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Exposed: Voyeurism Surveillance and the camera since 1870
Magazine article by Sandra Phillips, 2010
The Tate/SFMOMA exhibition Exposed examined the role of photography in voyeurism and how it challenges ideas of privacy and propriety.
Activating the space
Magazine article by Sandra Phillips, 2020
Sandra Phillips on portraits of Indigenous activism from Cairns Art Gallery’s 2019 Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture exhibition.
Charlie's angles
Magazine article by Stephen Phillips, 2017
Stephen Phillips talks to neurosurgeon Charlie Teo about his practice, perspectives and the anatomy of hope.
Ryan Presley
In conversation
Magazine article by April Phillips, 2024
April Phillips (Wiradjuri-Scottish, kalari/galari) yarns with Marri Ngarr artist Ryan Presley about portraiture, resilience and the spirit held within fire.
Shop Talk
Magazine article by Stephen Phillips, 2016
Angus and the arbiters talk (photo) shop for the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Portrait 64
Summer 2019/20
Magazine
Marian Anderson, emerging photographer Charles Dennington, piscatorial portraits, and the poignant path of photographer Polixeni Papapetrou and more.
Portrait 71
Magazine
Ryan Presley about portraiture, Emma Kindred on the career of Joan Ross, Ellie Buttrose looks at Archie Moore’s kith and kin, and Joanna Gilmour steps into the world of Julie Rrap.
The Wonder Years
Magazine article by Sarah Hill, 2001
Sarah Hill introduces the portrait busts of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Captain Charles Ulm by Enid Fleming.
In a good paddock
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2011
Celebrating a new painted portrait of Joseph Banks, Sarah Engledow spins a yarn of the naturalist, the first kangaroo in France and Don, a Spanish ram.
Duty bound
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2009
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of colonial women Lady Ellen Stirling, Eliza Darling, Lady Eliza Arthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Lady Jane Franklin.
Paper weight
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2022
Joanna Gilmour delves into a collection display that celebrates the immediacy and potency of drawing as an art form in its own right.
Small worlds
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2010
Bess Norriss Tait created miniature watercolour portraits full of character and life.
Poison pen
Magazine article by Michael Desmond, 2010
Michael Desmond examines the career of the eighteenth-century suspected poisoner and portrait artist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
A man of superior attainments
Magazine article by Joanna Gilmour, 2013
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of a colonial portrait artist, writer and rogue Thomas Griffiths Wainewright.
Snap decisions
Magazine article by Robert Cook, 2018
NPPP judge Robert Cook provides irreverent insight into this year’s fare, and having to be a bit judgemental.
Unbuttoning uniforms
Magazine article by Sharon Peoples, 2017
Sharon Peoples contemplates costumes and the construction of identity.