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Start Your Engines...

The bronze sculpture by Julie Edgar reflects through both the material and representation the determined and straight-forward nature of Brabham. 

Boyd to man

Christopher Chapman looks at influences and insight in the formative years of Arthur Boyd.

The importance of being bearded

Joanna Gilmour discovers that the beards of the ill-fated explorers Burke and Wills were as epic as their expedition to traverse Australia from south to north.

The animating signature

Joanna Gilmore delights in the affecting drawings of Mathew Lynn.

I'm not there

Heroine knits

‘Dear Kate Just – I’m your feminist fan’. Interview by Sophia Cai.

Picture this...

This edited version of a speech by Andrew Sayers examines some of the antecedents of the National Portrait Gallery and set out the ideas behind the modern Gallery and its collection.

Wunderkind lost

Inga Walton on the brief but brilliant life of Hugh Ramsay.

Material culture

The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.

Heartfelt

The portrait of Janet and Horace Keats with the spirit of the poet Christopher Brennan is brought to life by artist Dora Toovey.

A potpourri of portraits

Archie 100 curator (and detective) Natalie Wilson’s nationwide search for Archibald portraits unearthed the fascinating stories behind some long-lost treasures.

Risky business

John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.

The incomparable Beaton

To accompany the exhibition Cecil Beaton: Portraits, held at the NPG in 2005, this article is drawn from Hugo Vickers's authorised biography, Cecil Beaton (1985).

More cash than dash

Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.

The art of dress

Emma Kindred examines fashion as a representation of self and social ritual in 19th-century portraiture.

Through blue eyes

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.

Jewelled nights

Anne Sanders celebrates the cinematic union of two pioneering australian women.

Thrown together

Shipmates for years, James Cook and Joseph Banks each kept a journal but neither man shed light on their relationship.