World Food Books

Imants Tillers
Venice Biennale 1986

1986, English
Softcover, 60 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Gallery Board of South Australia / Adelaide

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue published to accompany Imants Tillers' participation in the 1986 Venice Biennale, published by Australia Council and the Art Gallery Board of South Australia. Heavily illustrated throughout with photographs of Tillers' painting stacks in his Mosman home, alongside his major exhibited canvasboard paintings including "Heart of the wood" 1985, "I am the door" 1985, "Mount Analogue" 1985, "Psychic (for Yves Klein)" 1986, "The Kondratiev wave" 1986, and "Thehyperborean and the speluncar" 1986. They demonstrated the realisation of a vision that Tillers had been developing in the early-mid 1980s towards an art in which provincialism, fragmentation and distance could be seen as highly productive material for an artist. He recognised that the tendency towards mimicry could be used to advantage, particularly when the source was itself the subject of transformation through the dotscreen matrix of reproductions disseminated around the world. Includes texts by Daniel Thomas, Vivien Johnson and Imant Tillers, and quoted passages by Nietzsche and Arakawa (on Giorgio di Chirico).

Imants Tillers (born 30 July 1950) is an Australian artist, curator and writer. Tillers has represented Australia at important international exhibitions such as the Sao Paulo Bienal (1975), Documenta 7 (1982), and the 42nd Venice Biennale (1986).

Very Good copy.

File under: Imants Tillers Kerry Crowley Imants Tillers Friedrich Nietzsche Daniel Thomas Vivien Johnson Art Gallery Board of South Australia / Adelaide Australian Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Art

Clement Meadmore

1989, English / Japanese
Softcover, 30 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Contemporary Sculpture Centre / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce Japanese catalogue on Australian-American sculptor Clement Meadmore, published on the occasion of the first exhibition of Meadmore's work in Japan held at the Contemporary Sculpture Centre, Tokyo, 1989. Illustrated throughout with Meadmore's own photography of his exhibited sculptures, including maquettes for larger works, alongside documentation of his major outdoor sculptures. Includes texts by Meadmore, American curator Harry Rand, and Kiichi Iino of the Contemporary Sculpture Centre, as well as a portrait, list of works and list of exhibitions. All texts in Japanese and English.

Clement Meadmore (1929 – 2005) was an Australian-American sculptor, designer and jazz enthusiast known for massive outdoor metal sculptures which combine elements of abstract expressionism and minimalism. Born Clement Lyon Meadmore in Melbourne, Australia, in 1929, Clement Meadmore studied aeronautical engineering and then industrial design at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. After graduating in 1949, Meadmore designed furniture, graphics and interiors for several years and, in the 1950s, created his first welded sculptures. He had several one-man exhibits of his sculptures in Melbourne and Sydney between 1954 and 1962, where he also directed Max Hutchinson’s important Gallery A and was an active member of the jazz scene, as both an avid amateur drummer and record sleeve designer. In 1963 Meadmore moved to New York City. In the US he realised many of his largest public sculptures and later became an American citizen.

Very Good.

File under: Clement Meadmore Harry Rand Kiichi Iino Clement Meadmore Contemporary Sculpture Centre / Tokyo Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Art Out-of-print / Rare

Norma Redpath

1970, English
Softcover, 50 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rudy Komon Gallery / Sydney

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Incredible and very scarce catalogue of Australian sculptor Norma Redpath published on the occasion of an exhibition at Rudy Komon Gallery, Sydney, in 1970. "An overall study of the work of Norma Redpath and in particular the years 1960 and 1970." Profusely illustrated throughout in black and white with Redpath's sculptures and public commissions, with commentary by NGV director (1973–74) Gordon Thomson and Redpath's hand-written notes about the works throughout. Also includes a biography, exhibition and commission list.

Norma Redpath (1928 – 2013) was a prominent Australian artist. Born in Melbourne, she became a member of the Victorian Sculptors' Society (VSS) whilst still a student at RMIT. In 1953 she, along with Inge King, Julius Kane and Clifford Last, founded the 'Group of Four' and in 1961 she joined the artists grouping 'Centre Five' (among others Inge King, Julius Kane, Clifford Last, Lenton Parr, Vincas Jomantas and Teisutis Zikaras), who broke with the VSS and organised private exhibitions. During the fifties, she traveled to Europe and studied in Italy from 1956 to 1958 at the Universita per Stranieri in Perugia and she lived in Rome. Her love for Italy and Italian art would not release her. In 1958 she returned to Australia, but in 1962 she won a scholarship from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where she would later settle. In 1963, Redpath was given her first solo exhibition in Australia at Max Hutchinson’s Gallery A in Melbourne. Known as the Little Bauhaus, the gallery, under the management of artist/designer Clement Meadmore, championed non-figurative art and industrial design. The show was composed of 12 bronzetti (small scale bronzes) which she had made during her time in Milan. After the critical and financial success of the Gallery A show she was awarded several major commissions in Australia during the 1960s and 1970s, including the Treasury Fountain in Canberra. In 1970 Norma Redpath was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to contemporary sculpture. Redpath shared her time between Melbourne and Italy, returning permanently to Melbourne in 1985.

