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Portrait 23

March - May 2007

This issue of Portrait Magazine features the Reveries: On Photography and Mortality exhibition, Peter Cosgrove, Martin Sharp, Terence Tao and more.

[Self-portrait], 1996
[Self-portrait], 1996
[Self-portrait], 1996

Reveries

by Helen Ennis

The exhibition Reveries: Photography and mortality is a powerful display which brings together images that depict the last phase of people's lives.
General Cosgrove, Dili, East Timor 1999
General Cosgrove, Dili, East Timor 1999
General Cosgrove, Dili, East Timor 1999

On active service

by Sam Bowker

The National Portrait Gallery has acquired an evocative depiction of soldier Peter Cosgrove by the Victorian-based painter, printmaker and sculptor Rick Amor.
Martin Sharp
Martin Sharp
Martin Sharp

Oz and beyond

by Diana Warnes

Martin Sharp fulfils the Pop art idiom of merging art and life.
L. Gordon Darling AC CMG
L. Gordon Darling AC CMG
L. Gordon Darling AC CMG

Portrait of a patron

by Dr Sarah Engledow

A new painting by Jiawei Shen captures the vision and resolve of the Gallery's founder, L. Gordon Darling AC CMG.
Portrait of a Manchu Noblewoman, 18th-19th C.
Portrait of a Manchu Noblewoman, 18th-19th C.
Portrait of a Manchu Noblewoman, 18th-19th C.

Facing East

An exhibition at the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington DC showcases the art of portraiture in Asia over two thousand years.
Professor Terence Tao
Professor Terence Tao
Professor Terence Tao

Prime number

by Diana Warnes

Diana Warnes discusses the portrait of the Australian mathematician Terence Tao.
Steven Bishop, performer by Nathalie Latham
Steven Bishop, performer by Nathalie Latham
Steven Bishop, performer by Nathalie Latham

Here and there

by Geoffrey Batchen

Nathalie Latham's exhibition Australia's Creative Diaspora explores Australians, in the arts, who live and work internationally.
Bee Miles
Bee Miles
Bee Miles

Good, bad and the ugly

by Michael Desmond

Michael Desmond explores what makes a portrait subject significant.

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Portrait 24

June - August 2007

This issue of Portrait Magazine features Robert Hannaford, Walter Lindrum, John Brack, judicial portraits, Vincent Lingiari and more.

Portrait 22

December 2006 - February 2007

This issue of Portrait Magazine features Frank Packer, unconventional portraits of Prime Ministers, Glenn McGrath, Sam Haskins, Steve Irwin and more.
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