All that fall: Sacrifice, life and loss in the First World War exhibition co-curators Dr Anne Sanders and Dr Christopher Chapman reflect on the evolution of the Gallery’s Anzac Centenary exhibition.
Penelope Grist spends some quality time with the Portrait Gallery’s summer collection exhibition, Eye to Eye.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
Sarah Engledow explores the history of the prime ministers and artists featured in the exhibition.
Michael Desmond discusses Fred Williams' portraits of friends, artist Clifton Pugh, David Aspden and writer Stephen Murray-Smith, and the stylistic connections between his portraits and landscapes.
Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the larger-than-life Australian performance artist, Leigh Bowery.
Jaynie Anderson reflects on her experience as sitter for Reshid Bey’s 1962 portrait.
Penelope Grist, National Photographic Portrait Prize judge and curator, introduces the 2020 Prize.
Athol Shmith’s photographs contributed to the emergence of a new vision of Australian womanhood.
Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.
Esther Erlich’s portrait of Lady McMahon.
Lesley Harding, Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne explores Albert Tucker’s experience of World War II, his interests in the intersection between psychology and creativity, and their influence on his portrait making.
Long after the portraitist became indifferent to her, and died, a beguiling portrait hung over its subject.
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
