Celebrate the people, places and sounds of Australian pub rock and its enduring impact on our nation’s identity.
Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters’ true grit.
Joanna Gilmour examines the prolific output of Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, and discovers the risk of taking a portrait at face value.
Despite once expressing a limited interest in the self portrait, the idea of it has figured strongly in much of Tracey Moffatt's work and has done so in some of her most distinctive and compelling images.
Photography played a significant role in the circulation of messages about law and order, and in the creation of sensation and celebrity.
Waxworks were among the various types of entertainment venue to emerge in Australian cities in the mid-nineteenth century.
Though initially developed by physicians, phrenology was taken up by certain non-medical practitioners who applied the theory to social questions such as education and criminal reform.
Many performers availed themselves of the services of photographic studios, posing for carte de visite portraits that served as souvenirs and as instruments in the making of renown and notoriety.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
By the end of the eighteenth century, crime, criminals and punishment were standard subjects for those engaged in the English print trade.
The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.
The London-born son of an American painter, Augustus Earle ended up in Australia by accident in January 1825.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
The Victorian era has been described as one wherein death was a part of everyday experience. People died at home having been nursed in their final illnesses by family members.
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
Joanna Gilmour describes how artist Sam Leach works on a small scale to grand effect.
