Vincent Namatjira, a Western Arrernte artist, is Albert Namatjira’s great-grandson. His genre is portraiture, but with a twist: loaded with satire and post-colonial politics.
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The portraits hold up a mirror to a society that has underappreciated the Windrush generation for far too long.
Yevonde was a celebrated portraitist, innovative colourist and advocate for women in the profession. In short, a pioneer.
In a 1959 essay, Capote noted how Avedon seemed to capture ‘every hard-earned crow’s foot’ in his subjects – perhaps not realizing that he would one day be photographed by that same unvarnished gaze.
How the artist found endless variety in the daily view from his bed, cycling through the seasons with kaleidoscopes of light, colour, texture, form and space.
As a migrant family, participating in this ritual made us feel and appear more Australian, if only to ourselves.
Coming together for a portrait creates playful opportunities for social interactions among strangers.
Young queer people growing up in rural areas don’t necessarily need to flee their communities to find safety and acceptance.
The camera has long been used to defy a media landscape steeped in negative portrayals of Black families.
Leak will be the first official portrait painter of a former Prime Minister who has not been an Archibald finalist.
Most years, the Archibald exhibition is worth viewing as an amusing exercise in social history. This year it is worth seeing for the art.
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Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Chief Curator, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
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Professor of History, Clark University
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Associate Professor of History; Chair of the Department of History, University of Idaho
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