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The art of multiplicity
Magazine article by Meredith Hughes, 2019
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
Heart of Darkness
Magazine article by Magda Keaney, 2002
Magda Keaney talks with Bill Leak about his bold new portrait of Robert Hughes in the National Portrait Gallery collection.
Portrait 5
September - November 2002
Magazine
This issue of Portrait Magazine features Bill Leak's portrait of Robert Hughes, Polly Borland's photographs, Bill Brandt, Andy Thomas, Tracey Moffatt and more.
Portrait 63
Winter 2019
Magazine
Rod McNicol's method and motivation, 19th century Indigenous peoples, Barrie Cassidy on Bob Hawke, five generations of the Kang family from Korea and more.
Michael Kimmelman
Magazine article by Pamela Gray, 2002
Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times and author of Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere, presented the National Portrait Gallery Third Anniversary Lecture on 2 March 2002. He was generously brought to Australia by the Gordon Darling Foundation and Qantas.
Mugshots
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2006
A toast to the acquisition of an unconventional new portrait of former Prime Minister, Stanley Melbourne Bruce.
Hot Scots
Magazine article by Christopher Baker, 2013
James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Between life and death you’re a miracle
Magazine article by Elspeth Pitt, 2024
Elspeth Pitt talks to multidisciplinary artist Nell about ghosts, artistic lineages and hybrid art forms.
A guy from Paris
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2018
Sarah Engledow on a foundational gallery figure who was quick on the draw.
Australian Princess
Magazine article by Katherine Russell, 2005
The full-length portrait of HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark by artist Jiawei Shen, has become a destination piece for visitors.
Giving and getting
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2006
The exhibition Portraits for Posterity celebrates gifts to the Gallery, of purchases made with donated funds, and testifies to the generosity and community spirit of Australians.
Unbuttoning uniforms
Magazine article by Sharon Peoples, 2017
Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.
Bloodlines
Magazine article by Michelle Fracaro, 2004
Michelle Fracaro describes Lionel Lindsay's woodcut The Jester (self-portrait).
The essence of you
Magazine article by Lee Tulloch, 2011
Lee Tulloch remembers her great friend NIDA-trained actor turned photographer Stuart Campbell.
Full time
Magazine article by Alistair McGhie, 2017
Alistair McGhie reminisces about three Australian rugby greats commissioned for the Portrait Gallery collection by Patrick Corrigan AM.
Pop goes the preconception
Magazine article by Paul Moorhouse, 2007
A National Portrait Gallery, London exhibition redefines portraiture, shifting the focus towards a new perspective on Pop Art.