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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Jacky Redgate: Mirrors
This monograph contextualises Redgate’s work, placing it in a historical framework that invites the reader to discover the ‘sleeve-invading pigs’ of Redgate’s past and view the artist’s work anew.
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Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and the Other Thing
Ashleigh Wilson methodically tracks this mercurial artist from early family days to his final years – a motley of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, and importantly art.
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Judith Wright: In the Garden of Good and Evil
This new book beautifully presents images of Brisbane artist, Judith Wright’s work, In the Garden of Good and Evil (2014-2016), a large-scale installation created with components of paint on wood and found objects such as dolls heads and mannequins.
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A History of MILS, 2009–2016
MILS gallery's seven-year history is chronicled with an eponymous book displaying over 400 artworks by 120 artists and two long-form essays.
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The Samstag Legacy: an artist’s bequest
Split into two parts, this scholarly publication documents the journey that led American artist Gordon Samstag and his wife Anne to move from America to Australia.
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Museum of Modern Love: Heather Rose
This book parallels the real and arduous 750 hours Marina Abramovic spent at MoMA in New York for her performance The Artist is Present, 2010.
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Gosia Wlodarczak: Frost Drawing
'Frost Drawing' by Gosia Wlodarczak is the final component to the artist’s project series based on her real-time performance work.
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Antarctica: An Absent Presence
Philip Samartzis reflects on the extremes of the environment, its weather conditions and habitations in the Polar Regions.
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Ocula Conversations, Vol 1
This publication presents a selection of in-depth interviews with leading art figures from across the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
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A Life in Art: Janet Venn-Brown
Janet Venn-Brown is an Australian artist now in her nineties who is still painting today and has led an extraordinary life in Australia and abroad.
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Gordon Bennett: Be Polite
'Gordon Bennett: Be Polite' follows the exhibition of largely unseen works on paper by one of Australia’s most visionary and critical artists.
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Francis Upritchard: Jealous Saboteurs
Includes a casual interview by Brian Griffiths where Upritchard discusses her practice; the use of bodily gags like “stiffies” and inspirations such as PJ Harvey and Scooby Doo.
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