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Fred Williams Infinite Horizons

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Patricia Piccinini

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Artists Of The Western Desert

This is essentially a book of portrait studies of more than 80 senior artists of the Western Desert art movement. Each stunning full-page portrait, reproduced in duotone, is accompanied on its opposite page by an example of the artists work. The photographers have made a number of journeys to significant Indigenous communities located west of Alice Springs and thence into the north of Western Australia these include: Haasts Bluff, Kintore, Papunya, and Yuendumu to name a few. The story of the numerous meetings with the artists, including opportunities to create their portraits and consolidate friendships, is included in the book.

How Aborigines Invented The Idea Of Contemporary Art: An Anthology Of Writing On Aboriginal Art 1980-2006

This is the first anthology to chronicle the global critical reception of Aboriginal art since the early 1980s, when the art world began to understand it as contemporary art. Featuring 96 authorsincluding art critics and historians, curators, art centre co-ordinators and managers, artists, anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and novelistsit conveys a diversity of thinking and approach.

Together with editor Ian McLeans substantial introductory essay and epilogue, this highly anticipated anthology argues for a reevaluation of Aboriginal arts critical intervention into contemporary art since its seduction of the art world a quarter-century ago.

Ian McLean is a well-known commentator on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australian art, and on the intersection of Indigenous and settler cultures. He is the author of The Art of Gordon Bennett and White Aborigines: Identity Politics in Australian Art. He is a member of the Advisory Council of Third Text, and Discipline Chair of Visual Arts at the University of Western Australia.

William Dobell: An Artist's Life

This high-quality, exquisitely produced book, is a celebration of the life and art of William Dobell, considered to be one of Australias greatest artists. Dobell was the first artist to win both the Wynne Prize for landscapes and the Archibald Prize for portraiture in the same year. But William Dobell was also a quintessential Aussie bloke more at home in the local pub with his mates than on the international stage. He also seemed to find controversy wherever he went, famously being sued by fellow competitors after winning the Archibald Prize in 1943. Lavishly illustrated with artworks, personal photographs and newspaper clippings, William Dobell paints a compelling portrait of both the man and the artist.

Face Australian Portraits 1880 1960

Featuring over 50 portraits by some 40 artists, this book takes a fresh look at Australian portraiture from the 1880s late colonial period to the mid 1960s and the move into abstraction. Face considers the international influences upon portrait painting in Australia, and the more distinctive turns that Australian portraiture has taken in its own right. Australian artists have often challenged the possibilities of portraiture, rejected the predictable & pushed boundaries in both their choice of subject & their painterly approach. Artists include Tom Roberts, George W. Lambert, Rupert Bunny, Margaret Preston, Grace Crowley, Napier Waller, Albert Tucker, Sidney Nolan, Russell Drysdale & John Brack.

Painting The Rocks The Loss Of Old Sydney

Against the backdrop of slum clearances, wharf rebuilding and debates about working-class living conditions, a group of artists set out to capture Old Sydney before it disappeared in the citys transition to a modern metropolis. The first decades of the 20th century saw countless buildings from our colonial past torn down and whole streets disappear as Sydneysiders embraced the march of progress. Remarkably, in the midst of this change a conservation movement began to arise. Giving voice to the people who worked and lived in The Rocks, this exhibition places the often romantic and sentimental 1902 artists paintings alongside the stark realities of government-commissioned photography, inspection reports and remodelling plans.

Brett Whiteley: A Sensual Line 1957-67

Kathie Sutherland's scrupulously researched and expertly written account of Brett Whiteley's formative decade, 1957 - 67, is essential reading for all who wish to better understand this charismatic artist and the development of his career. This beautifully designed and sumptuously illustrated volume, tempting to both eye and mind, is an exemplary tribute to this legendary Australian artist who died in 1992 after a creative life lived to the full. Sutherland's study focuses on the early abstract works produced in Sydney, and then extends to a comprehensive account of the phenomenal success that followed with Whiteley's transition to figuration after bursting onto the London art scene and creating his 'Bathroom' and 'Christie' series. She explains: 'I have written this book to show that Whiteley's early London opus, in particular, can stand alone as a testament to a prodigious talent and a unique artistic achievement. His professional success during this period was nothing short of meteoric. In less than two years - by March 1962 - this brash young artist could boast of representation in the Tate, Victoria and Albert museum and British contemporary art collections and, by 1964, in other national collections from Wellington to Washington.' The author has drawn on Whiteley's unpublished notebooks and all available sources to create a comprehensive catalogue raisonne of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures created during these years. She makes a powerful case for the undeniable fact that for Whiteley, 'the catalyst for change and progression was expatriation.'

