Essays

Upon us, a luminous scene

Dr Simon Maidment

Some notes on conservation

Ewan McEoin

Spectrum: An Exploration of Colour

Amanda Dunsmore

NGV x MECCA: Louise Zhang

Katharina Prugger

Shining a light on low-pressure sodium lamps in DESTINY

Janelle Borig

Woven air: Reviving a regency dress

Ellen Doyle and Kate Douglas

Bringing to light Hans Heysen’s Sunshine and shadow

Raymonda Rajkowski

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

Louise Wilson

A perfect fit: conservation of Porcelaine

Kate Douglas

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

Raymonda Rajkowski

Fragile beauty: emu eggs in early Australian gold and silverware

Marika Strohschnieder

Beneath the surface: X-rays reveal a different story

Raye Collins and Carl Villis

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

Raye Collins

Hokusai and The great wave

Mem Capp

Modern Australian Women

Dr Maria Quirk

Verso: revealing the secret life of paintings

Laurie Benson & Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Susanna Highmore by Joseph Highmore: a father’s perspective

Carl Villis

Picture perfect: Pictorialism and its processes

Pip Morrison

La Petite, Evening Dress

Danielle Whitfield, Susan van Wyk and Bronwyn Cosgrove

200 Years of Australian Fashion

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