Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be
John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.
Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.
Dr. Sarah Engledow tells the story of Australia's first Federal statistician, Sir George Knibbs.
Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.
Dr. Sarah Engledow explores the context surrounding Charles Blackman's portrait of Judith Wright, Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith.
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).
Penny Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2016 Prize.
The London-born son of an American painter, Augustus Earle ended up in Australia by accident in January 1825.
Jane Raffan feasts on modernity’s entrée in the Belle Époque theatre of the demimonde.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discovers the amazing life of Ms. Hilda Spong, little remembered star of the stage, who was captured in a portrait by Tom Roberts.
Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.
