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Poison pen
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2010
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Hot Scots
Magazine article by Christopher Baker, 2013
James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Dan the man
Magazine article by India Bednall, 2015
Martin Philbey’s portrait of Dan Sultan.
Eye line
Magazine article by Jo Bertini, 2004
Jo Bertini describes the evolution of her portrait of artists and friends Kitty Kantilla and Freda Warlapinni.
Enigma
Magazine article by Dr Grace Blakeley-Carroll, 2015
Grace Carroll contemplates the curious case of Christian Waller.
Moving pictures
Magazine article by Dr Christopher Chapman, 2008
The exhibition California Video at the J Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles demonstrated how video artists expand the boundaries of portraiture.
Public hanging
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2008
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
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.
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.
Costantini's convictions
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2017
Jo Gilmour uncovers endearing authenticity in the art of a twice-transported Tasmanian.