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I like talking about Drendel’s pictures as if they expressed dreams of my own.
Shen Jiawei was born in China. During the Cultural Revolution he laboured in the Great Northern Wilderness, but even as he worked there, he gained recognition as an artist.
Robyn's parents had two terriers, Wuff and Snuff. In spite of Snuff’s ominous name and a couple of close shaves – once, he jumped out of a moving car, and another time, on a long road trip, he was accidentally left behind at a petrol station – he outlived Wuff.
With a mum who was married to a tradie, you’d think it a fair chance that the baby Jesus would have grown up with a dog in the house.
Curator, Sarah Engledow, introduces the artists and the animals in The Popular Pet Show.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
Sarah Engledow plays wingman to Leila Jeffreys.
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
'Artist and actors, advancing spasmodically, find their rhythm together' writes Sarah Engledow.
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
The death of a gentlewoman is shrouded in mystery, a well-liked governor finds love after sorrow, and two upright men become entangled in the historical record.
Long after the portraitist became indifferent to her, and died, a beguiling portrait hung over its subject.
This exhibition showcases portraits acquired through the generosity of the National Portrait Gallery’s Founding Patrons, L Gordon Darling AC CMG and Marilyn Darling AC.
Sarah Engledow writes about Gordon and Marilyn Darling and their support for the National Portrait Gallery throughout its evolution.
Rick Amor, noblest yet most unaffected of contemporary Australian portraitists, is also a painter of enigmatic, ominous landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes that haunt the viewer like dreams, dimly-recalled.