Former NPG Director, Andrew Sayers describes the 1922 Self-portrait with Gladioli by George Lambert.
Michael Desmond explores the portraiture of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
Charles Haddon Chambers the Australian-born playboy playwright settled permanently in London in 1880 but never lost his Australian stance when satirising the English.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
Frank Hurley's celebrated images document the heroism and minutiae of Australian exploration in Antarctica.
Penelope Grist explores the United Nations stories in the Gallery’s collection.
Joanna Gilmour brings a mindful Douglas Mawson’s perspective to bear on the concept of isolation.
Sarah Engledow is seduced by the portraits and the connections between the artists and their subjects in the exhibition Impressions: Painting light and life.
Curator, Penny Grist, reveals how this exhibition came to be
Lesley Harding, Curator, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne explores Albert Tucker’s experience of World War II, his interests in the intersection between psychology and creativity, and their influence on his portrait making.
