Joanna Gilmour describes some of the stories of the individuals and incidents that define French exploration of Australia and the Pacific.
Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.
Dr Sarah Engledow explores the portraits of writers held in the National Portrait Gallery's collection.
How seven portraits within Bare reveal in a public portrait parts of the body and elements of life usually located in the private sphere.
John Singer Sargent: a painter at the vanguard of contemporary movements in music, literature and theatre.
Representations of the inhabitants of the new world expose the complexities of the colonisers' intentions.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