Very Good copy.

File under: Norma Redpath Rudy Komon Gallery / Sydney Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare

Bill Henson
Mnemosyne

2005, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 504 pages, 26 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Scalo Publishers / Zürich Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

$450.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the major 500-plus page, highly collectible mid-career survey book on Australian photographer Bill Henson, "Mnemosyne", published by Scalo in Zürich on the occasion of the artist’s retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney in 2005, which toured to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, that same year. This comprehensive hardcover volume lavishly reproduces all of Henson's major bodies of work to date, alongside essays by Judy Annear, Jennie Boddington, Edmund Capon, Dennis Cooper, Peter Craven, Isobel Crombie, John Forbes, Michael Heyward, Alwynne Mackie, David Malouf, Bernice Murphy, Peter Schjeldahl, and an interview with Bill Henson by Sebastian Smee.

"Sometimes, but very rarely these days, one can announce a real discovery in contemporary photography — a book that will emphatically place its author on the international map on the same level as such giants of photography as Robert Frank and Nan Goldin. After the international success of Lux et Nox Scalo is proud and excited to announce the definitive mid-life retrospective book on Australian artist Bill Henson. The book combines all groups of work that Henson has created up to the present: from his early Ballet pictures (1974), to his body and nude portraits (1977–1986), from his photographs of street-crowds (1979–1982) to his Baroque Triptychs (1983–84), from his fantastic combinations of pictures taken in the Australian Suburbs and Egypt (1985/86) to his Los Angeles and New York nightscapes (1987–88), from his famous cut-out collages shown at the centenary Venice Biennale in 1995, to the portraits of adolescents and his magical color compositions for the Paris Opera (1990/91), and, most recently, a haunting selection of his images of children adrift in the wilderness of night (1997-2004), many of these appearing for the first time. Bill Henson is a continent in photography to be discovered. This book will be one of Scalo’s major contributions to the understanding of contemporary photography. Published on the occasion of the artist’s retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, opening January 2005 and touring to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne in April." — publisher's blurb

Very Good copy with minor edge and dust jacket wear from light handing/storage.

File under: Bill Henson Judy Annear Jennie Boddington Edmund Capon Dennis Cooper Peter Craven Isobel Crombie John Forbes Michael Heyward Alwynne Mackie David Malouf Bernice Murphy Peter Schjeldahl Sebastian Smee Scalo Publishers / Zürich Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Australian Art Australian Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Eros Art

Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication (Endless Lonely Planet 9)

2020, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 21 x 29.7
Ed. of 100,
Published by Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne

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Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication by Melbourne artist Christopher LG Hill is both the ninth issue of his ongoing publishing imprint Endless Lonely Planet, and a major survey art book marking the end of his 12 year artist facilitated biennale project, spanning 2008-2020.

"Multiple sites and moments, artist facilitated biennials extending on structures and limitations set by Signs of life: Melbourne International Biennial 1999. Abstracting and bringing new meaning to the form of a biennial as a more casual and independent entity, the project has seen many participants and collaborators over the last 12 years. This book hopes to document some of these moments, but more so to be a catalyst for different modes and models that it may inspire." — publisher

Includes extensive photographic documentation of The (self initiated, Artist funded) second (fourth) Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art (& Design), TCB art inc., 2008; The First & Final Y3K Second (third) Inaugural Melbourne Biennial of International Arts, Y3K, 2011 (curated by Joshua Petherick, James Deutsher, and Christopher L G Hill); Third/Fourth Melbourne Biennial, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2013; 4th/5th Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2016 (as part of TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes/Discipline); 5th/6th final Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, Dec 2018 -Dec 2020 (co-facilitated by Virginia Overell and Christopher L G Hill in their apartment/ the ex-Telecom building that was the site of the Melbourne International Biennial 1999)

