Steve Dow is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based arts writer, whose profiles, essays, previews and reviews range across the visual arts, theatre, film and television for The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia, The Monthly, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Sunday Life, Limelight and VAULT.

The stories behind three Archibald Prize portraits
How do you choose who to paint, and why? Three Archibald Prize finalists discuss the people behind their 2020 portraits.