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Plumes and Pearlshells
The art of the New Guinea Highlands claims pride of place in this book based on Stanley Gordon Moriarty’s private collection, assembled from his travels in the highlands in the 1960s and 70s. The elaborate plumes and incandescence pearlshells that inspired the title set a tone of ceremonial flair that permeates the book. The book […]
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Theatre of dreams, theatre of play: Nõ and kyõgen in Japan
Get lost in the intricate narratives and flights of fancy of nõ and kyõgen theatre as curator at the Art Gallery of NSW Khanh Trinh investigates Japan’s oldest art form. The book follows a cultural tradition that is synonymous with wonder and Japanese legend, its history spans over 600 years. The book includes 160 works […]
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What is the essence of a live act? Setting a tone of curious enquiry Anne Marsh introduces her book with thought-provoking questions that navigate the ephemeral medium of performance art, and the critical dialogues that debate its changing nature. Focussing on case studies that are primarily Australian and post-1990, each chapter reveals key themes from […]
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The Sculpture of Nola Jones
Follow Nola Jones’ impressive artistic journey over four decades, from weaving to her abstract geometric and totemic sculptures.
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Gao Rong
Gao Rong takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary. In banal moments of the everyday she sees a deeper significance.
Hermannsburg Potters: Aranda Artists of Central Australia
At Hermannsburg, the Aranda potters have established a modern, vibrant and highly original form of ceramic art that draws on many influences, while strongly reflecting the distinctive visual culture of the region. With tales of its establishment, this well-illustrated book gives the reader an engaging insight into this creative indigenous community. Author Jennifer Isaacs, who […]
Stan Hopewell: Facing the Stars
Ted Snell weaves an interesting story and takes us through Hopewell’s creative journey. Coming to art later in his life, Hopewell was seen as an ‘outsider artist’. He managed to garner the interest of a select few important supporters, and his idiosyncratic and heartfelt work celebrates all that he learned and experienced; life’s joys, travails […]
David Rankin: The New York Years
The book makes an in-depth study of Rankin’s early years in native Australia, followed by his move to the Big Apple. Written by Dore Ashton, the esteemed New York art historian and critic, this book gives a detailed insight into key developments and themes in the career of this diverse artist, who works across a […]
The Art Spirit
Henri was an influential and inspiring American art teacher and painter in the early 20th century until his death in 1929. He was one of the first people to spread in a broad way the news of the great French painters and initially the Impressionists to America. He later sought to create a new realism […]
The Dealer is the Devil
Part road trip, part memoir, part history, part political commentary, The Dealer is the Devil is a thought-provoking look at what goes on behind the scenes of the art industry. The book is a page turner and often reveals exciting and racy accounts of the fluctuating fortunes and exponential success of the Aboriginal art movement, […]
Emily Floyd
Be it sculpture, print or public artwork, Floyd’s bright palette, expertly rendered geometric forms and the incorporation of text invite interaction.
Tony Lloyd
Tony Lloyd’s latest exhibition surveys a determined practice that explores the landscape, and the human reaction with it
Encountering Gallipoli
Despite its geographical distance from Australia, Gallipoli holds great relevance and connection to contemporary Australian history. Linked by personal stories and histories to the battles at Gallipoli, each of the 16 artists journeyed to Turkey to explore and respond to the immediate and historical landscape.
PULSE: Reflections on the body
PULSE: Reflections on the body, is a Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) project curated by Mark Bayly.
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Seven Walks Cape Leeuwin to Bundeena
SYDNEY ARTIST and city dweller Tom Carment has produced a book with photographer Michael Wee that chronicles his recent travels to remote parts of Australia
The Rothschild Prayerbook
KERRY STOKES RECENTLY made worldwide headlines with the purchase of the world’s most expensive book, the Rothschild Prayerbook.
Issue 29 | Sneak Peek
Internationally renowned Chuck Close is our cover feature – we speak with him from New York ahead of a survey exhibition at the MCA.
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Issue 28
A Melbourne Art Fair Special Edition, the issue is packed with program and exhibition highlights about the big event. On the cover is Melbourne-based Emily Floyd who talks us through her studio practice and what influences her large scale installation works ahead of a survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. NEWS Open […]
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Rick Amor
This month Rick Amor exhibits his work in Brisbane, be transported to the evocative world of one of the country’s most prominent figurative painters.
Max Berry – ‘The Inwardness of Place’
In his latest collection of work, Berry presents place as something shaped by a person’s movement and affective counters within it.
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Arthur Boyd: Agony and Ecstacy
The new exhibition, Arthur Boyd: agony and ecstasy, at the National Gallery of Australia Canberra is a major showcase of Boyd’s art including more than 100 works across diverse media: paintings, prints, drawings, ceramic tiles and sculptures, and tapestries. The focus is on Boyd as an intense poetic visionary who was capable of plumbing the depths […]
Pop to Popism
The Art Gallery of New South Wales has brought Pop in all its dynamic shocks and variations starting this November.
Sophia Hewson
Sophie Hewson presents her latest body of work Delivered, works that centres in on the idea of ‘faith not found’.
The winners of the 2014 Moran Art Prizes are revealed
Winners of the 2014 Moran Art Prizes, artist Louise Hearman and photographer Suzanne McCorkell compelled judges with their illuminating works.
