Book Reviews
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Papunya: A place made after the story
'Papunya: A Place made after the story' recounts Geoffrey Bardon's journey as a teacher in Papunya, Alice Springs in 1971 – where his profound experiences with Aboriginal culture and storytelling began.
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Home Port: Gavin Fry
Through text and illustration 'Home Port' reveals what inspires Gavin Fry's practice and his connection with the places and subjects that he paints.
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Peter Boggs: Transfigured Realities
The works of figurative painter Peter Boggs favour the silence of deserted towns and landscapes, and empty rooms rendered in prevailing browns, pale olive greens and ochres, complemented by filtered light, shadows and geometrical precision.
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A Painted Landscape: Across Australia from Bush to Coast
'A Painted landscape' showcases the work of 50 living painters from multicultural backgrounds who depict this expansive and diverse country.
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Linda Jackson’s Rainbow Menagerie
Linda Jackson's 'Rainbow Menagerie' catalogues the facts and idiosyncrasies of our native animals, reptiles and birds against a psychedelic landscape of neon colours.
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William Robinson: A new perspective
This new title from Nick Earls on artist William Robinson frames the 81-year-old painter's story with tender reflections from the horse's mouth; 'Life teaches you how to be an artist,' he says.
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Ken Unsworth
Anthony Bond and leading Australian art historians and curators reconstruct a timeline of the practice of contemporary Australian artist, Ken Unsworth; from its origins in 1955, spanning six decades to the present.
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David Griggs: Between Nature and Sin
‘Man, so what do you want to know?’ sparks a conversation between artist David Griggs and Michael Dagostino introducing this survey of 12 years in Manila.
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Arryn Snowball: Selected Works
Arryn Snowball’s fragile forms are suspended in the space of the canvas, print or screen, poised between and reliant upon opposed states in an incidental play of shadows and depth on a surface.
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Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour
Colour illuminates our surroundings, it is a form of expression and symbolic. David Coles, author of ‘Chromatopia’ and founder of Langridge Artist Colours has dedicated his life’s work to the creation of unique oil paints for artists.
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Thoughtlines: The Art of Ruark Lewis 1982-2014
Ruark Lewis is a writer and artist whose work ignites new ways of thinking about the world through art, investigation and social engagement.
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Kate Ballis: Infra Realism
Palm Springs was a familiar but tired muse to Kate Ballis who converted a digital camera for infrared, to see it in a new light. In her book we experience the land through a new lens.
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