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Polly Borland talks to Oliver Giles about the celebrity portraits that made her name and why she’s now making more abstract art.
Angus Trumble reflects on the force of nature that was Helena Rubinstein.
Dr Sarah Engledow puts four gifts to the National Portrait Gallery’s Collection in context.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discusses a collection of drawings and prints by the Victorian artist Rick Amor acquired in 2005.
Dr Sarah Engledow examines a number of figures in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery who were pioneers or substantial supporters of the seminal Australian environmental campaigns of the early 1970s and 1980s.
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Anne Sanders imbibes Tony Bilson’s gastronomic revolution.
Fiona Gruber investigates the work of Australian painter Kristin Headlam.
Karl James gives short shrift to doubts about the profile of General Sir John Monash.
Dr Sarah Engledow discusses the recent gift of works by David Campbell.
The complex connections between four creative Australians; Patrick White, Sidney Nolan, Robert Helpmann and Peter Sculthorpe.
The art of Australia’s colonial women painters affords us an invaluable, alternative perspective on the nascent nation-building project.
Dr. Sarah Engledow discovers the amazing life of Ms. Hilda Spong, little remembered star of the stage, who was captured in a portrait by Tom Roberts.
Dempsey’s People curator David Hansen chronicles a research tale replete with serendipity, adventure and Tasmanian tigers.
Joanna Gilmour discusses the role of the carte de visite in portraiture’s democratisation, and its harnessing by Victoria, the world’s first media monarch.
The tragic tale of Tom Wills, the ‘inventor’ of Australian Rules Football.