Henry Mundy's portraits flesh out notions of propriety and good taste in a convict colony.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of colonial women Lady Ellen Stirling, Eliza Darling, Lady Eliza Arthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Lady Jane Franklin.
Jane Raffan asks do clothes make the portrait, and can the same work with a new title fetch a better price?
Jane Raffan examines unique styles of Indigenous portraiture that challenge traditional Western concepts of the artform.
Australian character on the market by Jane Raffan.
Jane Raffan investigates auction sales of self portraits nationally and internationally.
Jane Raffan feasts on modernity’s entrée in the Belle Époque theatre of the demimonde.
In the exhibition William Kentridge: Drawn from Africa at the National Gallery of Australia, the artist marries Gogol's Tsarist Russia, with that of Stalin and the damaging history of his homeland, South Africa.
Politics and personae in the portraiture of TextaQueen by Jane Raffan.
National Gallery of Australia curator Jane Kinsman discusses the portraiture of Henri Matisse.
Anthony Browell reminisces about meeting Rose Lindsay, the wife of Australian artist Norman Lindsay.
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
The discovery of Dempsey's People, Australian rugby greats, Athol Shmith's progressive pictures, and powerful Indigenous portraits.
Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.
Olegas Truchanas and Peter Dombrovskis, photographers and conservationists, shared a love of photography and exploring wilderness areas of Tasmania.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
