Michael Desmond explores the complex portrait of Dr Bob Brown by Harold 'The Kangaroo' Thornton.
Traversing paint and pixels, Inga Walton examines portraits of select women in Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits.
Joanna Gilmour explores the enticing urban shadows cast by artists Martin Lewis and Edward Hopper.
An interview with the photographer.
Penelope Grist reminisces about the halcyon days of a print icon, before the infusion of the internet’s shades of grey.
Jean Appleton’s 1965 self portrait makes a fine addition to the National Portrait Gallery’s collection writes Joanna Gilmour.
Malcolm Robertson tells the family history of one of Australia's earliest patrons of the arts, his Scottish born great great great grandfather, William Robertson.
Michelle Fracaro describes Lionel Lindsay's woodcut The Jester (self-portrait).
The photographs from Matthew Sleeth's tour of duty series look more like advertisements than images of war.
Gael Newton delves into the life and art of renowned Australian photographer, Max Dupain.
Alexandra Roginski gets a feel for phrenology’s fundamentals.
Joanna Gilmour describes how colonial portraitists found the perfect market among social status seeking Sydneysiders.
As the National Portrait Gallery opens its exhibition of portrait and figurative work by veteran photographer Sam Haskins, the artist reflects on the highlights of his fifty-year career so far.
As a convict Thomas Bock was required to sketch executed murders for science; as a free man, fashionable society portraits.
