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National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman discusses the portraiture of Henri Matisse.
The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
Joanna Gilmour profiles Violet Teague, whose sophisticated works hid her originality and non-conformity in plain sight.
The exhibition Aussies all features the ecclectic portrait photography of Rennie Ellis which captures Australian life during the 70s and 80s.
James Angus discusses his major sculpture commission Geo Face Distributor with Christopher Chapman.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
At just 7.8 x 6.2 cm, the daguerreotype of Thomas Sutcliffe Mort and his wife Theresa is one of the smallest works in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery.
Anne Sanders finds connections in Inner Worlds between Hungarian expatriates and the development of psychoanalysis in Australia.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.
Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.
Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.
An extract from the 2004 Nuala O'Flaaherty Memorial Lecture at the Queen Victoria Musuem and Art Gallery in Launceston in which Andrew Sayers reflects on the unique qualities of a portrait gallery.