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Conversation pieces

Curator Emma Kindred shares a glimpse of the creative process behind her selection of works for the National Portrait Gallery’s salon hang.

The art of dress

Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.

When birds no longer sing

Emma Kindred looks at the career of Joan Ross, whose work subverts colonial imagery and its legacy with the clash of fluorescent yellow.

In Profile

Isobel Parker Philip and Emma Kindred delve into Emily Hunt’s embellished marionettes and intricate etchings which layer history, memory and magic.

Together on Country

Emma Kindred considers the artistic lineage and deep Ancestral connection between Vincent Namatjira and his great-grandfather Albert Namatjira.

Untitled, 2016

Nina and Paul, 2008

Transition: Nikki & Nick, 2011

A stitch in time: Participating in portraiture

Author and embroidery enthusiast Emma Batchelor shares her experience of joining a sewing circle with Portrait23: Identity artist Deborah Kelly.

Let’s dance

Emma Batchelor uncovers the compelling contemporary dance made in response to the works in Shakespeare to Winehouse.

Keenan

Read the Room

Sisters or Friends

Emma Tear Tack, 2017

Purchased 2019

Ruby (left view)

Aborigines at Oyster Cove, Tasmania, 1858 (printed 1890s)

Purchased 2011