Master of Stillness: Jeffrey Smart by Barry Pearce
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
This title illuminates the vision of the most celebrated of Australian expatriate artists, from his beginnings in Adelaide until his last major composition painted in Italy, where he died in 2013. Smart's vision searches for stillness amid industrial change. This can be seen here with a selection of man ...Show more
Cressida Campbell by National Gallery of Australia
$99.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Cressida Campbell celebrates the career of an exceptional Australian colourist who has worked between painting and printmaking for over forty years. Combining keen observation with formal design, Campbell uses an innovative technique to create woodblock paintings and unique woodcut prints that take dire ...Show more
Creature: Paintings, Drawings and Reflections (HB) by Shaun Tan
$64.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
A collection of Shaun Tan’s artwork from the past 25 years.The drawings and paintings in the book come from his work in picture books and other works including films and graphic novels. Others were created for no specific purpose beyond the desire to see what something looks like, or just to follow a sk ...Show more
The present moment: The art of Clarice Beckett by Tracey Lock
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Admired for her distinctive ethereal paintings of incidental scenes The Present Moment: The Art of Clarice Beckett sheds new light on the artist's spiritual impulses. It provides the reader with an outline of the international cultural trends that inspired her practice and shaped her visions of nature. ...Show more
Decade: Wyndham Art Gallery 2011-21 by Wyndham Art Gallery
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Decade- 2011-2021 is an in-depth look at the first ten years of unexpected exhibition programming at the Wyndham Art GalleryDecade- 2011-2021 is an in-depth look at the first ten years of unexpected exhibition programming at the Wyndham Art Gallery in the City of Wyndham. Exhibitions are represented wit ...Show more
Margo Lewers: No Limits (Australian Artist) by TANYA CROTHERS
$89.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
20th century modernist artist Margo Lewers (1908-1978) refused to be constrained by the traditional roles of women as wives and mothers. While embracing the technological and social advances of a new era, she also challenged the convention of art as representation, believing that creativity required the ...Show more
2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State by Sebastian Goldspink; Liang Luscombe (Contribution by); Patrice Sharkey (Contribution by); Léuli Eshraghi (Contribution by); Bradley Vincent (Contribution by); Holly Childs (Contribution by)
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Free/State assembles a group of artists who are fearless; the provocateurs, vanguards and outsiders - challenging histories and art forms, and in the process, offering reflections on an era of multi-faceted global upheaval. The book explores ideas of transcending states, from the spiritual and artistic ...Show more
WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture by Sophie Gerhard, Joanna Gilmour, Penelope Grist, David Hurlston, Hannah Presley, Beckett Rozentals
$69.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
WHO ARE YOU: Australian Portraiture is one of the most comprehensive explorations of portraiture undertaken in Australia. Drawn from the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (NGV), and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (NPG), the artworks span disciplines and chronologies, ch ...Show more
The Stranger Artist: Life at the edge of Kimberley painting by Quentin Sprague
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
At a hinge-point in his life, artist and ex-gallerist Tony Oliver travelled to the East Kimberley, where he plunged into the crosscurrents and eddies of the Aboriginal art world. He would stay for almost a decade, working alongside a group of senior Gija artists, including acclaimed figures Paddy Bedfor ...Show more
Spowers & Syme by National Gallery of Australia
$39.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Spowers & Syme celebrates the artistic friendship of Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme. Their prints, drawings and paintings - remarkable for their expressive energy - capture the zeitgeist of the interwar years.
Free Fall by Ben Quilty
$60.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
'This series, titled "Free Fall", was heavily influenced by American realist George Bellows' early 20th-century boxing series. Where Bellows looked to boxing, the premier bloodsport of his age, Quilty has turned to the modern phenomenon of the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC). Looking back on Quil ...Show more
Jeffrey Smart by National Gallery of Australia
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
The year 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of Australian artist Jeffrey Smart, an artist with a distinctive vision whose work enables us to see the world around us afresh. This publication celebrates and commemorates this significant anniversary. Launched to coincide with a major exhibition of Smart ...Show more