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All dressed up
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2013
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
The 'I' in Indigenous art
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2013
Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.
Money for Myth
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2015
Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.
What price self?
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2013
Jane Raffan investigates auction sales of self portraits nationally and internationally.
Demimonde liaisons
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2017
Jane Raffan feasts on modernity’s entrée in the Belle Époque theatre of the demimonde.
A nose by any other name
Magazine article by Jane Kinsman, 2013
In the exhibition William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa at the National Gallery of Australia, the artist marries Gogol's Tsarist Russia, with that of Stalin and the damaging history of his homeland, South Africa.
Pen power
Magazine article by Jane Raffan, 2015
Politics and personae in the portraiture of TextaQueen by Jane Raffan.
Listening to form
Magazine article by Jane Kinsman, 2007
National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman discusses the portraiture of Henri Matisse.
Strutt your stuff
Magazine article by Matthew Jones, 2016
Matthew Jones on the upshot of a St Kilda Road outrage.
Shiny, happy people
Magazine article by Glynis Jones, 2022
Glynis Jones on the Powerhouse’s retrospective of one of Australia’s foremost fashion reportage and social photographers.
Tracks in the sand
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2008
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses Quentin Jones's photograph of Australian author Tim Winton.
Home and away
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
Sir William Dobell painted the portraits of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones and Sir Hudson Fysh, who did much to promote the image of Australia in this country and abroad.
Duty bound
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of colonial women Lady Ellen Stirling, Eliza Darling, Lady Eliza Arthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Lady Jane Franklin.
Fits of delicacy and despair
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Henry Mundy's portraits flesh out notions of propriety and good taste in a convict colony.
Portrait 66
Summer 2021/22
Magazine
The Huxleys, National Portrait Gallery London’s masterpieces, Jennifer Higgie on portraits of women by women, Tamara Dean, Bangarra, Glynis Jones on fashion photographers, and NPG/NGV collaboration.
Charmed by the Rose
Magazine article by Anthony Browell, 2004
Anthony Browell reminisces about meeting Rose Lindsay, the wife of Australian artist Norman Lindsay.