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Floral Extravaganza

Serena Bentley talks to In Bloom artists Nathan Beard, Pamela See and Angela Tiatia about their fascination for florals.

Portrait 73

Glynis Traill-Nash explores a new Romance Was Born commission, Emma Kindred looks at Vincent Namatjira, and Rebecca Blake profiles NPPP finalist Gerwyn Davies.

Worth her salt

Jerrold Nathan's portrait of Jessie Street shows the elegant side of a many-faceted lady.

The artist, the scholar and the gentleman

Kwon Hyeeun introduces Korean portraits of Kang Sehwang, and five generations of the Kang family.

Celebrity cutpurse

Grace Carroll discusses the portrait of the late-eighteenth century gentleman pickpocket George Barrington.

How to be a boy

Christopher Chapman profiles Chris Lilley, actor and creator of Angry Boys.

101 photographic portraits

Pat Corrigan's generous gift of 100 photographic portraits by Greg Weight.

Hope for kindness

Sarah Engledow arrives at the junction of fate and hope in Sarah Ball’s poignant Immigrants series.

Every flap, fold and bulge

All in the Family

In 2000, Barbara Blackman donated a portrait of her close friends - poet Judith Wright, her husband Jack McKinney and their daughter Meredith - painted by Charles Blackman.

The importance of being bearded

Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.

Someone to watch over you

Carrie Kibbler looks at how portraiture fits into the Australian Artbank Collection.

Getting a head

Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.

Two painters

Chris Chapman explains how Matthys Gerber bridges the gap between abstraction and portraiture.

Waiting for Godot

'Artist and actors, advancing spasmodically, find their rhythm together' writes Sarah Engledow.

Australia’s great internationalists

Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.