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James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Djon Mundine OAM brings poignant memory and context to Martin van der Wal’s 1986 portrait photographs of storied Aboriginal artists.
Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters’ true grit.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Joanna Gilmore delights in the affecting drawings of Mathew Lynn.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
Blue Mountain, Owner, Trainer, Jockey, James Scobie 1887 by Frederick Woodhouse Snr. is a portrait of James Scobie, well known jockey and eminent horse trainer.
In March 2003 Magda Keaney travelled to London to join the photography section of the Victoria & Albert Museum for three months.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
Sir William Dobell painted the portraits of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones and Sir Hudson Fysh, who did much to promote the image of Australia in this country and abroad.
Joanna Gilmour profiles the life and times of the shutter sisters May and Mina Moore.
Gael Newton delves into the life and art of renowned Australian photographer, Max Dupain.
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
The name of Florence Broadhurst, one of Australia’s most significant wallpaper and textile designers, is now firmly cemented in the canon of Australian art and design.
Works by Arthur Boyd and Sidney Nolan bring the desert, the misty seashore and the hot Monaro plains to exhibition Open Air: Portraits in the landscape.
The world of Thea Proctor was the National Portrait Gallery's second exhibition to follow the life of a single person, following Rarely Everage: The lives of Barry Humphries.