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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Tokyo is Yours: Meg Hewitt
'It is a quest to explore the layers between things, memories, human connection, fear and escapism through the fantasy and metaphor I find in reality,' remarks the Meg Hewitt.
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Gordon Hookey: Summoning Time. Painting & Politikill Transition in the MURRILAND!
Gordon Hookey’s MURRILAND! (2015-ongoing), is a monumental series of 10-metre long canvases that capture the history of Queensland and the country’s still-prevalent narrative of dispossession from an Indigenous view point.
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Bronwyn Oliver: Strange Things
This long awaited and thoughtful monograph is supported by dedicated research to provide both an art historical and personal window into the life and work of Bronwyn Oliver (1959-2006).
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Sera Waters: Domestic Arts
This diminutive title belies the breadth of human history and years of dedicated practice surveyed within. ‘Domestic Arts’ unpicks Sera Waters’ show presented earlier this year at ACE Open.
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Jeremy Kirwan-Ward: You Can See It From Here
Richly illustrated ‘You Can See It From Here’ offers an opportunity for a cumulative examination of Jeremy Kirwan-Ward’s five decades of practice, with essays by John Barrett-Lennard and Margaret Moore.
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Collecting For The Nation: The Australiana Fund
‘Collecting for the Nation’ details these works – from ceramic cockatoos and hand-painted porcelain to stylish silverware and historic paintings – and the architectural development of each house along with the people who lived in them.
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Brave New World: Australia 1930s
‘Brave New World: Australia 1930s’ presents a timeline of the era across a thematic layout of more than 200 pages, essays, colour reproductions and photographs.
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Stephen Ormandy: Only Dancing
Fifteen years of Stephan Ormandy’s practice is surveyed in Formist’s latest publication. With the first two-thirds of the book devoted to a stream of his colourful, geometric paintings, the title comes to a close with an essay by Lilly Wei.
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Elisabeth Cummings
Now considered in the prime of her painting life after a ‘slow burn’ of some 50 years this monograph is a dedicated showcase of Elisabeth Cummings' ‘visually exciting’ paintings that oscillate between abstraction and representation of the motif.
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Indigenous Archives: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal Art
‘Indigenous Archives’ assembles 18 essays that investigate ‘the archive’ as a struggle with the advent of colonisation, the unusual ways we can use accounts and how they can be empowering or readdressed in visual art.
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The Pacific Room
Set in an evocative tropical landscape haunted by the lives and spirits which drift across it, 'The Pacific Room' by Michael Fitzgerald is both a love letter to Samoa and a lush and tender exploration of artistic creation, of secret passions and merging dualities.
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Shane Pickett: Meeyakba
This monograph charts Shane Pickett's development from detailed landscapes influenced by Albert Namatjira to a highly expressive form of gestural abstraction; in an era of contested land and civil rights and the constitutional referendum of 1967.
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