Penelope Grist finds philanthropy and fashion underpin the story of Susan Wakil AO.
Marian Anderson, emerging photographer Charles Dennington, piscatorial portraits, and the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou and more.
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.
Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
Esther Erlich’s portrait of Lady McMahon.
James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Alistair McGhie explores the many shades of Angélica Dass’ Humanæ project.
David Solkin ponders the provocations and inspirations of the enigmatic Thomas Gainsborough.
Polly Borland talks to Oliver Giles about the celebrity portraits that made her name and why she’s now making more abstract art.
Alistair McGhie reminisces about three Australian rugby greats commissioned for the Portrait Gallery collection by Patrick Corrigan AM.
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Michael Desmond charts the path of portraiture, arriving at Julian Opie’s digital realm.
Stephen Zagala discusses Richard Avedon’s work from an Australian perspective.
Penelope Grist and Rebecca Ray talk to the artists in Portrait23: Identity about transcending modes of portraiture.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
