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Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.
National Photographic Portrait Prize judge Christopher Chapman connects this year’s entries to iconic contemporary american photographers.
Dr Christopher Chapman, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2015 Prize.
This sample of 56 photographs takes in some of the smallest photographs we own and some of the largest, some of the earliest and some of the most recent, as well as multiple photographic processes from daguerreotypes to digital media.
Dr Helen Nugent AO, Chairman, National Portrait Gallery at the opening of 20/20: Celebrating twenty years with twenty new portrait commissions.
English artist Benjamin Duterrau took up the cause of the Indigenous peoples of Tasmania with his detailed and sympathetic renderings.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
The exhibition Australians in Hollywood celebrated the achievements of Australians in the highly competitive American film industry.
I spent much of my summer holiday at D’Omah, on the outskirts of Yogyakarta. Lotus and waterlilies sprout in extraordinary profusion in artful ponds amid palms and deep scarlet ginger flowers.
Dr Anne Sanders previews the works in the new focus exhibition Paul Kelly and The Portraits.
Henry Mundy's portraits flesh out notions of propriety and good taste in a convict colony.
Alison Weir explores the National Portrait Gallery, London and the BP Portrait Award to find what makes a good painted portrait - past and present.
Long after the portraitist became indifferent to her, and died, a beguiling portrait hung over its subject.
Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.
Dr Sarah Engledow puts four gifts to the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection in context.
It may seem an odd thing to do at one’s leisure on a beautiful tropical island, but I spent much of my midwinter break a few weeks ago re-reading Bleak House.