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Portraits: a photographic portrait of two sisters pictured while looking into the camera while one has her arm around the other, set against a white background.
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Portraits of the future cast light on 'truths' of today

Is the prevalence of AI shifting our perceptions of who we really are? A new exhibition speculates on these questions…

India Mark, ‘Studio self-portrait’, 2023. Winner of the Ashurt Emerging Artist Prize. In the portrait, Mark looks candidly at the viewer. Wearing a collared black shirt, she appears to be painting her own portrait. She stands in front of a neon green canvas which contrasts her figure.
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The power of portraiture and human connection

The Lester Prize encourages submissions to explore the depths and reaches of identity expressed through portraiture.

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Exhibition review: Daniel Mudie Cunningham, Wollongong Art Gallery

Daniel Mudie Cunningham's survey exhibition is a lesson in celebrating becoming.

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Celebrating the vision of female photographers in recent exhibitions

Female photographers in the spotlight with a series of currently showing and upcoming exhibitions, each expanding the idea of portraiture.

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16 unexpected takes on 'mother and child'

Artists breaking the stereotype on the mother and child genre.

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Exhibition review: Portrait23: Identity, NPG

Punching through the constraints of the genre, ‘Portrait23: Identity’ is an ambitious and challenging exhibition.

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Catherine Opie: global lens, Australian click-through

In an Australian first, a survey exhibition of LA-based queer photographer, Catherine Opie, heads to Heide.

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Enough with the selfies; look at the art

US museum guard Dereck Stafford Mangus urges museum goers to put their phones down, just for a minute.

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Why the Queen was a good ‘subject’

Aussie artists share why they were compelled to capture the Queen in their work.

Naomi Hobson portrait of an Aboriginal girl as a mermaid
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Faceless portraiture redefines blak/black identity

A new exhibition at Cairns Art Gallery draws international connections with Indigenous Australia when re-imagining identity and social politics.

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