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.
Three tiny sketches of Dame Nellie Melba in the NPG collection were created by the artist who was to go on to paint the most imposing representation of the singer: Rupert Bunny.
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
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.
