had the privilege of appearing at the Canberra Writers’ Festival in conversation with Julia Baird. The subject of our session was Julia’s recent biography, Victoria the Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman who Ruled an Empire.
Just in time for Christmas, Angus reflects on the most special present he has ever received.
Curator Michael Desmond introduces the exhibition Truth and Likeness, an investigation of the importance of likeness to portraiture.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.
Michael Wardell’s personal insight into Jacques van der Merwe’s New Arrivals.
Jon Muir, adventurer and Portrait Gallery Collection subject, really knows about isolation.