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Empire records

Celebrates the centenary of the first national art collection, the Historic Memorials Collection, housed at Australia's Parliament House.

Annual Appeal

Peripheral vision

Aimee Board chats to emerging photographer Charles Dennington.

Getting a head

Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.

Lauded legacy

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

Earth to earth

Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.

The Dissecting Room

Joanna Gilmour accounts for Australia’s deliciously ghoulish nineteenth century criminal portraiture. 

More cash than dash

Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.

Off her own bat

Joanna Gilmour profiles Violet Teague, whose sophisticated works hid her originality and non-conformity in plain sight.

You are who?

Joanna Gilmour reflects on merging collections and challenging traditional assumptions around portraiture in WHO ARE YOU.

Less than six degrees of separation

Dr Anne Sanders NPG Curatorial Researcher investigated the lives of the pioneering psychologists whose portraits are featured in Inner Worlds.