Michael Desmond discusses Fred Williams' portraits of friends, artist Clifton Pugh, David Aspden and writer Stephen Murray-Smith, and the stylistic connections between his portraits and landscapes.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
Diana Warnes explores the lives of Hal and Katherine 'Kate' Hattam through their portraits painted by Fred Williams and Clifton Pugh.
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Phil Manning celebrates a century of Brisbane photographic portraiture.
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
Karen Quinlan considers the case of Agnes Goodsir, whose low profile in Australia belies her overseas acclaim.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discovers the amazing life of Ms. Hilda Spong, little remembered star of the stage, who was captured in a portrait by Tom Roberts.
Representations of the inhabitants of the new world expose the complexities of the colonisers' intentions.
The death of a gentlewoman is shrouded in mystery, a well-liked governor finds love after sorrow, and two upright men become entangled in the historical record.
Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, photographers and conservationists, shared a love of photography and exploring wilderness areas of Tasmania.
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
Ensconced and meditative in crisp Tasmania, Joanna Gilmour pays tribute to passionate green advocate and photographer Olegas Truchanas.
A focus on Indigenous-European relationships underpins Facing New Worlds. By Kate Fullagar.
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
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