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The art of dress
Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2023
Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.
When birds no longer sing
Magazine article by Dr Emma Kindred, 2024
Emma Kindred looks at the career of Joan Ross, whose work subverts colonial imagery and its legacy with the clash of fluorescent yellow.
Let’s dance
Magazine article by Emma Batchelor, 2022
Emma Batchelor uncovers the compelling contemporary dance made in response to the works in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
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Magazine
Ryan Presley about portraiture, Emma Kindred on the career of Joan Ross, Ellie Buttrose looks at Archie Moore’s kith and kin, and Joanna Gilmour steps into the world of Julie Rrap.
Observation point
Magazine article by The Huxleys, 2022
Growing up feeling isolated, ostracised and ornate in the heated homogeny of the suburbs of Perth and the Gold Coast we often longed and dreamed for an escape.
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Winter 2022
Magazine
William Yang on his autobiographical self portraits, David Parker's 1970s and 80s Melbourne music photographs, seven-time NPPP finalist Chris Budgeon, and Benjamin Warlngundu Ellis.
Go glossy!
Magazine article by Katherine Russell, 2006
In association with the Glossy 2 exhibition, eight year 10,11 and 12 students spent two days transforming themselves into a variety of alter-egos in the first ever 8x10 Glossy Photo Shoot Workshop.
Diamond Doll
Magazine article by Karen Vickery, 2016
Karen Vickery delights in a thespian thread of the Australian yarn.
Small worlds
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
Take thy face hence
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2022
Joanna Gilmour travels through time to explore the National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces in Shakespeare to Winehouse.
Jewelled nights
Magazine article by Dr Anne Sanders, 2017
Anne Sanders celebrates the cinematic union of two pioneering australian women.
Presence and absence
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2018
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.