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Robyn Sweaney's quiet Violet obsession.
Penny Grist on motivation, method and melancholy in the portraiture of Darren McDonald.
Dr Sarah Engledow traces the significant links between Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo and Evelyn Chapman through their portraits.
Diana Warnes explores the lives of Hal and Katherine 'Kate' Hattam through their portraits painted by Fred Williams and Clifton Pugh.
Andrew Mayo talks to three of Australia’s most prominent and prolific music photographers — Martin Philbey, Kane Hibberd and Daniel Boud — about the challenges and inspiration behind their craft.
Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.
Sarah Engledow looks at three decades of Nicholas Harding's portraiture.
Michael Desmond charts the path of portraiture, arriving at Julian Opie’s digital realm.
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.
Christopher Chapman highlights the inaugural hang of the new National Portrait Gallery building which opened in December 2008.
Nathan Faiman delves into the rich life story and legacy of Alan Goldberg.
Where do we draw a line between the personal and the historical? Although she died in Melbourne in 1975, when I was not quite eleven years old, I have the vividest memories of my maternal grandmother Helen Borthwick.
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.
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Over the years the young Nicholas Harding got his hands on various mice and guinea pigs, but they served mainly to illustrate the concept of mortality.