There’s a water hole, down by the creek, a hiatus in a once-flowing river, hidden behind the dense bracken and wild blackberries, peeping through the razor-edged bandy wallop.

In 1943, William Dobell won the Archibald Prize for the best portrait of friend and fellow artist, Joshua Smith. After Dobell won, he was taken to court, claiming that the painting was a caricature rather than a portrait. The subsequent court case profoundly affected both men for the rest of their lives.  

Today, with the benefit of the internet and breakthroughs in science and technology, we have much greater access to tools and information with which to discover and analyse the past, helping us to constantly question our interpretation of events and re-examine our viewpoints.