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The intellectual larrikin
Magazine article by Barrie Cassidy, 2019
Barrie Cassidy pays textured tribute to the inimitable Bob Hawke.
The art of peace
Magazine article by Sven Knudsen, 2018
Sean Davey captures the portrait of a nation renewed.
Flesh, figure and rock
Magazine article by Aimee Board, 2018
Aimee Board traces Judy Cassab’s path to the Australian outback, arriving at the junction of inspiration and abstraction.
Powerful Indigenous women
Magazine article by June Oscar AO, 2017
June Oscar AO lauds three iconic Aboriginal figures in the Portrait Gallery collection who have inspired and influenced her.
Activating the space
Magazine article by Sandra Phillips, 2020
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
The more things change
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011
National Photographic Portrait Prize curator, Sarah Engledow, finds reward in a difficult task and ultimately uncovers the essence of portraiture.
Agnes enigma
Magazine article by Karen Quinlan AM, 2019
Karen Quinlan considers the case of Agnes Goodsir, whose low profile in Australia belies her overseas acclaim.
Australians in Hollywood
Magazine article by Simon Elliott, 2003
The exhibition Australians in Hollywood celebrated the achievements of Australians in the highly competitive American film industry.
Money and swat
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2007
Andrew Sayers discusses the real cost of George Lambert's Self portrait with gladioli 1922.
An Australian story
Magazine article by The Hon. Dr Kevin Rudd, 2009
In his speech launching the new National Portrait Gallery building on 3 December 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd set the Gallery in a national and historical context.
Beguiling impressions
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2012
Sarah Engledow is seduced by the portraits and the connections between the artists and their subjects in the exhibition Impressions: Painting light and life.
Flash mob
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2019
Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.
Through blue eyes
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
Works by Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan bring the desert, the misty seashore and the hot Monaro plains to exhibition Open Air: Portraits in the landscape.
Listomania
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2013
Sarah Engledow describes the fall-out once Brett Whiteley stuck Patrick White’s list of his loves and hates onto his great portrait of the writer.
Material culture
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2018
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
All the way with K of K
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2016
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.