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Sarah Engledow plays wingman to Leila Jeffreys.
The Glossy 2 exhibition highlights the integral role magazine photography plays in illustrating and shaping our contemporary culture.
Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.
Sarah Engledow on a foundational gallery figure who was quick on the draw.
Christopher Chapman immerses himself in Larry Clark’s field of vision.
How the National Portrait Gallery and its unique collection came to be
Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.
Andrew Sayers outlines the highlights of the National Portrait Gallery's display of portrait sculpture.
Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture.
David Ward writes about the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture on display at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington.
Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.
Anne Sanders and Christopher Chapman bring passionate characterisation to Express Yourself, the Portrait Gallery collection exhibition celebrating iconoclastic Australians.
Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie 1887 by Frederick Woodhouse Snr. is a portrait of James Scobie, well known jockey and eminent horse trainer.
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018