Includes the work of ACW, Liz Allen, Animal Charm, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Liv Barrett, Matthew Brown, Ruth Buchannan, Jon Campbell, Jane Caught, Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Ying Lan Dann, James Deutsher, Daniel du Bern, Ida Ekblad, ffiXXed, Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Justin K Fuller, Matt Griffin, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Bianca Hester, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Lisa Kelly, Devin Kenny, Taree Mackenzie, Simon McGlinn, Rob Mckenzie, Nick Mangan, Scott Mitchell, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Geoff Newton, John Nixon, OSW, Alexander Ouchtomsky, Damon Packard, Spiros Panigriakis, Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Janneke Raaphorst, Nick Selenitsch, Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins, Gregory P Sharp, Kate Smith, Sriwhana Spong, Dylan Statham, Masato Takasaka, Ben Tankard, Simon Taylor, Alex Vivian, Annie Wu, Hany Armanious, Andreas Banderas, Mikala Dwyer, Katherine Huang, Tobias Kaspar, Piotr Łakomy, Taree Mackenzie, Tahi Moore, Michael O’Connell, Ester Partegas, Natalie Rognsoy, John Spiteri, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Olivia Barrett, Matthew Benjamin, Jon Campbell, Trevelyan Clay, Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, James Deutsher, DoubleFly, George Egerton-Warburton, Endless Lonely Planet, ffiXXed, Alicia Frankovich, Justin K Fuller, Marco Fusinato, Greatest Hits, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, David Homewood, Matthew Hopkins, Lou Hubbard, Renee Jaeger, Helen Johnson, Kenneth Biennale (curated by Kenny Pittock and Amy May Stuart: Chris Clarke, Christo Crocker, Christina Hayes, Chris L G Hill, Christine Pittock, Christopher Sciuto), Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie), S.T. Lore, Patrick Lundberg, Carrie McGrath, Rob McKenzie, Taree McKenzie, Nick Mangan, Gian Manik, Kate Meakin, Adelle Mills, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Elizabeth Newman, Virginia Overell, Sean Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Lisa Radford and Sam George, Nick Selenitsch, Kate Smith, Studio Masatotectures, Sydney (Esther Edquist), Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd, Ben Tankard, Alex Vivian, Nicki Wynnychuk, y3k, Lauren Burrow, Counterfeitnessfirst, James Deutsher, Laurel Doody, George Egerton-Warburton, ELP3 Vine, Endless Lonely Planet, Lewis Fidock, Aurelia Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Lou Hubbard, Lucina Lane, Kate Meakin, Tahi Moore, Elizabeth Newman, Liam Osborne, Virginia Overell, Joshua Petherick, Lisa Radford, Zac Segbedzi, Nick Selenitsch, Nicholas Tammens, Alex Vivian, Rudi Williams, Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn, Candida ((Gian Manik and Ricarda Bigolin) in collaboration with Agnieszka Chabros, Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen), Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Renee Cosgrave, Christo Crocker, Ying Lan Dann, Endless Lonely Planet, Richard Frater, Aurelia Guo, HB Peace, Hoggle, Lou Hubbard, Olivia Koh, Spencer Lai, Laurel Doody Library Supply, Patrick Lundberg, Kate Meakin, Olivia O’Donnell, Jason Willers, and more...

More info at http://www.christopherlghill.com

File under: ACW Liz Allen Animal Charm Dan Arps Sean Bailey Liv Barrett Matthew Brown Ruth Buchannan Jon Campbell Jane Caught Xin Cheng Fiona Connor Ying Lan Dann James Deutsher Daniel du Bern Ida Ekblad ffiXXed Pat Foster & Jen Berean Justin K Fuller Matt Griffin Ardi Gunawan Hao Guo Bianca Hester Christopher L G Hill Matt Hinkley Helen Johnson Lisa Kelly Devin Kenny Taree Mackenzie Simon McGlinn Rob Mckenzie Nick Mangan Scott Mitchell Tahi Moore Kate Newby Geoff Newton John Nixon OSW Alexander Ouchtomsky Damon Packard Spiros Panigriakis Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples Joshua Petherick Kain Picken Janneke Raaphorst Nick Selenitsch Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins Gregory P Sharp Kate Smith Sriwhana Spong Dylan Statham Masato Takasaka Ben Tankard Simon Taylor Alex Vivian Annie Wu Hany Armanious Andreas Banderas Mikala Dwyer Katherine Huang Tobias Kaspar Piotr Łakomy Michael O’Connell Ester Partegas Natalie Rognsoy John Spiteri Olivia Barrett Matthew Benjamin Trevelyan Clay Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan DoubleFly George Egerton-Warburton Endless Lonely Planet Alicia Frankovich Marco Fusinato Greatest Hits David Homewood Matthew Hopkins Lou Hubbard Renee Jaeger Christo Crocker Christina Hayes Chris L G Hill Christine Pittock Christopher Sciuto) Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie) S.T. Lore Patrick Lundberg Carrie McGrath Rob McKenzie Taree McKenzie Gian Manik Kate Meakin Adelle Mills Elizabeth Newman Virginia Overell Sean Peoples Lisa Radford and Sam George Studio Masatotectures Sydney (Esther Edquist) Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd Nicki Wynnychuk y3k Lauren Burrow Counterfeitnessfirst Laurel Doody ELP3 Vine Lewis Fidock Aurelia Guo Lucina Lane Liam Osborne Lisa Radford Zac Segbedzi Nicholas Tammens Rudi Williams Gavin Bell Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn Renee Cosgrave Richard Frater HB Peace Hoggle Olivia Koh Spencer Lai Laurel Doody Library Supply Olivia O’Donnell Jason Willers Amy May Stuart Kenny Pittock Madeline Kidd A Constructed World Agnieszka Chabros Ricarda Bigolin Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen Chris Clarke Christopher Sciuto Candida Esther Edquist S.T. Lore Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Australian Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Sound / Music Textiles

"weeds change the colour of water"...

