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Now and Then
Richard Tognetti
Magazine article, 2025
Spanning 30 years, these portraits capture a life in music. Violinist, conductor and composer Richard Tognetti AO is Artistic Director of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Pin-ups
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2008
Christopher Chapman describes the art and life of Australian artist Richard Larter.
The Avedon effect
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2013
Dr Christopher Chapman explores how we can understand Richard Avedon's photographs.
The existential lens
Magazine article by Stephen Zagala, 2013
Stephen Zagala discusses Richard Avedon’s work from an Australian perspective.
Portrait of the Gallery
Magazine article by Graeme Dix, 2016
A design diary retrospective.
A feast of friends
Magazine article by Richard Ormond, 2015
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Private virtues public lives
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Family affections are preserved in a fine selection of intimate portraits.
123 Faces
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2002
Magda Keaney examines the 123 Faces project by Simon Obarzanek.
Oz and beyond
Magazine article by Diana Warnes, 2007
Martin Sharp fulfils the Pop art idiom of merging art and life.
Michael Kimmelman
Magazine article by Pamela Gray, 2002
Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times and author of Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, presented the National Portrait Gallery Third Anniversary Lecture on 2 March 2002. He was generously brought to Australia by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Qantas.
On a human scale
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2006
The design concepts behind the new National Portrait Gallery building in Canberra.
The essence of you
Magazine article by Lee Tulloch, 2011
Lee Tulloch remembers her great friend NIDA-trained actor turned photographer Stuart Campbell.
Form and reality
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2008
A photographic portrait by Kerry Dundas captures the contemplative mind of visionary painter Godfrey Miller.
Pop goes the preconception
Magazine article by Paul Moorhouse, 2007
A National Portrait Gallery, London exhibition redefines portraiture, shifting the focus towards a new perspective on Pop Art.
An Intimate Portrait of an Australian Artist in 1930
Magazine article by Lauren Dalla, 2003
Lauren Dalla examines the life of Australian painter Roy de Maistre and his portrait by Jean Shepeard.
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.