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Little women
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2019
Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters’ true grit.
Intense identity
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2009
Dr Chistopher Chapman discusses the portrait of Australian author Christos Tsiolkas taken by John Tsiavis.
Lear unbuttoned
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011
Sarah Engledow steps up to the footlights and applauds the storyline behind Nicholas Harding's portraits of actor John Bell.
Barak, respected elder
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2009
Dr Christopher Chapman looks at the life of Wurundjeri elder William Barak through the portrait painted by Victor de Pury in 1899.
Ready , set... shoot
Magazine article by Christine Clark, 2006
The exhibition Flash: Australian Athletes in Focus offers various interpretations of sporting men and women by five Australian photographers.
The animating signature
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2019
Joanna Gilmore delights in the affecting drawings of Mathew Lynn.
Nobel and his prize
Magazine article by Jennifer Gason, 2003
To complement the exhibition Australians and the Nobel Prize, Jennifer Gason gives us a sense of the proceedings that occur during the award ceremony.
Tribute
Bob Ellis
Magazine article, 2016
Bob Ellis (1942–2016) was a journalist, columnist, screenwriter, film director, playwright, speechwriter and critic.
A new perspective
Magazine article by Celina Fox, 2006
An exhibition devoted to Hans Holbein's English commissions shows the portraitist bringing across the Channel new technical developments in art - with a dazzling facility.
The fat of the land
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’.
Hired guns, bounty hunters and horse whisperers
Magazine article by Jude Rae, 2016
Jude Rae contemplates the portrait commission.
In the thick of it
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2010
Projecting the splendour of the empire, and the resolve of its subjects, the bust of William Birdwood keeps a stiff upper lip in the National Portrait Gallery.
Cook in context
Magazine article by Diana Warnes, 2007
Robert Oatley's continuing benefaction has helped the National Portrait Gallery acquire works that add another layer to the story of Captain Cook.
Fine and dandy
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Whether the result of misadventure or misdemeanour, many accomplished artists were transported to Australia where they ultimately left a positive mark on the history of art in this country.
More cash than dash
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2011
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
About grace
Magazine article by Penelope Grist, 2020
Penelope Grist finds philanthropy and fashion underpin the story of Susan Wakil AO.