Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.
It’s a matter beyond dispute that in the entire history of Australian art, it’s Noel McKenna who’s painted the liveliest rendition of the head of a Chihuahua.
Michael Desmond charts the path of portraiture, arriving at Julian Opie’s digital realm.
Chris O'Doherty, also known as Reg Mombassa, is best-known for his Mambo imagery but he also paints a lot of self portraits.
Dr Anne Sanders previews the works in the new focus exhibition Paul Kelly and The Portraits.
Gael Newton looks at Australian photography, film and the sixties through the novel lens of Mark Strizic.
Tom Fryer surveys the twentieth-century architectural project, and finds representation and the portrait were integral elements.
Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Representations of the inhabitants of the new world expose the complexities of the colonisers' intentions.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
