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Sandra Bruce gazes on love and the portrait through Australian Love Stories’ multi-faceted prism.
Charting a path from cockatiel to finch, Annette Twyman explores her family portraits and stories.
Joanna Gilmour reveals love’s more intense manifestations in the tale of Lord Kenelm and Venetia Digby.
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Inga Walton traces the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou, revealed in the NGV’s summer retrospective.
Sarah Engledow pens a fond farewell to acclaimed science historian Ann Moyal.
Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters’ true grit.
Joanna Gilmour revels in accidental artist Charles Rodius’ nineteenth century renderings of Indigenous peoples.
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Joanna Gilmour discusses the role of the carte de visite in portraiture’s democratisation, and its harnessing by Victoria, the world’s first media monarch.
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.
Sarah Engledow arrives at the junction of fate and hope in Sarah Ball’s poignant Immigrants series.