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Super League
Magazine article by David Sequeira, 2004
The portrait of Ian Roberts by Ross Watson.
Hot Scots
Magazine article by Christopher Baker, 2013
James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Be frank
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2020
Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.
Showing character
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2016
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
Reflections on portraiture
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2004
An extract from the 2004 Nuala O'Flaaherty Memorial Lecture at the Queen Victoria Musuem and Art Gallery in Launceston in which Andrew Sayers reflects on the unique qualities of a portrait gallery.
Mash-up
Magazine article by Penelope Grist, 2022
Penelope Grist delves into an insightful portraiture exhibition that asks: How do three artists see the same sitter?
The long game
Magazine article by Penelope Grist, 2020
Penelope Grist spends some quality time with the Portrait Gallery’s summer collection exhibition, Eye to Eye.
Getting bare
Magazine article by Penelope Grist, 2015
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
In profile
Polly Borland
Magazine article by Oliver Giles, 2023
Polly Borland talks to Oliver Giles about the celebrity portraits that made her name and why she’s now making more abstract art.
The incomparable Beaton
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2005
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).