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Harold Cazneaux's portraits of influential Sydneysiders included Margaret Preston and Ethel Turner, both important figures in the development of ideas about Australian identity and culture.
All that fall: Sacrifice, life and loss in the First World War exhibition co-curators Dr Anne Sanders and Dr Christopher Chapman reflect on the evolution of the Gallery’s Anzac Centenary exhibition.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’.
Michael Desmond in conversation with University of Houston professor of philosophy Cynthia Freeland.
Penelope Grist explores the photographic instinct of four-time National Photographic Portrait Prize finalist Julian Kingma.
Corinna Cullen on the symbolic power of pandemic-related imagery over the ages.
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
Joanna Gilmour explores the stories behind the ninteenth-century carte de visites of bushrangers Frank Gardiner and Fred Lowry.
Beyond the centenary of the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli, a number of other notable anniversaries converge this year. Waterloo deserves a little focussed consideration, for in the decades following 1815 numerous Waterloo and Peninsular War veterans came to Australia.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
The best horror stories are real. A flea sinks its proboscis into the skin of a sick black rat, feeds on its blood, and ingests lethally multiplying bacteria.
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.
Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.