Martin Philbey’s portrait of Dan Sultan.
Angus Trumble reveals the complex technical mastery behind a striking recent acquisition, Henry Bone’s enamel portrait of William Manning.
In March 2003 Magda Keaney travelled to London to join the photography section of the Victoria & Albert Museum for three months.
John Zubrzycki lauds the characters of the Australian escapology trade.
Projecting the splendour of the empire, and the resolve of its subjects, the bust of William Birdwood keeps a stiff upper lip in the National Portrait Gallery.
Sarah Engledow plays wingman to Leila Jeffreys.
Jerrold Nathan's portrait of Jessie Street shows the elegant side of a many-faceted lady.
Exhibition curator Christine Clark introduces the work by Indonesian artist Agus Suwage created for Beyond the self: Contemporary portraiture from Asia.
Politics and personae in the portraiture of TextaQueen by Jane Raffan.
Robert Hannaford has completed around 400 portraits over the span of his career.
Meredith Hughes explores a key Portrait Gallery work, emerging into the infinite iterations of identity.
Esther Erlich’s portrait of Lady McMahon.
Gumbaynggirr artist Aretha Brown talks street art, collaboration and ghost stories with First Nations Curator and Meriam woman, Rebecca Ray.
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
The death of a gentlewoman is shrouded in mystery, a well-liked governor finds love after sorrow, and two upright men become entangled in the historical record.
Joanna Gilmour explores the life of colonial women Lady Ellen Stirling, Eliza Darling, Lady Eliza Arthur, Elizabeth Macquarie and Lady Jane Franklin.