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Cartoonist Michael Leunig's insights into the human condition and current affairs have become famous Australia-wide.
Michael Desmond examines the daguerreotype portraits created by American artist Chuck Close.
Michael Desmond investigates the street art of Shepard Fairey, who was catapulted to fame during the 2008 presidential election with his resonant image of Barack Obama.
Exploring the photographs of Martin Schoeller, Michael Desmond delves into the uneasy pact that exists between celebrity and the camera.
An extensive selection of portraits by John Brack were on display at the National Portrait Gallery in late 2007.
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
George Foxhill's self portraits were the subject of a small focus display at the National Portrait Gallery in 2006.
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.
Bruce Petty's animated self portrait captures a life's journey compressed into a few minutes.
Michael Desmond profiles the Australian songwriter and performer Neil Murray and his contribution to Australian music.
Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Michael Desmond discusses Irving Penn's photographic portrait of Nicole Kidman.
Michael Desmond explores the life of ballerina Irina Baranova through the portrait by Australian artist Jenny Sages.
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.