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The oil portrait of Sir Frank Packer KBE by Judy Cassab was gifted to the National Portrait Gallery in 2006.
The National Portrait Gallery is pleased to announce its winter exhibition is So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history. It will open to the public from 29 June 2018.
Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
We encourage you to look, to feel, to think, to question and most importantly, to identify and connect.
Ten women artists explore the possibilities of portraiture as a contemporary art form; and reinterpret and reimagine Australian history in the Portrait Gallery’s new exhibition So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history.
Shea Kirk’s portrait of friend and fellow-artist Emma Armstrong-Porter has won the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Johanna McMahon revels in history and mystery in pursuit of a suite of unknown portrait subjects.
Andrew Sayers outlines the highlights of the National Portrait Gallery's display of portrait sculpture.
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
Joanna Gilmour examines the prolific output of Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, and discovers the risk of taking a portrait at face value.
To celebrate his family bicentenary, Malcolm Robertson looks at the portraiture legacy left by his ancestors.
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Christopher Chapman delights in the intimacy of Robert Mapplethorpe's photography
Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.
Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.