2020, English
Softcover, 76 pages, 11 x 18 cm
Ed. of 200,
Published by Daisart / Naarm-Melbourne

$18.00 - Out of stock

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“weeds change the colour of water”… is a speculative effort, one dreamt to collect ideas, interpretations, and interactions. By listening patiently, we may come to recognise some pattern in the tangle that surrounds and involves us – a spot to sense that, like a weed, we are insecurely tethered amid choppy and changing waters, which now, more than usual, have us flailing and adrift.

Features:
Hearing Australian Identity: Sites as Acoustic Spaces, an Audible Polyphony, Ros Bandt; Ephemeral Tears: Interview with Kazumichi Grime and Nick Wilson of Clan Analogue; "underneath a pile of rags": A playlist by friends of related "Australian" artists; that from which can be told is divided into two sections, Wound Without A Tear.

Extract:
Australian identity is a complex interplay of site, language and technology. Sound installations are powerful tools to access the collective consciousness associated with sites, each one an ever-changing audible polyphony. For each site there are many stories, dissolving around each other, some reflecting, some disappearing, many mutating according to the context, the time of hearing and the manner in which it is told. Sound carries layers of meaning and nonverbal information not possible with text-based accounts. The breath, the timbre, the speed and the intonation of each authentic voice influence the content and meaning of the spoken word. Utterance shapes narration and identity. Different voices when made audible side by side in a slipping mobile confluence, can inform each other in different and changing ways.

File under: Ros Bandt Clan Analogue Kazumichi Grime Paul Schütze Sarah Hopkins Pretty Boy Crossover Tim Jackiw Pelican Daughters Ros Bandt Daisart / Naarm-Melbourne Sound / Music Australian Art

TRAIN CROSSING
by LOU HUBBARD

2020, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by Zatezalo Press / Melbourne

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A train derails in a Barcelona apartment.
A video jerks on a barbecue grill.
A pair of spectacles:
a flip-book
and
a story that runs on tracks.

Published by Zatezalo Press, a Melbourne based imprint focusing on paperback books from contemporary Australian artists. Each book is an edition of 100.

Lou Hubbard is a Melbourne based artist and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and the moving image to interrogate the nature of training, submission and subordination.

File under: Lou Hubbard Zatezalo Press / Melbourne Art Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Australian Art Australian Photography

Scott Redford
1962: Selected works 1983–1992

2003, English
Softcover, 128 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 33 x 24 cm
Edition of 500,
Published by UQ Art Museum / Brisbane

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful and scarce over-sized monograph surveying the early work of Scott Redford, published on the occasion of the exhibition "1962: Scott Redford Selected Works 1983 - 1992" at the University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia. 3 October - 22 November 2003. Beautifully designed and brilliantly illustrated, this monograph brings to life Redford’s diverse work across assemblage, sculpture, painting, installation, and much more. Includes essay by Andrew McNamara and interview with Scott Redford. Limited edition of 500 copies.

Scott Redford (b. 1962 Gold Coast, Queensland) is a highly significant and influential Australian contemporary artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s. Redford's work is unique in its references to international art movements including colour-field painting, conceptual art and pop art, while engaging with local themes, such as Australian art history, beach culture and vernacular architecture, regularly commenting on issues of gender and identity.

File under: Scott Redford Andrew McNamara UQ Art Museum / Brisbane Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Painting

Australia: Nine Contemporary Artists

1984, English
Softcover, 90 pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by LAICA / Los Angeles

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Australia: Nine Contemporary Artists" at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, June 30 - August 14, 1984. To coincide with the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, LAICA director Robert Smith invited nine Australian artists (John Davis, John Dunkley-Smith, Marr Grounds, Lyndal Jones, John Nixon, Mike Parr, Redback Graphix, Stelarc) to create site-specific installations at the gallery. This generous catalogue profiles the work of each artist with reproductions of past works, artist writings, and document of their various outcomes in Los Angeles. Includes biographies.

Very Good copy with some tanning to covers and sticker residue to bottom of spine/front. Sticker on verso reading "Exhibitions Australia".

File under: John Davis John Dunkley-Smith Marr Grounds Lyndal Jones John Nixon Mike Parr Redback Graphix Stelarc LAICA / Los Angeles Art Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

Destiny Deacon
Walk & Don't Look Blak

2006, English / Japanese
Softcover, 110 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / Tokyo

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Scarce Japanese catalogue on contemporary Australian artist Destiny Deacon, published on the occasion of the 2006 Japanese presentation at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography of a major touring survey exhibition, "Destiny Deacon: Walk & Don't Look Blak", curated by Natalie King and assistant curator Virginia Fraser. Profusely illustrated throughout with Destiny's incredible photographic works, alongside a collection of her writings, a conversation with Virginia Fraser, contributions by Marcia Langton, Richard Bell, Harumi Niwa and Natalie King, biography, catalogue of exhibited works and more. Edited by Museum curators Harumi Niwa and Keishi Mitsui, with exhibition curators Natalie King and Virginia Fraser.

Texts in English and Japanese.

