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Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.
Andrew Sayers outlines the highlights of the National Portrait Gallery's display of portrait sculpture.
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.
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.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2018
To celebrate his family bicentenary, Malcolm Robertson looks at the portraiture legacy left by his ancestors.
A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.
Anne O’Hehir on the seductive power of the film still to reflect and shape ourselves and our cultural landscape.
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.
Glynis Jones on the Powerhouse’s retrospective of one of Australia’s foremost fashion reportage and social photographers.