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Be frank
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2020
Close encounters are the genesis for Graeme Drendel’s enticing portraiture.
The elegant thinker
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2020
Sarah Engledow pens a fond farewell to acclaimed science historian Ann Moyal.
Prima facie
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2019
Sarah Engledow casts a judicious eye over portraits in the Victorian Bar’s Peter O’Callaghan QC Portrait Gallery.
Petal to the mettle
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2019
Sarah Engledow lauds the very civil service of Dame Helen Blaxland.
Flash mob
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2019
Sarah Engledow trains her exacting lens on the nine photographs from 20/20.
A guy from Paris
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2018
Sarah Engledow on a foundational gallery figure who was quick on the draw.
Hope for kindness
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2018
Sarah Engledow arrives at the junction of fate and hope in Sarah Ball’s poignant Immigrants series.
Through thick and thin
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2017
Sarah Engledow likes the manifold mediums of Nicholas Harding’s portraiture.
20 20
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2017
Sarah Engledow picks some favourites from a decade of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
In your dreams
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2016
An excerpt from The Popular Pet Book.
All the way with K of K
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2016
Sarah Engledow bristles at the biographers’ neglect of Kitchener’s antipodean intervention.
A real tweet
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2016
Sarah Engledow plays wingman to Leila Jeffreys.
Bill and Ted's excellent portrait.
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2016
Sarah Engledow on Messrs Dobell and MacMahon and the art of friendship.
Waiting for Godot
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2015
'Artist and actors, advancing spasmodically, find their rhythm together' writes Sarah Engledow.
Regarding Henrys
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2015
Sarah Engledow ponders the divergent legacies of Messrs Kendall and Lawson.
The silent partner
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2015
One half of the team that was Eltham Films left scarcely a trace in the written historical record, but survives in a vivid portrait.