Destiny Deacon (b. 1957, Maryborough, Queensland. Lives and works Melbourne, Victoria). Destiny Deacon is a descendant of the KuKu (Far North Queensland) and Erub/Mer (Torres Strait) people. An artist, broadcaster and political activist, her performative photographs, videos and installations feature members of her family and friends as well as items from her collection of ‘Aboriginalia’ – assorted black dolls and kitsch. Partly autobiographical and partly fictitious, her acerbic and melancholic work deals with both historical issues and contemporary Aboriginal life and is informed by personal experience and the mass media. Deacon’s humorous works examine the wide discrepancies between representations of Aboriginal people by the white Australian population and the reality of Aboriginal life. In her ‘lo-tech’ productions, Deacon creates an insightful comedy that is effective in establishing a discourse about political, Indigenous and feminist concerns.

Fine copy, almost As New.

File under: Destiny Deacon Virginia Fraser Marcia Langton Richard Bell Harumi Niwa Natalie King Keishi Mitsui Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / Tokyo Art Australian Photography Photography Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare

Ginger Riley
Judith Ryan

1997, English
Softcover, 104 pages, 24 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

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Major catalogue on the extraordinary work of Ginger Riley Munduwalawala, published on the occasion of a retrospective of his work at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, in 1997. Profusely illustrated throughout in vivid colour, accompanied by texts by curator Judith Ryan, biography and bibliography. Ginger's own specially created alphabet of letters have been used throughout to create the headings of each section.

Ginger Riley Munduwalawala (circa 1936 – 1 September 2002) was one of Australia's most well-known contemporary artists, one whose distinctive pictorial style and adventurous sense of colour sets him apart from other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists of his generation. He was born in the Limmen Bight area of the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. His first language was Marra, now a critically endangered language. Riley became an artist during the 1950s as a result of his encounter with Albert Namatjira. He painted his mother’s country, focusing on the weather-worn rock formations known as the Four Archers near the mouth of the Limmen Bight River in south-east Arnhem Land. Using bright, luminous and often contrasting colours and strong flattened forms, Riley depicted this landscape and its ancestral beings: Garimala the snake, who created the Four Archers; Ngak Ngak the white-breasted sea-eagle and guardian figure; the ceremonial shark’s liver tree; the Four Archers themselves; and the Limmen Bight River. Riley’s extraordinary creativity allowed him to reinvent this subject matter again and again, expressing in his work his vision of physical geography, creation knowledge and ancestral sites. His strong sense of place enabled this overview, and he painted, he has said, as if he was, ‘ … on a cloud, on top of the world, looking down … From the top I can see country right down to where I come from.’

Very Good copy, tanning to spine.

File under: Ginger Riley Munduwalawala Judith Ryan NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Australian Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare

Rose Nolan
Big Words (Not Mine) - Read the words 'public space'...

2017, English
Softcover, 576 pages, 23 x 17 cm
Ed. of 200,
Published by Negative Press / Melbourne

$80.00 - In stock -

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This monumental artists’ book returns Vito Acconci’s text, that inspired Nolan’s large scale installation of 282 painted hessian pennants 'Big Words (Not Mine) Read the words “public space”…', 2013, back to the codex form of the book. With Acconci’s text broken into strings of letters, the book interrogates the relationship between documentation and representation and explores Nolan’s continued interest in materials, process and seriality.

Design: Warren Taylor
Photography: Garry Sommerfeld

Published in an edition of 200 copies

File under: Rose Nolan Negative Press / Melbourne Art Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

Sovereign Words : Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism

2018, English
Softcover, 288 pages, 16 x 23 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

$55.00 - Out of stock

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Now out-of-print, last copies.

Artists and cultural practitioners from indigenous communities around the world are increasingly in the international spotlight. As museums and curators consider the global reach of their collections and exhibitions, this publication draws upon the challenges faced by cultural workers today, both indigenous and non-indigenous, to engage meaningfully and ethically with the histories, presents, and future of indigenous cultural practices and world views. Through sixteen indigenous voices the book charts perspectives across art and film, ethics and history, theory and museology.

Editor: Katya García-Antón
Contributors: Daniel Browning, Kabita Chakma, Megan Cope, Santosh Kumar Das, Hannah Donnelly, Léuli Māzyār Luna’i Eshrāghi, David Garneau, Biung Ismahasan, Kimberley Moulton, Máret Ánne Sara, Venkat Raman Singh Shyam, Irene Snarby, Ánde Somby, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Prashanta Tripura, Sontosh Bikash Tripura, and the OCA contributors: Liv Brissach, Katya García-Antón, Drew Snyder, Nikhil Vettukattil

File under: Hannah Donnelly Katya García-Antón Daniel Browning Kabita Chakma Megan Cope Santosh Kumar Das Léuli Māzyār Luna'i Eshrāghi David Garneau Biung Ismahasan Kimberley Moulton Máret Ánne Sara Venkat Raman Singh Shyam Irene Snarby Ánde Somby Megan Tamati-Quennell Prashanta Tripura Sontosh Bikash Tripura Valiz / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Curatorial Art Australian Art

