Book Reviews
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Parragirls
‘Parragirls’ leads the reader on a journey back to the Parramatta Girls Home, a child-welfare institution for neglected young children and delinquent adolescents.
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Kulinmaya! Keep listening, everybody!
‘Kulinmaya!’ by artist Mumu Mike Williams charts his life experiences, art practice, Tjukurpa Law and engagement with the land rights movement in the APY lands of Central Australia.
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Return Flight MEL>HKG
‘Return Flight MEL>HKG’ documents the blind collaborative process between 20 artists and writers from Melbourne and Hong Kong.
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Queen’s Land Blak Portraiture: Late 19th Century to the Present
'Queen's Land Blak Portraiture: Late 19th Century to the Present' considers the social, political, economic and cultural conditions, past and present, concerning portraiture and Indigenous identity.
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Hannah Quinlivan
This monograph presents a detailed archive of artist Hannah Quinlivan's exhibitions and performance works from 2011-2018.
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God in Reverse: Art, Architecture and Consciousness: Richard Goodwin
In this title artist, architect and urban activist Richard Goodwin has produced an unorthodox monograph of an ongoing 42 years of practice.
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On Artists
In 'On Artists', Ashleigh Wilson asks 'how much weight should we give to the life when decoding the mysteries of the art?'
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Suburban Baroque: David Wadelton
Melbourne-based photographer David Waddleton presents a new series of photographic works in 'Suburban Baroque'.
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The girl and the boy with working harbour: James Drinkwater
Drawings, the substrate of James Drinkwater's layered practice, are introduced with a bombastic and sensuous poem by the artist in this publication.
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Portraits Destroyed: Power, ego and history’s vandals
Julie Cotter’s subsequent vignettes in ‘Portraits Destroyed’ explore the weight of the genre, how it can deify and also send the ‘wrong’ message about a person.
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Tom Polo Paris Drawings: The Most Elaborate Disguise
‘Paris Drawings: The Most Elaborate Disguise’ reveals Tom Polo’s distinct, and somewhat peculiar approach to drawing, painting and the portrait.
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Mirka Mora: A Life Making Art
Sabine Cotte shares the creative processes of artist Mirka Mora, a Melbourne icon who over the course of her career produced hundreds of artworks.
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