The story behind two colonial portraits; a lithograph of captain and convict John Knatchbull and newspaper illustration of Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke.
Joanna Gilmour recounts the story of ill-fated sea voyages in the early stages of the Antipodean colony.
Professor Stephen Fitzgerald, Australia’s first Ambassador to China, traces the historical course from sino-australian cultural engagement to a maturing Australian identity.
Aviation carried women’s roles in society to greater heights – fashion followed suit.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
Anne Sanders finds connections in Inner Worlds between Hungarian expatriates and the development of psychoanalysis in Australia.
George Selth Coppin (1819-1906) comedian, impresario and entrepreneur, was a driving force of the early Australian theatre.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Three tiny sketches of Dame Nellie Melba in the NPG collection were created by the artist who was to go on to paint the most imposing representation of the singer: Rupert Bunny.
The biographical exhibition of Barry Humphries was the first display of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
Claire Roberts interviews Swiss art collector Uli Sigg.
Penelope Grist finds inspiration in pioneering New Zealand artist, Frances Hodgkins.
Sean Davey captures the portrait of a nation renewed.
An extract from the 2004 Nuala O'Flaaherty Memorial Lecture at the Queen Victoria Musuem and Art Gallery in Launceston in which Andrew Sayers reflects on the unique qualities of a portrait gallery.