Annotations
curated by Rose Lang and Verginia Trioli

1989, English
Softcover (double fold-out card), 210 x 297
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Annotations, curated by Rose Lang and Verginia Trioli, at 200 Gertrude Street in 1989. "An exhibition of visual art and writing that explores the idea of commentary and response." Introductory text by Lang and Trioli Lasica followed by texts by Butcher Joe Nangan, Stephen Muecke, Kevin Murray, Peter Lawrence, and a catalogue of exhibited works by Fiona Macdonald, Stephen Bram, Rose Lang And Stieg Persson, John Bartlett and Natasha Moszenin, Linda Marrinon and Ralph Traviato, Geoff Lowe, Jon Campbell and Kevin Murray, Brenda Ludeman and Kathy Temin, Robert Rooney.

Fine copy.

File under: Fiona Macdonald Stieg Persson John Bartlett Natasha Moszenin Linda Marrinon Ralph Traviato Geoff Lowe Jon Campbell Kathy Temin Robert Rooney Stephen Bram Rose Lang Verginia Trioli Butcher Joe Nangan Stephen Muecke Kevin Murray Peter Lawrence Brenda Ludeman 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Art Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Theory / Essay SALE

Vasari Revisited: A Kunstkammer In Melbourne
organised by Michael Graf

1988, English
Softcover (single fold-out card), 210 x 297
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

$10.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Vasari Revisited: A Kunstkammer In Melbourne, organised by Michael Graf, at 200 Gertrude Street in 1988-89. Graf's Australian recreation of Studiolo of Francesco I in the Gertrude gallery! Illustrated text by Michael Graf throughout alongside a catalogue of exhibited works by Suzannah Barta, Stephen Bram, Angela Brennan, Gavin Brown, Tony Clark, Rebecca Driffield, Rozalind Drummond, Louise Forthun, Helena Gleeson, Michael Graf, Louise Harper, Matlu Hassan, Andrew Lehman, John Mackinnon, Anne-Marie May, Rob Mcleish, Dora Mcphee, Paul Morgan, Louise Murray, Elizabeth Newman, Amanda Ritson, Joanne Ritson, Sarah Ritson, Ian Russell, Anne Weir

Fine copy.

File under: Suzannah Barta Angela Brennan Gavin Brown Tony Clark Rebecca Driffield Rozalind Drummond Louise Forthun Helena Gleeson Michael Graf Louise Harper Matlu Hassan Andrew Lehman John Mackinnon Anne-Marie May Rob Mcleish Dora Mcphee Paul Morgan Louise Murray Elizabeth Newman Amanda Ritson Joanne Ritson Sarah Ritson Ian Russell Anne Weir Stephen Bram Michael Graf 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art Painting Theory / Essay

Physical Culture
curated by Shelley Lasica

1989, English
Softcover (single fold-out card), 210 x 297
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

$10.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Physical Culture: A Series Of Performances And An Exhibition Of Visual Culture, curated by Shelley Lasica, at 200 Gertrude Street in 1989. Introductory text by Lasica alongside a full list of performance and exhibited works by Stephen Bram, Elizabeth Newman, Louise Forthun, Mutlu Hassan, Melbourne Research Group, John De Silentio and Aleks Danko, Rosslynd Piggott, Shiralee Saul, Trevor Patrick, Teresa Blake and Dan Wilton, Jacqui Rutten, Sarah Ritson, Andrew Browne, Richard Todd.

Fine copy.

File under: Shelley Lasica Elizabeth Newman Louise Forthun Mutlu Hassan Melbourne Research Group John De Silentio Aleks Danko Rosslynd Piggott Shiralee Saul Trevor Patrick Teresa Blake Dan Wilton Jacqui Rutten Sarah Ritson Andrew Browne Richard Todd Stephen Bram 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Art Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Painting

Australian Sculpture Now
Second Australian Sculpture Triennial

1984, English
Softcover, 218 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

$40.00 - Out of stock

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The great catalogue published to accompany Australian Sculpture Now, The Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, held at the National Gallery of Victoria, 6 November 1984 - 28 January 1985. This generous publication on Australian sculpture in the mid 1980s, edited by Graeme Sturgeon, presents the work of 70 Australian sculptors through heavily illustrated spreads, biographies and exhibition histories, alongside accompanying illustrated essays. An important document in the history of Australian sculpture, including the work of many great artists seldom seen in print nor exhibition elsewhere.