William Creek and Beyond: Australian Artists Explore The Outback (2nd Edition)

Second edition of the book documenting ten artists who embarked on an artistic adventure from a camp based in the tiny settlement of William Creek, perched on the edge of barren Lake Eyre in South Australia. With their disparate styles, John Olsen, Tim Storrier, David Larwill, Robert Jacks, Rodney Pople, Mark Schaller, Jason Benjamin, Jeff Makin, Hazel Donney and Andrew Sibley, tackled one of the most spectacular landscapes on the planet.

Russell Drysdale

This definitive work on Russell Drysdale, in print for 26 years, has been redesigned with an elegant, spacious layout to make the paintings come alive for a new generation. More than 160 colour plates illustrate the work of this popular and significant Australian artist, making it an essential possession for art enthusiasts especially as the majority of Drysdale s work is held in private collections.

Fairweather

Scottish-born artist Ian Fairweather (1891-1974) is a giant amongst Australian painters. He is revered by fellow artists. Shaped by European modernism - post-impressionism and cubism - Fairweather was a recluse drawn to Asia. He lived in Shanghai and Peking in the 1930s, and along with his study of Chinese writing, developed a highly individual, distinctive linear style. His paintings are like no other - anywhere. To Robert Hughes he was 'a deeply spiritual artist' and 'one of the very few modern artists to make a convincing bridge between Eastern calligraphic traditions and Western drawings'. Fairweather's life was as unusual as his art, a solitary life of hardship and adventure, finally devoted to art.He lived for twenty years in a hut on Bribie Island, Queensland, allowing his life to wander through his work, where it expands like a Chinese line. Fairweather is an entirely new study on the artist. Murray Bail has unearthed newly discovered writings and letters, paintings and rare photographs, and has expanded and revised his views on the artist. With 233 reproductions, most in colour, many of paintings and drawings never seen in public, Fairweather is the definitive account of the life and art of this great painter.

Robert Dowling Tasmanian Son Of Empire

Robert Dowling (1827-1886) holds a special place in the history of Australian art as its first home-grown artist. His work shows great diversity, covering portraits of Australian colonial society, genre, Oriental and biblical subjects as well as important mid 19th C paintings of Tasmanian and Victorian aborigines.

Fairweather Man

Fairweather Man - An intimate portrait of the life and work of Australia's greatest abstract painter Ian Fairweather. When Ian died alone in Queensland in 1974 Australia not only lost a great artist but one of our greatest eccentrics. The reclusive, tortured and driven man left behind a great legacy, a great body of work and paintings that command huge prices at auction and hang in galleries around the world.

Artist Of Exceptional Talent 1943 2007

One of the most influential contributors to the understanding of ceramics in Australia, Alan Peascod was able to balance a rigorous research program with teaching and studio work. The form, decoration and colour of Peascod's work reflected his abiding interest in Islamic design structures. His characteristic forms also showcased his experimentation with glazes, particularly in relation to colour and surface quality. He investigated a variety of surface modifications, continually evolving his work and this resulted in visual density and the discovery of new ceramic technologies.

Before And After Science: 2010 Adelaide Biennial Of Australian Art

The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art is the pre-eminent survey of contemporary Australian art, providing an important snapshot of some of the most exciting new works being created in our country right now. This substantial catalogue takes the unprecedented approach of including not only critical essays, but poetic, philosophical and fictional responses to the works in the exhibition by international curators, artists, writers and commentators. Artists included: Hany Armanious, John Barbour, Mikala Dwyer, Simryn Gill, Martumili Artists, James Morrison, Callum Morton, Stuart Ringholt, Christian Ringholt, Justene Williams, among others.

