Essays

Bringing to light Hans Heysen’s Sunshine and shadow

By Raymonda Rajkowski

The paper trail: a study of watermarks in the National Gallery of Victoria’s collection of Albrecht Dürer prints

By Louise Wilson

Conservator Insight: Japanese Modernism display systems

By Ruth Shervington

A perfect fit: conservation of Porcelaine

By Kate Douglas

Moga: the audacity of being a modern girl

By Mariko Nagai

What is in a title? Dick Watkins’s Rain in West Pymble

By Raymonda Rajkowski

Fragile beauty: emu eggs in early Australian gold and silverware

By Marika Strohschnieder

Beneath the surface: X-rays reveal a different story

By Raye Collins and Carl Villis

‘Unfolding’ Japanese screens

By Ruth Shervington

A revelation: the X-ray of Herbert Badham’s Paint and morning tea (1937)

By Raye Collins

Hokusai and The great wave

By Mem Capp

Modern Australian Women

By Maria Quirk

Verso: revealing the secret life of paintings

By Laurie Benson & Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Susanna Highmore by Joseph Highmore: a father’s perspective

By Carl Villis

Picture perfect: Pictorialism and its processes

By Pip Morrison

La Petite, Evening Dress

By Danielle Whitfield, Susan van Wyk and Bronwyn Cosgrove

200 Years of Australian Fashion

By Paola Di Trocchio, Janice Breen Burns, Margaret Maynard, Rosalie Ham & Kym Ellery

A scrap album worthy of a fancy dress

By Kate Douglas

Illuminating: conservation of neon lights

By Trude Ellingsen

Brilliant vision: the making of Van Dyck’s dazzling portrait of Rachel de Ruvigny

By Carl Villis