Son of the Brush: A memoir by Tim Olsen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
A frank and revealing memoir by the son of Australia's greatest living painter. Tim Olsen is the son of arguably Australia's most famous living painter, John Olsen. Son of the Brush is his fascinating, candid memoir of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of artistic genius, with all its wonder, ex ...Show more
Jon Molvig: Maverick by Queensland Art Gallery
$55.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Jon Molvig (1923-70) settled in his adopted Brisbane in 1955 and dominated the city's art scene into the late 1960s. A volatile and rebellious character, Molvig was also a charismatic teacher whose uncompromising commitment to painting inspired a group of young artists. Jon Molvig: Maverick will acknow ...Show more
Nora Heysen: A Portrait by Anne-Louise Willoughby
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
Hahndorf artist Nora Heysen was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and Australia's first female painter to be appointed as an official war artist. A portraitist and a flower painter, Nora Heysen's life was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw and paint. In 1989, aged 78, Nora re-emerged on ...Show more
Ben Quilty by Ben Quilty
$130.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art | Reading Level: 4 non fiction
Ben Quilty has worked across a range of media including drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and film. His works often respond to social and political events, from the current global refugee crisis to the complex social history of Australia; he is constantly critiquing notions of identity, patr ...Show more
Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing by Ashleigh Wilson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art | Reading Level: very good
When he died in 1992 Brett Whiteley left behind decades of ceaseless activity - some works bound to a particular place or time, others that are masterpieces of light and line. Whiteley had arrived in Europe in 1960 determined to make an impression. Before long he was the youngest artist to have work acq ...Show more
Tales from the Inner City (Special Edition) by Shaun Tan
$150.00 AUD
Category: Australian Art
A stunning limited edition gift box featuring a special hardback of Tales from the Inner City and a limited edition print signed by Shaun Tan. This very special gift box includes a special hardback edition of Tales From the Inner City and an exclusive limited edition signed and numbered print of 'Blue ...Show more
Artists' Homes - Live/Work Spaces for Modern Makers by Tom Harford-Thompson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
In this beautifully illustrated book, writer and photographer Tom Harford-Thompson presents individual, eccentric homes and workspaces, from a music producer's studio to an ecowarrior's treehouse. His evocative photographs show how our life/work spaces, whether a tumbledown cottage, a country farmhouse, ...Show more
Del Kathryn Barton by Julie Ewington
$79.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
The first major text devoted to Del Kathryn Barton's work offers a portrait of a rich and multi-dimensional life informed by a deeply ingrained sense of an abundant natural realm. Barton's work is celebrated for its frank sexual assertiveness and for her imagined landscapes inhabited by myriad humans an ...Show more
Whiteley on Trial by Gabriella Coslovich
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
It was a cause cel bre- the biggest case of alleged art fraud to come before the Australian criminal justice system, a $4.5 million sting drawing in one of the country's most gifted and ultimately tragic artists, Brett Whiteley, a heroin addict who died alone in 1992.It started with suspicions raised ab ...Show more
Culture Heist: Art versus Money by Judith White
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Art
A much-loved cultural institution facing a cost-cutting government, a board dominated by the big end of town, and a management fixated on an ambitious building project. It's a true story. Culture Heist lifts the veil on what goes on at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Judith White worked there for 12 ...Show more