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Essays

To see a world in a grain of sand: a closer look at the ‘Melbourne Blakes’

By Louise Wilson

The Poussin Project

By Carl Villis

Eugene von Guérard: Nature Revealed

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Lady Elizabeth Hamilton’s hidden gesture

By Carl Villis

Technical insights to Elizabeth Thompson’s The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras 1875

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Encompassing an empire

By Holly McGowan-Jackson

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

By Carl Villis

Illuminating: conservation of neon lights

By Trude Ellingsen

A scrap album worthy of a fancy dress

By Kate Douglas

La Petite, Evening Dress

By Danielle Whitfield, Susan van Wyk and Bronwyn Cosgrove

Picture perfect: Pictorialism and its processes

By Pip Morrison

Susanna Highmore by Joseph Highmore: a father’s perspective

By Carl Villis

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

By Raye Collins

Verso: revealing the secret life of paintings

By Laurie Benson & Michael Varcoe-Cocks

‘Unfolding’ Japanese screens

By Ruth Shervington

Beneath the surface: X-rays reveal a different story

By Raye Collins and Carl Villis

Fragile beauty: emu eggs in early Australian gold and silverware

By Marika Strohschnieder

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

By Raymonda Rajkowski

Conservator Insight: Japanese Modernism display systems

By Ruth Shervington

Art Journal

‘Le nostre done cornute’: dress and ornament in the Melbourne profile portrait

By Elisabetta Gnignera

A fresh profile: a new examination of the National Gallery of Victoria’s Renaissance Profile portrait of a lady

By Carl Villis

Conservation live: the John Herbert Public Conservation Project

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Unrolled: John Rogers Herbert and the monumental Moses in the National Gallery of Victoria

By Nancy Langham Hooper

The National Gallery of Victoria’s Virgin and Child, by a follower of Jan van Eyck: a continuing reassessment

By Carl Villis

The lives of a man’s eighteenth-century coat

By Paola Di Trocchio

Two insights into Auguste Rodin’s The thinker

By François Blanchetière and David Thurrowgood

The art of Frederick McCubbin: a view of his materials and technique

By Bridget Whitelaw, John Payne & Gillian Leahy

The Aspremont Psalter-Hours: the making of a manuscript

By Margaret Manion, Lyndsay Knowles & John Payne

Exploring a fifteenth-century garden: a restoration uncovers the past

By John Payne

Rembrandt etchings on oriental papers: papers in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

By Jacobus van Breda

Horses bathing in the sea by Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869–1958): A close examination

By Linda Waters

The Resurrection of The descent from the Cross : an early-sixteenth-century Antwerp panel is brought out of storage

By John Payne

Finding light in the shadows: the cleaning and restoration of Tiepolo’s The banquet of Cleopatra

By John Payne & Carl Villis

Veronese and friends: a technical examination of Nobleman between active and contemplative life

By John Payne

Framing Nicholas Caire, Fairy scene at the Landslip, Black’s Spur c. 1878

By Isobel Crombie, Angeletta Leggio & Holly McGowan-Jackson

A Brush with Fidelity: Three works by Eugène von Guérard

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

The Melbourne Finding of Moses: steps towards a new attribution

By Zoë Willis

Two New Attributions: a Tocqué and a Bellotto in Melbourne

By Carl Villis

Edgar Degas’s Portrait of a woman

By Ted Gott

Seeing into the past: an enquiry into the compositional development of Robert Dowling’s Tasmanian Aborigines

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Posts

Melbourne Now countdown – day 83

By Catherine Earley

Fashion and Fiction

By Danielle Whitfield

Moving out of muteness—a conversation with the artist

By Dianne Whittle

Q: How many Conservators does it take to replace a lightglobe?

By Dianne Whittle

Jack Meyer, Industrial Revolution

By Dianne Whittle

Plastics in Art: David McDiarmid. Part 3: Sydney Curtain

By Helen Casey

Framing Fancies: Lely’s portrait of Sir John Rous

By Holly McGowan-Jackson

The wonderful world of the Charles I and Henrietta Maria raised embroidery

By Kate Douglas

Digital in-fill for Turtle Soup

By Kate Douglas

The conservation of Kore (Acc.No. 1045A-D4).

