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The house, the horse, the wife and the offspring
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour writes about the portraiture of the colonial artist William Nicholas.
Figurative foundation
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and art of the Australian artist Janet Dawson.
The aviatrix
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the extraordinary life of Australian female aviator Nancy Bird Walton AO OBE
Like wow
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of female Australian surfing legend Isabel Letham.
Chance encounter
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of one of Melbourne's early socialites, Jessie Eyre Williams.
The animating signature
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2019
Joanna Gilmore delights in the affecting drawings of Mathew Lynn.
The Dissecting Room
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2015
Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture.
Paper weight
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2022
Joanna Gilmour delves into a collection display that celebrates the immediacy and potency of drawing as an art form in its own right.
Finest quality
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of Chinese-Australian businessman and philanthropist Quong Tart.
Nocturnal animals
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2017
Joanna Gilmour explores the enticing urban shadows cast by artists Martin Lewis and Edward Hopper.
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Showing character
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2016
Joanna Gilmour on Tom Durkin playing with Melbourne's manhood.
Expect the unexpected
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2019
Joanna Gilmour revels in accidental artist Charles Rodius’ nineteenth century renderings of Indigenous peoples.
Love in the extreme
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2020
Joanna Gilmour reveals love’s more intense manifestations in the tale of Lord Kenelm and Venetia Digby.
Alternative virtue
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2015
Joanna Gilmour presents John Kay’s portraits of a more infamous side of Edinburgh.
A man of superior attainments
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2013
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
The shipwright's arms
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2013
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of convict-turned-artist William Buelow Gould.