Please note alternative access routes are in place for entry to the Gallery from the visitor car park from Monday 24 August to Wednesday 26 August. Please follow signage and directions from staff.

Carrie Kibbler looks at how portraiture fits into the Australian Artbank Collection.


Jo Gilmour uncovers endearing authenticity in the art of a twice-transported Tasmanian.

At first glance, this small watercolour group portrait of her two sons and four daughters by Maria Caroline Brownrigg (d. 1880) may seem prosaic, even hesitant