Barry York charts the course from childhood request to autographed celebrity portrait anthology.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
'Artist and actors, advancing spasmodically, find their rhythm together' writes Sarah Engledow.
Jude Rae contemplates the portrait commission.
Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
A focus on Indigenous-European relationships underpins Facing New Worlds. By Kate Fullagar.
Johanna McMahon revels in history and mystery in pursuit of a suite of unknown portrait subjects.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
Frank Hurley's celebrated images document the heroism and minutiae of Australian exploration in Antarctica.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
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).
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
Sarah Engledow describes the fall-out once Brett Whiteley stuck Patrick White’s list of his loves and hates onto his great portrait of the writer.
Judith Pugh reflects on Clifton Pugh's approach to portrait making.
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.
