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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Christian Thompson: Ritual Intimacy
This book discusses Christian Thompson’s recent exhibition ‘Ritual Intimacy’ and the breadth of his practice, both in the media he employs and in the works he has made for Australian and European contexts.
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Parallel Realities: The Development of Performance Art in Australia
'Parallel Realities’ presents the expansive and complex history of performance art in Australia from the 1950s to today arguing that our development was shaped by theatre, avant- garde individuals, music, travel, political identity and a reaction against static notions of nationhood.
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Running the City: Why Public Art Matters
Place making and inhabitation, Felicity Fenner’s current curatorial research interests, are the focus of this title which should intrigue artists, the public and policy leaders. ‘Running the City’ presents a new way to think about ‘home’ and the paths we cut day-to-day.
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Eliza Hutchison: Family Photos
Eliza Hutchison’s book 'Family Photos' presents a non-linear series of generations posing unawares, or slumping into everyday repose, distorted images and pages of visual static, pixelated mush, architecture and swatches of sea and sand.
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A Country Practice
Janina Green’s intimate photographic memoir identifies with a bygone era. Impressions of rural and industrial landscapes are intertwined with personal snap shots and reworked images of family life during the 1950s.
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Christopher Orchard: The uncertainty of the poet
Christopher Orchard is the feature artist of the South Australian Living Artists Festival (SALA) and this monograph is the 19th book in the series produced by the event and surveys his artistic career from the early 1970s.
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Seeing Saltwater Country
Painter Dale Kentwell and photographer Sally Mayman collaborated with Indigenous people and communities of the Dampier Peninsula in the Kimberley region of north western Australia to relay traditional knowledge and connection to country for 'Seeing Saltwater Country'.
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Discovering Dobell
Essays by art critic and curator Christopher Heathcote are accompanied by sketches, drawings on paper and oil paintings by William Dobell (1899-1970).
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Audience: Ross Coulter
Melbourne-based artist Ross Coulter presents a two-volume publication documenting his four-year project titled ‘Audience’. These photo-books, bound in grey fabric hold a comprehensive series of black and white photographs taken between 2013-2016.
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Martin Sharp – His Life & Times
'Martin Sharp – His Life & Times' moves between the loneliness of a privileged childhood, and the energetic creativity of Swinging London, the van Gogh-inspired Yellow House artists’ colony, to the reclusive Wirian years before his death.
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Civic Actions: Artists’ practices beyond the museum
'Civic Actions' includes essays, reviews and conversations from notable artists, curators, academics and cultural practitioners such as Brook Andrews, Hetti Perkins and Elizabeth Ann Macgregor discuss work by artists including Tony Albert, Angelica Mesiti and Lara Thoms.
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