The Glossy 2 exhibition highlights the integral role magazine photography plays in illustrating and shaping our contemporary culture.
Joanna Gilmore delights in the affecting drawings of Mathew Lynn.
Lecture by Sandy Nairne, Director, National Portrait Gallery, London, given at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra on 28 April 2006.
Jennifer Coombes explores the lush images of Picnic at Hanging Rock, featuring Anne-Louise Lambert’s Miranda, the face of the film.
Sarah Engledow describes the fall-out once Brett Whiteley stuck Patrick White’s list of his loves and hates onto his great portrait of the writer.
Penelope Grist speaks to Robert McFarlane about shooting for the stars.
Andrew Sayers asks whether a portrait can truly be the examination of a life.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Christopher Chapman considers photographer Rozalind Drummond's portrait of author Nam Le.
The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.
Diana O’Neil samples the tartan treats on offer in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Portraits of philanthropists in the collection honour their contributions to Australia and acknowledge their support of the National Portrait Gallery.
Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.
