Books

How six extraordinary women artists of the twentieth century reframed the narrative through their art and lives.When a woman makes art, what does she see? When she picks up her brush and looks in the mirror? When she takes off her clothes and paints...

84 Charing Cross Road meets A Man Called Ove in this Radio 2 Book Club pick: a heartwarming, witty story about the life of an extraordinary woman, told through her letters. In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life...

A visually stunning, moving and humorous meditation on all the things that make us who we are and how we choose to live. A book for all ages with Shaun Tan's amazing art.  To see more images from the book and a video from...

Shaun Tan is one of the world's most acclaimed narrative artists. Drawing upon twenty-five years as a picture book and comics creator, painter, designer and filmmaker, Creature explores a central obsession with imaginary beings.  Beyond sketches for visionary works such as The Arrival, The...

A definitive new survey of Margaret Preston, celebrating her luminous, vivid still lifes, masterful use of colour and her enduring influence on Australian art and design. As one of the most influential Australian artists of the early twentieth century, Margaret Preston transformed the visual...

A comprehensive and richly illustrated publication celebrating the timeless art of Emily Kam Kngwarray — a pre-eminent Australian artist and one of the most significant painters of the 20th century. An Anmatyerr woman from Central Australia, Kngwarray devoted the last decades of her life...

A comprehensive and richly illustrated publication celebrating the timeless art of Emily Kam Kngwarray — a pre-eminent Australian artist and one of the most significant painters of the 20th century. An Anmatyerr woman from Central Australia, Kngwarray devoted the last decades of her life...

If you are looking for the perfect gift for an art lover, this beautiful book features recent paintings by Australian artist Annie Franklin with accompanying poems by the Canberra-based poet, Anita Patel. This is their third collaboration, their first book was Heart Stitched (2019)...

Published to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of Liberty, this book celebrates the extraordinary range of innovative fabric designs that have been at the forefront of the business and its global reputation for well over a century. Liberty – an icon of...

Cloth-covered box containing catalogues, postcards and posters celebrating and exploring the 150th anniversary of London’s iconic store. The Liberty story begins 150 years ago when Mr Arthur Lasenby Liberty opened his first store on Regent Street, May 15th 1875. To mark this special anniversary...

Textile printing is a method for aesthetically enhancing a woven textile through a combination of images and patterns, rhythm and repetition, tactility and texture, colours and light, two-dimensionality and illusions of three-dimensionality. In Denmark, Marie Gudme Leth, Helga Foght, Inge Ingetoft, Arne Jacobsen, Dorte...

Hardly mentioned in standard histories of Australian art, the nude is like an unwanted guest, somehow slightly embarrassing. After a tentative entrance in Hobart in the 1840s, it disappeared until the 1870s. Why was this? When it did finally emerge, how did it compare...

Know My Name celebrates art by women from across Australia. With more than 150 artists profiled and texts written by more than 115 women writers, the book aims to highlight the artists and their work and shift assumptions that the histories of art are...

Set against the burgeoning cultural art scene of 1950s Melbourne, among the soon-to-become legendary artists of the Heide group, Christabel weaves the story of Charles and Barbara and the influence they had on each other, and on the Australian art world. Handwritten letters vividly...

The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This book reveals the most exceptional prints from 1710-1925, drawing from the finest impressions of museums and private...

'Welcome to the past, present and future. I stand side-by-side with my great-grandfather, who I never met - two painters from the centre of this country, standing up and making our voices heard. I believe in the power of art, the power of the paintbrush....

Ikuntji Artists presents Ikuntji Textiles, a book about the development of the designs, their stories and the artists behind them, and the collaborations. This full colour publication gives an insight into Ikuntji's range of wearable art textiles. Texts included range from interviews with the artists in...

Located on a small ridge at the edge of the Indulkana Ranges, approximately 575 kilometres south of Alice Springs, Iwantja Arts art centre is home to some of Australia's most exciting Indigenous art.The art centre, a studio collective where the artists meet, socialise and...

Filled with brilliant reproductions, engaging texts and the latest scholarship, this portable and attractively priced volume is the perfect introduction to one of European modern art's most important movements. Founded in Munich in 1911, the Blue Rider Group was a revolutionary collective of artists...

With new chapters taking in the last few years of Margaret Olley's life, her state funeral and the enormous legacy she has left behind. Margaret Olley is arguably Australia's most loved artist. She was also one of the country's most generous benefactors to public...