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The Wentworths – Hidden in Plain Sight

Grace Carroll on the gendered world of the Wentworths.

Adam’s Prize Apples

Pamela Gerrish Nunn explores New Zealand’s premium award for portraiture.

Facing the inferno

Tara James speaks to Cam Neville about his portrait series, Firefighters.

NPPP 2011 exhibition essay

Dr Sarah Engledow, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2011 Prize.

The selfie stick

Last week ABC Television came to interview me about selfie sticks. The story was prompted by the announcement that the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has lately prohibited the use of these inside their galleries. So far as I am aware we have not yet encountered the phenomenon, but no doubt we will before too long.

The intellectual larrikin

Barrie Cassidy pays textured tribute to the inimitable Bob Hawke.

Be frank

Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.

Annual Appeal

Citizen Kenne

April Thompson explores an exhibition of Ingvar Kenne’s global portrait project.

Inside outside

Michael Desmond explores the portraiture of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

The real Thea

Long after the portraitist became indifferent to her, and died, a beguiling portrait hung over its subject.

Poets' Portraits

The Portrait Gallery's paintings of two poets, Les Murray and Peter Porter, demonstrate two very different artists' responses to the challenge of representing more than usually sensitive and imaginative men.

Talking heads

In their own words lead researcher Louise Maher on the novel project that lets the Gallery’s portraits speak for themselves.

School portraits

Inga Walton sheds light on a portraiture collection usually only seen by students and teachers at Melbourne University.

Arianne McNaught

An interview with the photographer.

Boyd to man

Christopher Chapman looks at influences and insight in the formative years of Arthur Boyd.