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In 2007 the National Portrait Gallery produced its first online exhibition featuring the animated self portraits created by some of Australia’s most innovative visual artists and animators.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Jo Gilmour uncovers endearing authenticity in the art of a twice-transported Tasmanian.
The London-born son of an American painter, Augustus Earle ended up in Australia by accident in January 1825.
Former National Portrait Gallery Curator Magda Keaney was a member of the selection panel of the Schwepes Photographic Portrait Prize 2004 at the National Portrait Gallery London.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life and times of convict-turned-artist William Buelow Gould.
Michelle Fracaro describes Lionel Lindsay's woodcut The Jester (self-portrait).
Michael Riley’s early portraits by Amanda Rowell.
The Tate/SFMOMA exhibition Exposed examined the role of photography in voyeurism and how it challenges ideas of privacy and propriety.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
Dr Sarah Engledow writes about the larger-than-life Australian performance artist, Leigh Bowery.
Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.
Joanna Gilmour presents John Kay’s portraits of a more infamous side of Edinburgh.
Whether the result of misadventure or misdemeanour, many accomplished artists were transported to Australia where they ultimately left a positive mark on the history of art in this country.