A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.
Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.
Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.
Andrew Sayers explores the self-portraits created by Australian artist Sidney Nolan.
An interview with the photographer.
Penelope Grist finds photographer Matt Nettheim re-visiting a formative and fulfilling career tram stop.
A collection of thirty-seven caricatures by the artist Joe Greenberg capture the heroes and villians of Australian business in the 1980s.
Malcolm Robertson tells the family history of one of Australia's earliest patrons of the arts, his Scottish born great great great grandfather, William Robertson.
Michelle Fracaro describes Lionel Lindsay's woodcut The Jester (self-portrait).
Sir William Dobell painted the portraits of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones and Sir Hudson Fysh, who did much to promote the image of Australia in this country and abroad.
Diana O’Neil on Noel Counihan’s vivid 1971 portrait of Alan Marshall.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.
Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the larger-than-life Australian performance artist, Leigh Bowery.
Australia's former Cultural Attache to the USA, Ron Ramsey, describes the mood at the opening week of the revitalised American National Portrait Gallery.
The name of Florence Broadhurst, one of Australia’s most significant wallpaper and textile designers, is now firmly cemented in the canon of Australian art and design.
