Sarah Engledow steps up to the footlights and applauds the storyline behind Nicholas Harding's portraits of actor John Bell.
This issue features Claudia Karvan & Jimmy Pozarik, Agus Suwage & Contemporary Portraiture from Asia, Fred Williams, Zhong Chen, John Bell, The French Antipodes and more.
Dr Christopher Chapman discusses the portrait of Australian composer Paul Grabowsky by photographer Martin Philbey.
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Lauren Dalla examines the life of Australian painter Roy de Maistre and his portrait by Jean Shepeard.
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.
Elspeth Pitt talks to multidisciplinary artist Nell about ghosts, artistic lineages and hybrid art forms.
Bon Scott and Angus Young photographed by Rennie Ellis are part of a display celebrating summer and images of the shirtless male.
Lee Tulloch remembers her great friend NIDA-trained actor turned photographer Stuart Campbell.
Traudi Allen discovers sensitivity, humour and fine draughtsmanship in the portraiture of John Perceval.
The world of Thea Proctor was the National Portrait Gallery's second exhibition to follow the life of a single person, following Rarely Everage: The lives of Barry Humphries.
National Photographic Portrait Prize curator, Sarah Engledow, finds reward in a difficult task and ultimately uncovers the essence of portraiture.
Grace Carroll contemplates the curious case of Christian Waller.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
In the exhibition William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa at the National Gallery of Australia, the artist marries Gogol's Tsarist Russia, with that of Stalin and the damaging history of his homeland, South Africa.
