Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Dr Chistopher Chapman discusses the portrait of Australian author Christos Tsiolkas taken by John Tsiavis.
Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
Sarah Engledow reflects on the shared life and writing of Dorothy Porter and Andrea Goldsmith.
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses Quentin Jones's photograph of Australian author Tim Winton.
Djon Mundine OAM brings poignant memory and context to Martin van der Wal’s 1986 portrait photographs of storied Aboriginal artists.
Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.
Roger Neill delves into the life of a lesser-known Australian diva, Frances Alda.
Portraits of philanthropists in the collection honour their contributions to Australia and acknowledge their support of the National Portrait Gallery.
Michelle Fracaro describes Lionel Lindsay's woodcut The Jester (self-portrait).
Joanna Gilmour profiles the life and times of the shutter sisters May and Mina Moore.
Michael Desmond reveals the origins of composite portraits and their evolution in the pursuit of the ideal.
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
Lee Tulloch remembers her great friend NIDA-trained actor turned photographer Stuart Campbell.
Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
