Stories
- Article
Performance art, frozen in time
For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.
- Article
The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
- Photo story
Alopecia in men
Men break their silence about total hair loss in these intimate portraits and interviews by Orlando Gili.
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Mary Bishop and the surveillant gaze
Writer and artist Rose Ruane explores the paintings of Mary Bishop, created during a 30-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, which speak of constant medical surveillance and censorious self-examination.
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- Archives and manuscripts
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Blindfolded nude in boat with eyes and snakes
Date: 1980sReference: SA/MAR/307Part of: Migraine Art Competition Collection- Pictures
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Two gay men in an art gallery looking at a painting of a female nude. Colour process print after Caport, 195-.
Caport.Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]Reference: 2059359iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Digital Images
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J. Bate, The mysteries of nature and art in
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A woman posing naked outdoors, standing in a woodland glade. Stereo photograph, c.1900.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 530297iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
A woman posing naked outdoors, leaning on a tree in a woodland glade. Stereo photograph, c.1900.
Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 530299iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.