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Unbuttoning uniforms
Magazine article by Sharon Peoples, 2017
Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.
Portrait 56
Autumn 2017
Magazine
Browse the history of the National Photographic Portrait Prize, Cayce Zavaglia's embroidered portraiture, and modern wedding photography!
Portrait 32
June - August 2009
Magazine
This issue features Vanity Fair, Nancy Bird Walton, William Barak, Sidney Kidman, Benjamin Duterrau's portraits of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania, and more.
Portrait 63
Winter 2019
Magazine
Rod McNicol's method and motivation, 19th century Indigenous peoples, Barrie Cassidy on Bob Hawke, five generations of the Kang family from Korea and more.
Virtual lives
Magazine article by Gillian Raymond, 2007
A brief introduction to the Weird, Wired World of Internet Portraiture.
Black and white history
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2009
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
kith and kin
Magazine article by Ellie Buttrose, 2024
Ellie Buttrose reveals the web of connection behind Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore’s kith and kin, which won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale 2024.
Expect the unexpected
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2019
Joanna Gilmour revels in accidental artist Charles Rodius’ nineteenth century renderings of Indigenous peoples.
Observation point
Magazine article by Brenda L Croft, 2022
I have known Dr Aunty Matilda House, Ngambri Elder, Traditional Custodian and Cultural Knowledge Holder, since I was a child.
Ready , set... shoot
Magazine article by Christine Clark, 2006
The exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus offers various interpretations of sporting men and women by five Australian photographers.
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.
A bond of friendship
Magazine article by Yvonne Audette AM, 2005
Australia's major abstract painter Yvonne Audette discusses her portrait of sculptor Robert Kippel.
In the galleries
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2009
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Stillness in movement
Magazine article by Tara James, 2024
Tara James shares the joy of dance and its power to connect in the National Portrait Gallery’s touring exhibition Dancer.
All that fall
Magazine article by Raimond Gaita, 2015
Raimond Gaita comments on war and truth in the context of the First World War.
Imagination
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2013
Dr Sarah Engledow tells the story of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee portrait by Australian artist Ralph Heimans.