For the Love of Nature: E. E. Gostelow's Birds and Flowers

Ebenezer Edward Gostelow (1866–1944) began his 50-year-long teaching career at the age of 15. He was a keen naturalist and took every opportunity to study the local plants and birds. Gostelow would liven up his blackboards with captivating chalk drawings of birds and flowers. Gostelow’s watercolours of the local flora are detailed and delicate. Many depict in minute detail the buds, flowers (often in cross-section), leaves and seeds. On each painting he has recorded common and scientific names, and places and dates of collection. He had an eye for composition, arranging the items in the painting exquisitely. For the Love of Nature presents a short biography, followed by a portfolio section of more than 80 images of birds and flowers.

Women Of Flowers

Renowned botanical artist Leonie Norton pays tribute to those who came before her in this beautiful full-colour book, illustrated with over 100 exquisite botanical paintings. Ten Australian women artists are showcased here, their lives and work dating from Mary Morton Allport (who moved from a refined English life to a bark humpy in Van Diemen’s Land in 1831) to Ida McComish (who travelled the Pacific with her botanist husband to collect, paint and record unique flora and died in 1978). The paintings are accompanied by biographical essays on each artist documenting their lives and their approach to art – all of them have been little known until now. This book has clearly been a labour of love, as shown in its stunning production values and depth of research.

Looking At Paintings: A Private View

This book draws together an eclectic and highly personal mix of painters: from Picasso to Carpaccio, from Cranach to Nolan. The connecting thread between these diverse works, which span six centuries, is international theatre director Richard Cottrell s fascination with the human story and an intense involvement with the human predicament.

I Blame Duchamp

'My musings on art could be described as a benign diatribe; one inspired by a genuine if watchful passion.'

In this sweeping collection of essays, Edmund Capon describes his lifelong fascination with art and the artists who, over centuries, have enlightened us and challenged the way we see the world. He shares his passion for topics as diverse as the art of China and the Renaissance Old Masters, talks of personal encounters with artists such as Henry Moore and Sidney Nolan, and tells the stories behind some of his controversial acquisitions as the long-time director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, including Cy Twombly's Three Studies from the Temeraire.

Driven by curiosity and his love of the unorthodox, Capon applies the same level of passion to his discussion of football as to the ideas of Confucius. He sharpens his wit on the contemporary art world, where conceptual art – much of it devoid of beauty (and sometimes a concept) – reigns supreme. For this, says Capon, Duchamp, and his infamous Fountain, are at least partly to blame.

Featuring more than fifty beautiful reproductions of paintings and drawings from collections around the world, this collection is a fascinating insight into the mind of the liveliest and most generous thinkers of our generation.

Tim Johnson Painting Ideas

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Arnold Shore Pioneer And Modernist

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Days Of Summer

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Menagerie Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture

Accompanying a major touring exhibition of the same name, this elegant publication highlights the richness and breadth of contemporary Indigenous sculpture in Australia through the innovative work of 33 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

All of the featured works are sculptural depictions of animals and are as diverse and dynamic in their materials and techniques as they are in their varied relationships to issues of place, identity, culture and survival.

The catalogue is edited by the exhibition’s co-curators Nicole Foreshew and Brian Parkes and both have written major essays for the publication. In addition, 22 specialist writers and curators have contributed revealing profiles on each of the individual artists.

The Psychology Of Trees

The Psychology of Trees is a collection of dramatically dark images by Jenny Bolis.

The viewer is invited to discover the mystery of female psychology, as we are drawn into a dreamstate of female intuition, architecture and the mythology of Trees. Photographed during twilight, the images possess a sense of magical surrealism.

Beautifully printed in rich blacks & dark greens on uncoated paper, this book has been shortlisted for the 2009 Fremantle Art Print Award Prize.

Jenny Bolis is a melbourne based Artist and Designer, Dr Daniel Palmer is a Senior Lecturer in the Theory of Art & Design at Monash University. Kate Rhodes is the Editor of Artichoke Magazine.

