Art Books
Click here for a selection of art books published by or associated with Bandicoot Publishing. All are available for purchase.
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Expanded Painting: Ontological Aesthetics and the Essence of Colour
Mark Titmarsh explores the relevance of painting in contemporary art practice amid new age media such as performance, photography, sculpture, installation and digital technology.
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Richard Blackwell: Monograph 2009-2018
Richard Blackwell explores material, concept and design, finding commonalities across technologies and architectures in built environments through a network of objects and geometric forms.
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Elizabeth Day: Discontinued Narratives
The interdisciplinary practice of Sydney-based, UK-born artist Elizabeth Day centres on issues of mental health, migration, feminism, ecology, social justice and Australian colonial history.
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Julia Ritson: Grid Paintings 25 Years
This book celebrates the oeuvre of Julia Ritson, who has been practicing the art of grid painting for 25 years. Texts by Hanna B Higgins, John Wardle and Joseph Brennan are followed by a visual spread of the artist's mesmerising works.
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Carine Thévenau: Seasonal Abandonment of Imaginary Worlds
A limited edition publication that features 32 colour photographs by Mauritian-Australian artist Carine Thévenau documenting deserted playgrounds in rural Japan – many of which are relics of the 1980s financial boom.
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Hilarie Mais
This lavishly illustrated catalogue complements Hilarie Mais; current touring exhibition, first held at Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in 2017. It traces the artist's five-decade career and her continual reinvention of the grid.
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Dale Harding: Body of Objects
Dale Harding employs diverse techniques and traditions to explore the socio-political histories and contemporary realities of his family and people in 'Body of Objects'; includes a selection of images from Harding's studio and exhibitions.
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Gareth Sansom: Transformer
Gareth Sansom's watercolours, collages and paintings are based on a personal iconography that includes imagery of a sexual, satirical and philosophical nature. Over 130 of these artworks, spanning the course of Sansom's 60-year career, illustrate the pages of this catalogue.
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Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits
The story of Australian cinema is reinterpreted in this catalogue, which accompanied an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in collaboration with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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From This Place: Stories of Inspiring Women Artists Upper Yarra Valley
Photographer Angela Rivas and writer Lindy Schneider poignantly capture the lives of female artists working in the Upper Yarra Valley.
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Spirit Lines
‘When I was a child in solitude with my pencils and crayons and scraps of paper I felt that I was drawing the world together’ – Sylvia Convey’s reflection in the opening pages of ‘Spirit Lines’, a book documenting the graphic outsider art of Sylvia and Tony Convey.
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