Creature: Paintings, Drawings and Reflections (HB) by Shaun Tan
$64.95 AUD
Category: Art & Design
A collection of Shaun Tan’s artwork from the past 25 years.The drawings and paintings in the book come from his work in picture books and other works including films and graphic novels. Others were created for no specific purpose beyond the desire to see what something looks like, or just to follow a sk ...Show more
Retro Sydney by Nathan Mete
$55.00 AUD
Category: Photography
A collection of beautiful photographs of Australia's first city that invites you to immerse yourself and revisit the cool, quirky, glamorous, exciting, menacing, and wonderful times of Retro Sydney.This collection of photographs celebrates the vibrant and exciting coming of age of Australia's first city ...Show more
Terra Ultima: The discovery of a new continent by Raoul Deleo
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
To most of us, the world in which we live seems well-traversed - explored in all directions and meticulously mapped. But something unbelievable has escaped us all... an entire continent named Terra Ultima. This extraordinary book documents this strange new world for the very first time. A visual sensati ...Show more
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschlager
$75.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
A magnificent new biography of the founder of Impressionism. In the course of a long and exceptionally creative life, Claude Monet revolutionized painting and made some of the most iconic images in western art. Misunderstood and mocked at the beginning of his career, he risked everything to pursue his ...Show more
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
Why do we wear what we wear? To answer this question, we must go back and unlock the wardrobes of the early twentieth century, when fashion as we know it was born. In Bring No Clothes, acclaimed fashion writer Charlie Porter brings us face to face with six members of the Bloomsbury Group - the collect ...Show more
Iwantja: An exuberant new movement in contemporary Indigenous art by IWANTJA ARTS
$79.99 AUD
Category: Art & Design
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 make art, was founded in the ...Show more
The Lost City of Melbourne: This Is a Story of Marvellous Melbourne, Before Whelan the Wrecker Was Here by Gus Berger (Compiled by, Concept by, Based on a movie by)
$75.00 AUD
Category: Architecture
In the 1850s, Melbourne was the fastest growing city in the world. "They dreamt big, they built big. It was a city jumping out of its skin". It became an epicentre of film culture and its hotels, restaurants and cafes became world renowned. However, the attempted 'modernisation' of Melbourne in the ...Show more
Confidence in 40 Images: The Art of self-belief
$29.99 AUD
Category: Photography
An inspiring curated selection of 40 photographs and artworks with accompanying essays examining the skill of confidence. The difference between success and failure often comes down to an ingredient that we are seldom directly taught about and may forget to focus on: confidence. What makes one life chee ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art & Design | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Frida & Diego: Love & Revolution The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of Mexican Modernism by Tansy Curtin
$39.95 AUD
Category: Art & Design
At the centre of the story of twentieth-century Mexican art, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are known not simply for their artistic contribution to the nation but also for their fascinating and all-consuming love affair. Twenty years her senior, Rivera was already a celebrated artist when he met Kahlo in ...Show more
From the Other Side : the Monstrous Feminine
$25.00 AUD
Category: Art & Design
Produced in association with the upcoming ACCA exhibition of the same name, this publication casts a lens upon feminist, queer and non-binary subjectivities to consider the transgressive pleasures and liberations of horror, as makers, masters and consumers of the genre. Featuring curatorial texts by El ...Show more
Embroidery: Learn in a Weekend by Roisin McDonnell, Alisha McDonnell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Craft | Series: Learn in a Weekend Ser.
An easy way to get into this popular craft, with instructions, templates and contemporary projects that will soon get you going. The traditional craft of embroidery has gained a new excitement as a new generation of stitchers bring contemporary style to subjects like houseplants and modern interiors. Th ...Show more