Artists included : Chris Beecroft, Joan Brassil, Ian Bracegirdle, Rodney Broad, Martine Canneel, Cheo Chai-Hiang, Peter D. Cole, Chris Constable, Peter Corlett, Augustine dall'Ava, John Davis, John Elliott, Stuart Elliott, Martin Everett, Anne Ferguson, Rosealie Gascoigne, Karen Genoff, Richard Goodwin, David Hamilton, Nigel Helyer, Paul Hopmeier, Maurie Hughes, David Jensz, Bob Jenyns, Stephen Killick, Inge King, Jan King, Robert Klippel, Andrew Kinghorn, Lou Lambert, John Landry, Cliford Last, Michael Legrand, Ian McKay, Adrian Mauriks, Rosemary Madigan, Hilarie Mais, Akio Makigawa, Maggie May, Ross Mellick, Wendy Mills, Lyn Moore, Kevin Mortensen, Roder Noakes, Kevin Norton, Fiona Orr, Lenton Parr, Jill Peck, Lutz Presser, Anthony Pryor, Ari Purhonen, Loretta Quinn, Tom Risley, Ron Robertson-Swann, Guiseppe Romeo, Peter J. Rosman, Paul Selwood, Judy Silver, Michael Snape, Jo Steele, Richard Stringer, Wendy Teakel, Mark Thompson, Tony Trembath, Maggie Turner, Ken Unsworth, Trevor Weekes, David Wilson, Pam Wragg.

File under: Chris Beecroft Joan Brassil Ian Bracegirdle Rodney Broad Martine Canneel Cheo Chai-Hiang Peter D. Cole Chris Constable Peter Corlett Augustine dall'Ava John Davis John Elliott Stuart Elliott Martin Everett Anne Ferguson Karen Genoff Richard Goodwin David Hamilton Nigel Helyer Paul Hopmeier Maurie Hughes David Jensz Bob Jenyns Stephen Killick Inge King Jan King Robert Klippel Andrew Kinghorn Lou Lambert John Landry Michael Legrand Ian McKay Adrian Mauriks Rosemary Madigan Hilarie Mais Akio Makigawa Maggie May Ross Mellick Wendy Mills Lyn Moore Kevin Mortensen Roder Noakes Kevin Norton Fiona Orr Lenton Parr Jill Peck Lutz Presser Anthony Pryor Ari Purhonen Loretta Quinn Tom Risley Ron Robertson-Swann Guiseppe Romeo Peter J. Rosman Paul Selwood Judy Silver Michael Snape Jo Steele Richard Stringer Wendy Teakel Mark Thompson Tony Trembath Maggie Turner Ken Unsworth Trevor Weekes David Wilson Pam Wragg Rosalie Gascoigne Clifford Last Graeme Sturgeon NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

Hostings: Ocular Lab, 2003–10

2012, English
Softcover, 116 pages, 17 x 24.4 cm
Published by Surpllus / Melbourne

$30.00 $10.00 - Out of stock

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Hostings: Ocular Lab, 2003–10 documents and celebrates the eight-year history of Ocular Lab Inc., an artist-run initiative that occupied a disused milk bar in West Brunswick, Melbourne. The book features 96 pages of imagery, new essays by Stephen Zagala and Zara Stanhope, and a chronology of ‘the Lab’. Hostings was produced on the occasion of the exhibition Ocular Lab Inc. at the VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 12 April – 5 May 2012.

Describing Ocular Lab in Frieze magazine, Max Delany wrote: ‘The activities and programme at Ocular Lab have evolved through a particular emphasis on hosting and dialogue and a desire for non-hierarchical collective processes. Ocular Lab dinners, held in the gallery space, often in honour of a visiting artist, became emblematic of a wider set of principles. The exhibition programme developed through individual members hosting projects, rather than by application or a committee judging process. Visiting artists always used the space rent-free, allowing for the space to be used in an open-ended spirit, often for process-based projects or as a temporary studio. And an array of international exchange projects took place in the space, ranging from artist talks and dinners through to longer-term site-specific projects.’

The Ocular Lab membership was Damiano Bertoli, Sandra Bridie, Julie Davies, Raafat Ishak, Sean Loughrey, Jonathan Luker, Sally Mannall, Tom Nicholson, Elvis Richardson, and Alex Rizkalla. Previous members include John Abbate, Katherine Huang, Louise Paramor, Kirsten Rann, and Bernhard Sachs.

Editors: Julie Davies & Brad Haylock
Design: Brad Haylock

Edition of 600 copies.

File under: Damiano Bertoli Sandra Bridie Julie Davies Raafat Ishak Sean Loughrey Jonathan Luker Sally Mannall Tom Nicholson Elvis Richardson Alex Rizkalla John Abbate Katherine Huang Louise Paramor Kirsten Rann Bernhard Sachs Julie Davies Brad Haylock Surpllus / Melbourne Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Art SALE

Grace Crowley

2019, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 12 x 17 cm
Published by Kunstverein / Amsterdam

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'Grace Crowley' is a publication based on letters sent to the Australian artist and pioneer of modernist painting Grace Crowley (1890–1979) by friends, family, and colleagues. Parts of those letters, which are now housed in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the State Library of New South Wales archives in Sydney, were transcribed and categorized by Riet Wijnen in subsections such as ‘Marital Status’, ‘Teaching’, ‘Hosting’, ‘Eurasia’, ‘X’, ‘Being A Woman’, ‘War’, ‘$’, and ‘Making Work’. The result is an alternative biography constructed solely through a living set of relations.

