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Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.
Dr Sarah Engledow traces the significant links between Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo and Evelyn Chapman through their portraits.
Krysia Kitch celebrates Oodgeroo Noonuccal.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
Jenny Gall delves into Starstruck to celebrate some of Australian cinema’s iconic women.
Joanna Gilmour reflects on 25 years of collecting at the National Portrait Gallery.
Christopher Chapman takes a trip through the doors of perception, arriving at the junction of surrealism and psychoanalysis.
Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.
Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.
Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.
Jennifer Higgie reveals how Alice Neel reinvigorated 20th century portraiture with her honest and perceptive depictions of the human experience.
Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.
Joanna Gilmour explores the fact and fictions surrounding the legendary life of Irish-born dancer Lola Montez.
Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.