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A rogue's calling card

Joanna Gilmour explores the stories behind the ninteenth-century carte de visites of bushrangers Frank Gardiner and Fred Lowry.

Catholic clergymen from the Diocese of Adelaide, c. 1862

Purchased 2018

Hot Scots

James Holloway describes the first portraits you encounter when entering the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

Sideshow Alley

Death masks, post-mortem drawings and other spooky and disquieting portraits... Come and see how portraits of infamous Australians were used in the 19th century.

9 lives of Karin Catt

Australian photographer Karin Catt has shot across the spectrum of celebrity, her subjects including rock stars, world leaders and actors.

Two pair

Finding Mrs Frisby

Robyn Sweaney's quiet Violet obsession.

The mind's eye

Christopher Chapman takes a trip through the doors of perception, arriving at the junction of surrealism and psychoanalysis.

Lauded legacy

Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.

Kristin Headlam

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.

Love my way

Inga Walton delves into the bohemian group of artists and writers who used each other as muses and transformed British culture.