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Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
Johanna McMahon revels in history and mystery in pursuit of a suite of unknown portrait subjects.
Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.
Joanna Gilmour travels through time to explore the National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.
Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters’ true grit.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Joanna Gilmour profiles Violet Teague, whose sophisticated works hid her originality and non-conformity in plain sight.
Penelope Grist reminisces about the halcyon days of a print icon, before the infusion of the internet’s shades of grey.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.