Publications

Feature articles:

• Penelope Grist and Rebecca Ray talk to the artists in Portrait23: Identity about transcending traditional modes of portraiture. 


• Rebecca Ray reflects on Robert Fielding’s Mayatjara series honouring songlines and intergenerational knowledge.


• David Hansen’s tribute to his close friend, prince of words and former National Portrait Gallery Director, the late Angus Trumble.


• Jennifer Higgie reveals how Alice Neel reinvigorated 20th-century portraiture with her honest and perceptive depictions of the human experience.


• Rebecca Ray explores the way identity, belonging and connectedness are translated through materiality in First Nations portraiture.


• Elspeth Pitt chats with Archibald Prize-winning artist Yvette Coppersmith about performance, coincidences and the intersection of art and life.


• Joanna Gilmour delves into a collection display that celebrates the immediacy and potency of drawing as an art form in its own right.


• Artist Vincent Fantauzzo on dyslexia, connection and virtual sittings with Hugh Jackman.


• Bradley Vincent considers Samuel Hodge’s use of the archive to create a queer vernacular of portraiture.


• Joanna Gilmour profiles Violet Teague, whose sophisticated works ignored expectations of portraiture and hid her originality and non-conformity in plain sight.