After Fire: A Biography of Clifton Pugh

Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1924, Clifton Pugh rose to prominence as a portrait and landscape painter, winning the Archibald Prize three times and an Order of Australia medal in 1985. After attending the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, and serving as a soldier in the Australian Imperial Forces in New Guinea and Japan during the 1940s, he moved to Cottles Bridge (near Hurstbridge) and established his bush property home called Dunmoochin. Here, his art was inspired by the natural beauty of the Australian landscape, and he in turn helped to establish local conservation and environmental groups in the area. Written in a sweeping, almost literary style, this detailed biography of Clifton Pugh is a landmark volume that offers an alternative perspective to the biography of Clifton’s widow, Judith Pugh’s Still Life (2008). Sally Morrison draws on archival research and interviews with Pugh’s family and friends to create a picture of a man damaged as much by love as by war in his personal life, and at the same time a bold and innovative artist and environmentalist.

Blood Language

Judy Watson is one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. Her art explores territory that includes the dispossessed Indigenous Australians with whom she shares a family history and heritage. Judy Watson’s art is intense and sublime in its physicality.

blood language is a beautifully illustrated pictorial exploration of some of Judy Watson’s seminal canvases, works on paper, sculptural projects and artist’s books. Judy Watson imparts the artist’s ideas and writer Louise Martin-Chew gives another insight into the artist’s practice.

Water, skin, poison, dust & blood, ochre, bones and driftnet are defining themes in an empathetic art that seeks to find a broader geography of belonging. Watson creates highly sophisticated works of beauty that are subtly political and intensely personal.

Judy Watson was born in Mundubbera, Queensland, in 1959. An inveterate traveller, she has lived in many parts of Australia and undertaken numerous overseas residencies. Watson has had solo exhibitions all over Australia and internationally. In 1997 she represented Australia at the Venice Biennale. She is a recipient of several major contemporary art awards including the Moët & Chandon Fellowship in 1995, the National Gallery of Victoria’s Clemenger Award in 2006 and, in the same year, the Work on Paper Award at the 23rd National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards. Major public art projects on high-profile sites have been undertaken by Watson, and in 2006 two of her works were permanently installed within the architectural fabric of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris.

Louise Martin-Chew is an arts writer who has worked in the visual arts industry for more than twenty years. She is a former editor of Art and Australia magazine and is now a regular contributor to The Australian and other national art magazines, catalogues and books. She was essayist for the 2008 Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships and co-writer of The Heart of Everything: The Art and Artists of Bentinck and Mornington Islands. She lives in Brisbane.

Performances: 1971 to 2008

Mike Parr is Australia’s most significant performance artist. His contribution to the development and establishment of performance art in Australia remains continuous and resolute. Parr’s dedication and research into the boundaries of performance art within the parameters of art history and theory are unprecedented. At the forefront of performance art in Australia in 1970, Parr explored areas far removed from mainstream visual culture at the time. Despite the contempt, he persevered, remaining true to his practice. This long awaited book pays homage to Parr’s achievements and is an essential admission into Australia’s cultural memory. Compiled by the artist, this first hand account includes an extraordinary array of photographic documentation together with performance scripts and the artist’s writings on his work, encapsulating the qualities that have made Mike Parr one of Australia’s greatest cultural assets on the world stage. Parr has performed in Switzerland, France, Austria, Italy, USA, Japan, The Philippines, Sweden and throughout Australia since 1973.

Art Of Australia: Volume One

"I have on my desk the printer's proof of Art of Australia. It is quite simply the most beautiful book I've ever been involved with. The text is marvellous - fascinating, compelling and definitive from Australia's pre-eminent art commentator - but it's the visual richness that makes this book EXTRAORDINARY." Jenny Zimmer, publisher.

Someone's Universe: The Art Of Eugene Carchesio

Someone's Universe: The Art of Eugene Carchesio is a focused survey of work by the leading Queensland contemporary artist, Eugene Carchesio. Known for his repeated use of particular images and patterns, his work has an overall sense of rhythm and composition which echoes his keen interest in music.

John Brack

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Lives Of The Papunya Tula Artists

Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists by Vivien Johnson presents, as never before, the biographies of over 200 Western Desert painters from the world-acclaimed Papunya Tula Artists company in Alice Springs. Established in 1972 as a co-operative of 35 painters, Papunya Tula Artists is the founding crucible of the stunning Australian desert painting movement. Today the company flourishes as a multi-million dollar Aboriginal-controlled cultural enterprise. As art writer Nicolas Rothwell observed earlier this year, the desert paintings need to be seen as the works of “…artists with biographies, with life histories and personal challenges surrounding them.” This book uniquely answers this call – the artists come to life as painters with distinctive personalities, family histories, imaginations and artistic trajectories.

