Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.
Judith Pugh reflects on Clifton Pugh's approach to portrait making.
John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.
Basil grew into a speckled beauty – a long-legged leaper and an exceptionally vocal dog, with a great register of sounds, ascending in shock value from a whimper to a growl to a bark to a yelp that’s a violation of the ears.
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).
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.
Tedi Bills talks to George Gittoes about canvassing conflict.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Anne Sanders celebrates the cinematic union of two pioneering australian women.
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
