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Gareth Knapman explores the politics and opportunism behind the portraits of Tasmania’s Black War.
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Diana O’Neil samples the tartan treats on offer in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Tenille Hands explores a portrait prize gifted to the National Screen and Sound Archive.
Jennifer Higgie uncovers the intriguing stories behind portraits of women by women in the National Portrait Gallery’s collection.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
Alexandra Roginski reveals a forceful feminist figure in the colonial period’s slippery science, phrenology.
Traudi Allen discovers sensitivity, humour and fine draughtsmanship in the portraiture of John Perceval.
The London-born son of an American painter, Augustus Earle ended up in Australia by accident in January 1825.
An exhibition of humanness in ten themes by Penelope Grist.
Joanna Gilmour profiles Violet Teague, whose sophisticated works hid her originality and non-conformity in plain sight.
Anne Sanders celebrates the cinematic union of two pioneering australian women.
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
The Rajah Quilt’s narrative promptings are as intriguing as the textile is intricate.