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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.
Emma Batchelor uncovers the compelling contemporary dance made in response to the works in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
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.
Christopher Chapman considers photographer Rozalind Drummond's portrait of author Nam Le.
The Portrait Gallery's paintings of two poets, Les Murray and Peter Porter, demonstrate two very different artists' responses to the challenge of representing more than usually sensitive and imaginative men.
Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.
Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.
Michael Desmond reveals the origins of composite portraits and their evolution in the pursuit of the ideal.
Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.
The National Portrait Gallery's acquisition of the portrait of Edward John Eyre by pioneering English photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.
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.