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The National Portrait Gallery is offering a free online class on the art of portraiture from April 28.
Nici Cumpston immerses herself in the collective vision of the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2020.
Joanna Gilmour reveals love’s more intense manifestations in the tale of Lord Kenelm and Venetia Digby.
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.
Sarah Engledow pens a fond farewell to acclaimed science historian Ann Moyal.
Purchased 2020
Gift of Patrick Corrigan AM 2020. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Seventeen of Australia’s thirty prime ministers to date are represented in the contrasting sizes, moods and mediums of these portraits.
When a portrait communicates determination and individuality as boldly as these do, it has the potential to become an iconic image. For the Gallery’s 20th birthday this display brings together a group contemporary photographic portraits of inspiring women and men.
Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters’ true grit.
Joanna Gilmour revels in accidental artist Charles Rodius’ nineteenth century renderings of Indigenous peoples.
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
From 2017 to 2019 the Acquisition Fund was focussed on the commission of a stunning portrait of Rosie Batty by Nikki Toole.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.