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Dr Christopher Chapman NPG Curator of Inner Worlds explains the development of an exhibition that spans from Surrealism to contemporary art.
Christopher Chapman absorbs the gentle touch of Don Bachardy’s portraiture.
Angus Trumble salutes the glorious portraiture of Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.
Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.
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).
Dr Helen Nugent AO, Chairman, National Portrait Gallery at the opening of 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
Inner Worlds evokes a broad view of psychology as a discipline. However, the specific interests of the practitioners whose portraits are included in the exhibition incorporate specialist areas including psychoanalysis.