Lauren Dalla examines the life of Australian painter Roy de Maistre and his portrait by Jean Shepeard.
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
National Photographic Portrait Prize judge Christopher Chapman connects this year’s entries to iconic contemporary american photographers.
Artist David M Thomas lists some of the ideas and influences behind his video portraits.
Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.
Lecture by Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, given at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra on 28 April 2006.
Dr Christopher Chapman describes the experimental exhibition Portraits + Architecture
Magda Keaney speaks with Lewis Morley about his photographic career and the major retrospective of his work on display at the NPG.
Penelope Grist speaks to Bill Henson and Simone Young to discover the origins of the artist’s stunning photographic triptych.
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
Joanna Gilmour on the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2013.
Robert Hannaford has completed around 400 portraits over the span of his career.
Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.
Alistair McGhie reminisces about three Australian rugby greats commissioned for the Portrait Gallery collection by Patrick Corrigan AM.
Jaynie Anderson reflects on her experience as sitter for Reshid Bey’s 1962 portrait.
