In 'About Face', Amber Creswell Bell examines the practices of a diverse canvas of portrait painters in Australia and New Zealand. Emma-Kate Wilson speaks with the author-artist....
Amber Creswell Bell: About Face
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Earth & Fire
Earth & Fire introduces the reader to forty-five active ceramicists, their thoughts, materials, and processes when working with their chosen medium....
Australian Abstract
Amber Creswell Bell poses the question, “What is Abstract?” and delves into the practices of forty-one Australian abstract artists to find the answer in her fifth publication with Thames & Hudson....
Still Life: Contemporary Australian Painters
Amber Creswell Bell presents the work of 41 contemporary Australian artists whose artistic practices encompass or include the genre of still life painting....
Ken Done: Art, Design, Life
Alice Dingle reviews Amber Creswell Bell’s monograph ‘Ken Done: Art, Design, Life’, a comprehensive publication championing Done’s enduring legacy and his work over the last 40 years....
Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the Mouths and Minds of Women Artists
22 Australian and international artists who have caught the attention (and held it) of Abigail Crompton are celebrated in ‘Truth Bomb’ through personal vignettes....
Bill Henson: The Light Fades but the Gods Remain
Bill Henson’s connection with the Glen Waverley region is the focus of this series of photographs portraying luminous renditions of twilight suburbia, ruins of antiquity and the fruitful mysteries of adolescence....
Step Into Paradise: Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson
Two of Australia's most iconic textile and haute couture designers, Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson, are celebrated in this richly illustrated publication....
Portraits Destroyed: Power, ego and history’s vandals
Julie Cotter’s subsequent vignettes in ‘Portraits Destroyed’ explore the weight of the genre, how it can deify and also send the ‘wrong’ message about a person....
52 Artists 52 Actions: Small Acts of Disobedience
‘52 Artists 52 Actions’ harnesses the digital platform of Instagram with artists in Asia to address the urgent, personal and political genuine crises of our day....
The Word is Art
'The Word is Art' is a book about the ‘death of the book’, as Michael Petry addresses concerns with advancing technology and its threat to the written word....
Polixeni Papapetrou
Featuring the photographic work of Polixeni Papapetrou, this small-scale publication is one of the first in a new series of ‘mini monographs’ from Thames & Hudson....