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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.
More than eighty treasures from the National Portrait Gallery London will travel to Canberra for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from March 2022.
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.
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.
Penelope Grist speaks to Robert McFarlane about shooting for the stars.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
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.
It may seem an odd thing to do at one’s leisure on a beautiful tropical island, but I spent much of my midwinter break a few weeks ago re-reading Bleak House.
Joanna Gilmour explores the 1790 portrait of William Bligh by Robert Dodd.
An interview with the photographer.
Those of you who are active in social media circles may be aware that through the past week I have unleashed a blitz on Facebook and Instagram in connection with our new winter exhibition Dempsey’s People: A Folio of British Street Portraits, 1824−1844.
Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.