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Joanna Gilmour recounts the story of ill-fated sea voyages in the early stages of the Antipodean colony.
Robin Sellick captured a rare moment of quietude from the late conservation star Steve Irwin.
Sandra Bruce chats with seven-time NPPP finalist Chris Budgeon about photography, guitars and representing the human story.
Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.
Michelle Fracaro describes Lionel Lindsay's woodcut The Jester (self-portrait).
The National Portrait Gallery acquired a beguiling silhouette group portrait by Samuel Metford, an English artist who spent periods of his working life in America.
Australian artist and Archibald Prize winner, Jenny Sages reflects on her work.
Robert Oatley talks about the repatriation of the John Webber portrait of Captain James Cook.
Jude Rae contemplates the portrait commission.
Michael Desmond profiles a handful of the entrants in first National Photographic Portrait Prize and notes emerging themes and categories.
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.
Projecting the splendour of the empire, and the resolve of its subjects, the bust of William Birdwood keeps a stiff upper lip in the National Portrait Gallery.
Joanna Gilmour presents John Kay’s portraits of a more infamous side of Edinburgh.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
The life and art of Australian artist Jenny Sages is on display in the exhibition Paths to Portraiture.
A focus on Indigenous-European relationships underpins Facing New Worlds. By Kate Fullagar.