File under: Kunstverein / Amsterdam Art Painting Theory / Essay Australian Art SALE

Robin Boyd : Design Legend

2020, English
Softcover,
Published by Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria

$15.00 $5.00 - Out of stock

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This publication records the dynamic animation screened as part of the exhibition Robin Boyd: Design Legend.

Heide Museum of Modern Art is very pleased to publish Robin Boyd: Design Legend, marking the centenary of a remarkable figure in the history of Australian architecture and design.

By Garry Emery and Jane Mooney

File under: Robin Boyd Garry Emery Jane Mooney Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Furniture Australian Art Architecture / Interior SALE

The Politics of Public Space - Volume One

2020, English
Softcover (cloth), 190 pages, 16.5 x 10.4 cm
Published by Office / Melbourne

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The Politics of Public Space is a quarterly publication of transcripts that speak directly to the city and the way we read it. The first issue contains excerpts from Mark Jacques, Tania Davidge, Tom Andrews & Peter Chambers, Libby Porter and Claire Martin. Each to an individual extent touch on recent events which have shaped how Melbourne’s public spaces are discussed and understood. Tom Andrews & Peter Chambers provide a summary of their research into the development of general protective measures instigated by Governments here in Melbourne. Following the community response to the proposed redevelopment of Federation Square’s Yarra Building site, Tania Davidge spoke on the proposal and the relationship between physical and digital public space. Libby Porter outlines the processes of dispossession in the city and the Swanston Square apartment building. With Lincoln Square as the backdrop, Mark Jacques proposes devices of inclusion in the design of public space. Claire Martin speaks about the privatisation of public space, and how this impacts the way the city is formed and occupied.

File under: Office / Melbourne Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Art Periodicals Australian Art

John Nixon
Nummer 11

2001, English
Softcover (stapled), 18 pages (colour ill.), 32 x 23.5 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by Kunsthaus / Baselland

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Catalogue for the 2001 exhibition at Kunsthaus, Baselland
John Nixon is an Australian artist born in 1949, his Experimental Painting Workshop EPW – founded in 1990 – is not a physical workshop but an intellectual as well as a practical visual investigation into non-representational painting.

File under: John Nixon Kunsthaus / Baselland Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting

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2020, English
Metallic offset printed poster in hand-numbered sleeve, 59.4 x 84.1 cm (folded)
Ed. of 500.,
Published by Self-Published / Melbourne

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Publication produced on the occasion the the exhibition ...(illegible)... at MADA Gallery, Monash University, 25 July – 24 August 2019, curated by Andrew Atchison and featuring the work of Briony Galligan, Mathew Jones, Paul McKenzie, John Meade, Fiona Macdonald and Scott Redford.

"...(illegible)... is an exhibition that explores queer abstraction as a contemporary conceptual methodology. The term 'queer abstraction' describes the potential of an artwork to communicate something of lived queer experience(s) through seemingly non-referential, abstract visual language. This position makes space for a critique of the notion that artworks should present as explicitly, legibly queer according to signs or qualities allocated to the art-historical category of Queer Art."

The exhibition will be curated by Andrew Atchison and will include artists Briony Galligan, Mathew Jones, Paul McKenzie, John Meade, Fiona Macdonald and Scott Redford.

In an individually numbered edition of 500, this fold-out A1 poster catalogue, printed in metallic ink and designed by Paul Mylecharane at Public Office, features documentation of the exhibition alongside curator's essay.

File under: Briony Galligan Mathew Jones Paul McKenzie John Meade Fiona Macdonald Scott Redford Andrew Atchison Self-Published / Melbourne Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Rennie Ellis
Life's A Beach

1983 / 1986 Ed., English
Softcover, 96 pages, 20.5 x 22 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Currey O'Neil / Melbourne

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Award winning Australian photographer Rennie Ellis' cult classic photo-book, "Life's A Beach", first published in Melbourne in 1983. Steeped in beach lore since his early days as a lifesaver and surfer, Ellis put together this vivid collection of quintessential images of Australian beach life with great affection and insight. These early 1980's photographs shimmer with summer light and a graceful, infectious sensuality - the greatest photographic collection of Australian beach culture put to paper.

"On the beach we chuck away our clothes, our status and our inhibitions and engage in rituals of sun-worship and baptism. It's a retreat to our primal needs." Rennie Ellis

No other photographer has documented Australian society in such depth and with such insight into the human condition as Rennie Ellis. Active from the 1970s until his death in 2003, Rennie Ellis' non-judgmental approach was his 'access-to-all-areas' pass. Ellis used his camera as a key to open the doors to the social arenas of the rich and famous and to enter the underbelly of the nightclubs, bearing witness to the indulgences and excesses. In today's post-Henson era, these captured moments offer an intimate access to an Australia tantalisingly, but sadly, now almost out of reach.

As New copy except for light creasing to covers. Otherwise a perfectly kept unread deadstock copy.

File under: Rennie Ellis Currey O'Neil / Melbourne Australian Art Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Photography Australian Photography