Ian
North: art/work/words traces the career of New Zealand-born, Adelaide-based
artist, curator and writer, Ian North. Edited by Maria Zagala, Associate
Curator of Prints and Photographs at the Art Gallery of South, the book
features essays by ten leading academics, curators and writers - Pedro de
Almeida, Peter Beilharz, Helen Ennis, Lloyd Jones, Tracey Lock, Joanna
Mendelssohn, Daniel Palmer, Leigh Robb, Cathy Speck and Daniel Thomas.

The
book offers an overview and assessment of Ian North’s wide-ranging career,
highlighting his significant work in photography from the 1970s to the
present day, and his contribution to Australian museum practice as a curator
at the Art Gallery of South Australia (1971-80) and the National Gallery of
Australia (1980-84). The book reprints four key essays by North including
Expanse: Aboriginalities, spatialities and the politics of ecstasy (1998).