By Marika Strohschnieder

Framing the Australian Impressionists in France

By MaryJo Lelyveld

Conservation live: the John Herbert Public Conservation Project

By Michael Varcoe-Cocks

Plastics in Art: David McDiarmid. Part 2: Thinking of You

By Sandi Mitchell

Compressing concerns with mid-century foam upholstery

By Suzi Shaw

Reflecting on the installation of Takahiro Iwasaki’s Reflection Model (Itsukushima)

By Suzi Shaw

X-raying Japanese armour: Exposing the secrets beneath

By Suzi Shaw

New for old – reframing a 17th century painting by David Teniers II

By Toby Miller

Plastics in Art: David McDiarmid. Part 1: Scientific Analysis.

By Trude Ellingsen

NGV Magazine

Issue 23 Jul-Aug 2020

Featuring:
Revealing Constance Stokes’s woman in green by Raye Collins (p.80)
Another side of Grace Crowley by Raye Collins and Beckett Rozentals (p.86)
The science of art: inside the NGV conservation team by Jess Lehmann (p.96)
Collaboration during COVID-19 by MaryJo Lelyveld (p.109)

Issue 22 May–Jun 2020

Featuring:
The gilded frame by MaryJo Lelyveld (p.19)
Textiles: finding the perfect match by Skye Firth (p.21)
The artists’ palette: pigments by Raye Collins (p.22)
Conservator insight: Korean screens by Ruth Shervington (p.35)
In her likeness by Jessica Lehmann (p.78)
Revelations through X-radiography by Trude Ellingsen (p.103)
Jewellery materiality by Trude Ellingsen (p.104)
Behind the scenes: preparation for a Japanese fan by an unknown maker by Ben Raynor (p.104)
Reframing Hugh Ramsay’s (interior of artists studio) by Jason King (p.105)

Issue 21 Mar–Apr 2020

Featuring:
Solving a conservation puzzle by Marika Strohschnieder (p.98)
In the frame (reframing Pissarro) by Holly McGowan-Jackson (p.99)

Issue 20 Jan–Feb 2020

Featuring:
Australian Framing Royalty: Lillie Williamson by Jessica Lehmann and Holly McGowan-Jackson (p.60)
The paper boy 1888, Florence Fuller by Michael Varcoe-Cocks (p.82)

Issue 19 Nov–Dec 2019

Featuring:
William Blake’s Virgil Wood engravings by Louise Wilson (p.45)
Pieta by Marika Strohschnieder (p.60)
Framing the archer by Holly McGowan-Jackson (p.67)
Reframing Louis Buvelot’s Mount Martha from Dromana’s Hill by Jason King (p.97)
Contemporary Art Conservation Research by Jessica Lehmann (p.97)

Issue 18 Sep–Oct 2019

Featuring:
Zaha Hadid: Wave Sofa by Suzi Shaw (p.50)
Fashionably pink [habit a la francais 18th century] by Danielle Whitfield and Skye Firth (p.86)
Anthony van Dyck: Philip Herbert 4th Earl of Pembroke c.1634 by Carl Villis (p.98)
The crown jewel replicas c.1936 by Marika Strohschnieder (p.97)
NGV workshop for the Getty Conservation Institute’s Preserving Collections in the age of sustainability course by MaryJo Lelyveld (p.98)

Issue 17 Jul–Aug 2019

Featuring:
Unfinished business by Carl Villis (p.84)

Featuring:
Australian framing royalty: Lillie Williamson by Holly McGowan-Jackson & Jessica Lehmann (p.66)

Secret Life of Art

Featuring:
Hidden behind the candlelight by Carl Villis (p.17)
Framing the Archer by Holly McGowan-Jackson (p.27)

Frederic McCubbin: The North Wind eBook

A conservation project undertaken by Michael Varcoe-Cocks with Raye Collins, Daryl Howard and MaryJo Lelyveld.

External reading

Why frames should be in the picture when you visit an art gallery

ABC News

Framing Perspectives: Frames Conservation and Reframing at the National Gallery of Victoria

AICCM Bulletin v.38, 2017, issue 2