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Black tie or wombat: How formal should I go?
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2008
Michael Desmond discusses the portrait of Senator Neville Bonner by Robert Campbell Jnr.
Oz and beyond
Magazine article by Diana Warnes, 2007
Martin Sharp fulfils the Pop art idiom of merging art and life.
Empire records
Magazine article by Kylie Scroope, 2011
Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.
Lauded legacy
Magazine article by Karl James, 2015
Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.
Earth to earth
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2013
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.
The Dissecting Room
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2015
Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture.
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.
Off her own bat
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2022
Joanna Gilmour profiles Violet Teague, whose sophisticated works hid her originality and non-conformity in plain sight.
You are who?
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2022
Joanna Gilmour reflects on merging collections and challenging traditional assumptions around portraiture in WHO ARE YOU.