Rosalie Gascoigne

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New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art

For more than 40 years leading businessman Pat Corrigan has been one of Australia’s largest and most significant arts benefactors. A strong supporter of the innovative and of living artists, post-2000 Pat turned his eye towards Aboriginal art. The vibrancy of the art and the lives of the artists appealed – so a new collection was started. In New Beginnings, Pat Corrigan and his family reveal some of the works from this collection.

New Beginnings highlights new paintings that rank amongst the contemporary masterpieces of Australian art. They include the modern masters of the Western Desert and the Kimberley – artists such as Tommy Watson, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Naata Nungurrayi, Makinti Napanangka, Patju Presley, George Tjungurrayi, Eubena Nampitjin and Wingu Tingima, as well as a large range of other equally powerful paintings by both established and emerging artists.

With essays on the artists by writer and curator Emily McCulloch Childs, a moving essay by University of Sydney Professor of Contemporary Art, Ross Gibson, and a preface by Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Museum of Australia, Margo Neale, the sumptuous New Beginnings also relates some of the story of Australian Aboriginal art – at once highly contemporary and equally ancient.

When You Think About Art: Ewing And George Paton Gallery 1971-2008

A history of Melbourne’s iconic Ewing and George Paton Gallery. The title is taken from the first of the Ewing Gallery’s famous Ideas Shows. ‘The Letter Show,’ July 1974, asked artists and others to respond to the question, ‘When you think about art, what do you think?’

Responses included a printout of Stelarc’s brainwaves as he meditated on this question in a laboratory in Japan. Thirty-four years later the same question has been put to over 300 artists and writers, most of whom have been involved with the gallery over the years.

Destiny Deacon Walk And Dont Look Blak

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Brook Andrew Theme Park

Brook Andrew is an Indigenous Melbourne-based artist who works with neon, installation, photo-media, mixed-media, performance and video. Andrew challenges cultural and historical perception, using text and image to comment on local and global issues regarding race, consumerism and history. This book is centred on Brook Andrews transformation of an entire European Museum in into a remarkable and at times uncomfortable theme park, a spectacle of objects, sounds and images, rich with irony and humour. The museum is the AAMU in Utrecht and it entirely given over to Andrews Theme Park for six months until mid-2009. In the exhibition Andrew plays with perceptions of racial identity as he explores history, colonialism and Aboriginal cultures, placing nineteenth-century depictions of Australia alongside large inflatable clowns, Aboriginal sculptures, kitsch souvenirs and neon. The motifs of the Wiradjuri, his mothers people from New South Wales, surface on objects throughout this exhibition. They can be seen on his inflatable clowns and on shields, clubs and boomerangs borrowed from European musuems for this exhibition. More than sixty pages of colour reproductions are accompanied by substantial texts by curator Georges Petitjean, Aboriginal activist Marcia Langton, art historians Anthony Gardner and Georges Petitjean, and a recorded conversation between Brook Andrew and Maria Hlavajova.

Cross Currents: Focus On Contemporary Australian Art

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Contemporary Australia: Optimism

More than 60 contemporary Australian artists feature in this publication produced for ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’, the first in a major new national triennial series of thematic Australian art exhibitions. It explores the rich and complex territory of the possible in Australian life and culture. The artists in ‘Optimism’ respond with energy, passion, colour, humour and irreverence. This publication — encompassing painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, video, cinema, animation, music and comedy — includes engaging essays by John Birmingham, Elissa Down and Melissa Lucashenko.

Redback Graphix

Redback Graphix will bowl readers over with colour and edgy social comment. From 1979-94 design and screen printing studio Redback Graphix produced posters that combined witty graphics with eye-watering colours to give voice to a raft of pressing social issues from AIDS awareness and alcohol abuse to the promotion of local films and music gigs. Originally designed for the street, these posters are now considered icons of an era and are highly sought after.

