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Aimee Board chats to emerging photographer Charles Dennington.
Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture.
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.
Diana Warnes explores the lives of Hal and Katherine 'Kate' Hattam through their portraits painted by Fred Williams and Clifton Pugh.
Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.
Phil Manning celebrates a century of Brisbane photographic portraiture.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Joanna Gilmour looks beyond the ivory face of select portrait miniatures to reveal their sitters’ true grit.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discovers the amazing life of Ms. Hilda Spong, little remembered star of the stage, who was captured in a portrait by Tom Roberts.
Ashleigh Wadman rediscovers the Australian characters represented with a kindly touch by the British portrait artist Leslie Ward for the society magazine Vanity Fair.
Charles Haddon Chambers the Australian-born playboy playwright settled permanently in London in 1880 but never lost his Australian stance when satirising the English.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
2019 National Photographic Portrait Prize judge Anne O’Hehir looks beneath the surface of this year’s entries.
Penelope Grist reminisces about the halcyon days of a print icon, before the infusion of the internet’s shades of grey.
Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.