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Observation point
Magazine article by Tony Albert, 2017
I think the truest representation of someone is a portrait.
The inner voice
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2011
Dr Christopher Chapman, curator of Inner Worlds: Portraits & Psychology looks at Albert Tucker's Heidelberg military hospital portraits.
Around the grounds
Magazine article by Dr Anne Sanders, 2010
Anne Sanders writes about the exhibitions Victoria & Albert: Art & Love on display at the Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace and the retrospective of Sir Thomas Lawrence at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Hot Scots
Magazine article by Christopher Baker, 2013
James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Mrs Cameron and the V&A
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2003
In March 2003 Magda Keaney travelled to London to join the photography section of the Victoria & Albert Museum for three months.
All you can eat
Magazine article by Lauren Dalla, 2003
In February 2003 the National Portrait Gallery Circle of Friends brought Sir Robert Strong to Australia to present a series of lectures entitled The Artists & The Banquet- A History of Dining, which focused on the links between gardens and table decoration from the Renaissance to the Victorian Era.
Mental as everything
Magazine article by Diana Warnes, 2006
Chris O'Doherty, also known as Reg Mombassa, is best-known for his Mambo imagery but he also paints a lot of self portraits.
A self-portrait in focus
Magazine article by Kim Appleby, 2002
In her self-portrait, Tracey Moffatt presents herself as her work.
Sir William Dargie CBE
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2003
Sir William Dargie, painter and eight times winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture, died in Melbourne on July 26, 2003, aged 91.
The activist A-list
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2007
Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.
The spirit of the gift
Magazine article by Andrew Sayers AM, 2003
Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers celebrates the support given to the Gallery by Gordon and Marilyn Darling.
Times like these
Magazine article by Gavin Fry, 2010
Gavin Fry examines the art and career of the Australian painter Rick Amor.
Queen of cartes
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2019
Joanna Gilmour discusses the role of the carte de visite in portraiture’s democratisation, and its harnessing by Victoria, the world’s first media monarch.
Arthur as Alyosha?
Magazine article by Patrick McCaughey, 2015
Patrick McCaughey explores a striking Boyd self portrait.
Hottie's Snifter to port
Magazine article by Peter Jeffrey, 2016
Peter Jeffrey trips the hound nostalgic.
Empire records
Magazine article by Kylie Scroope, 2011
Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.