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To Look Within

This exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of self-portraits in Australia, from the colonial period to the present

The art of dress

Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.

The life of Bryant

Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.

Hearts of Darkness

The National Portrait Gallery's acquisition of the portrait of Edward John Eyre by pioneering English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

A.I.

Christopher Chapman ponders our digital identity and selfhood.

Suave

Charles Haddon Chambers the Australian-born playboy playwright settled permanently in London in 1880 but never lost his Australian stance when satirising the English.

Alternative virtue

Joanna Gilmour presents John Kay’s portraits of a more infamous side of Edinburgh.

Cultural kaleidoscope

The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.

Love my way

Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.

Study in scarlet

Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.

Portrait Donors

Nicholas Harding: 28 Portraits

Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.