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Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
Deborah Hill talks figures with character, as the National Portrait Gallery touring exhibitions program welcomes its millionth visitor.
The National Portrait Gallery acquired a beguiling silhouette group portrait by Samuel Metford, an English artist who spent periods of his working life in America.
Select extracts from Mirka Mora's autobiography, Wicked but Virtuous, provide rich accompaniment to recent Gallery acquisitions.
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
Aviation carried women’s roles in society to greater heights – fashion followed suit.
The first collaborative commission has arrived. It's a self portrait, it's ceramic and it's from Hermannsburg.
Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was one of the greatest portrait painters in history.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of one of Melbourne's early socialites, Jessie Eyre Williams.
Angus Trumble treats the gallery’s collection with a dab hand.
Pamela Gerrish Nunn explores New Zealand’s premium award for portraiture.
Sarah Engledow on a foundational gallery figure who was quick on the draw.
Johanna McMahon revels in history and mystery in pursuit of a suite of unknown portrait subjects.
Anne Sanders and Christopher Chapman bring passionate characterisation to Express Yourself, the Portrait Gallery collection exhibition celebrating iconoclastic Australians.
Mark Strizic's work crosses a broad spectrum of photographic fields including urban, industrial, commercial, and architectural photography.