Rick Amor

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Written In The Land: The Life Of Queenie Mckenzie

This beautifully produced book tells the story of Queenie McKenzie, a remarkable indigenous woman from the remote East Kimberley in Western Australia. Now deceased, Queenie was an important cultural leader, revered Aboriginal Law person and internationally acclaimed artist. Written in the Land: The Life of Queenie McKenzie explores her personal story and that of her ‘country’ through her own words and stunning images, including those of her art. Queenie used her artistic works to teach others about her vibrant culture and her life, and as a way to inspire interest in the special and dynamic relationship her people have with the land. The social history of Queenie’s community and their relationship with the Argyle mine is also documented in this book Queenie is one of Australia’s most collectable Aboriginal contemporary artists. Her style is defined by her unique use of ochres, particularly the rare pink tones that she developed herself. Queenie’s magnificent artworks are held in the collections of many public galleries worldwide.

Papunya: A Place Made After the Story, the Beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement

In 1971, a hopeful, young art teacher drove the long, lonely road from Alice Springs to the Aboriginal outpost settlement at Papunya. His name was Geoffrey Bardon. Eighteen months later, he left Papunya, defeated by a hostile white authority. But his legacy was the beginnings of the Western Desert Painting Movement.

Fiona Hall

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Tim Maguire

Tim Maguire paints images of overwhelming beauty. Frequently cinematic in scale and distinctive for their rich colouration and technical skill, his works hover between realism and abstraction. The enormous scale of his still-life paintings make them simultaneously alluring and disorientating, and once captured, the viewer is drawn to the painted surface where layers of pure colour erupt. Maguire’s work is embedded in the traditions of painting while also engaging with the contemporary world.

Writing about Maguire’s painting is Tony Godfrey, renowned author of Conceptual Art and Painting Today (two Phaidon Press titles). Godfrey focuses on Maguire’s exploration of light, his depiction of the metaphorical ‘skin’ of the painted surface and his preparedness to confront our perceptions of the role of beauty in contemporary art.

Jonathan Watkins, Director of Britain’s Ikon Gallery and former Director of the Biennale of Sydney, interviews Maguire, discussing his practice and processes, including his use of digital technology.

Cate Blanchett’s foreword describes Maguire’s painting “unabashedly revelling in its own beauty yet charged with the promise of death and decay” as well as “the beguiling eroticism of a Maguire painting’s surface”.

Tim Maguire presents the substance and texture of a career spanning twenty-five years, providing an opportunity to appreciate a body of work that is compelling and unique.

Tracey Moffatt Between Dreams And Reality

Making art is quite therapeutic, Tracey Moffatt once said of herself. This brief statement reveals much of the artist’s personality and above all about her manner of interpreting the artistic experience, a practice that frequently refers to her personal episodes and events. An Aborigine by birth, Tracey Moffatt grew up as a foster child in a white family in line with the policy of the time, and she quickly became fascinated by the pop culture of those years.

The Australian artist Tracey Moffatt (born Brisbane, 1960) does not take photographs but creates them. Her work incorporates a host of cinematic elements from designing sets and lighting, to placing actors and instructing technicians, in order to produce single images which – although isolated – are always part of a ’story’, fragments of a whole narrative..

Images drawn from magazines, cinema and television began to form the symbolic universe that would become a point of reference in most of her work, alongside the ever-present and in part autobiographical theme of ostracism and segregation experienced in all its aspects: racial, social, sexual.

Utopia The Genius Of Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of the most important abstract painters of the 20th century and one of the most significant artists that Australia has ever produced. Emily’s strikingly modern and beautifully innovative works, created in an environment far away from the influence of the Western Art tradition, have been featured in over 100 exhibitions in the last decade and are housed in collections all over the world. This book has been published to support a major international exhibition, presented by the National Museum of Australia, that opened in Japan in 2007 and travels to Australia this year. Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye features over 120 works drawn from private, public and corporate collections around the world, telling the story of Emily Kame Kngwarreye as one of Australia’s greatest contemporary artists, and also giving some insight into her life as a senior Anmatyerre woman and a lifelong custodian of the desert country that inspired her work.

Julie Rrap: Body Double

Victoria Lynn explores the persona of the ‘trickster’ in Rrap’s work and the theme of the ‘body double’ in her photography, sculpture and installations.