Hans Heysen
Jane Hylton and John Neylon
Hans Heysen: Into the Light is the fourth book in a series featuring artists represented in the collection of Carrick Hill, Adelaide. Hans Heysen is one of Australia's greatest landscape painters and best-known artists. His work is collected in galleries and museums throughout the world. Hans Heysen: Into the Light is a study of the artist's watercolours, an aspect of his oeuvre much loved by the general public, scholars and fellow artists. This book discusses the progress of his career through his watercolours and also explores his watercolour technique. It includes a short biography of the artist.
Jane Hylton is a freelance curator and art historian specialising in Australian art. Her numerous publications and exhibitions include most recently Modern Australian Women: Paintings and prints: 1925 to 1945 (Art Gallery of South Australia) and two books in this series, Ivor Hele: The productive artist and William Dobell: Portraits in context, which accompanied exhibitions at Carrick Hill. She works from her Fleurieu Peninsula home at Clayton Bay on the lower Murray River.
John Neylon is an Adelaide-based art writer, curator, consultant and art museum educator. He has worked as art critic for the Advertiser, is a long term and regular art reviewer for the Adelaide Review, and has written numerous catalogue essays on South Australian art and artists. Recent books include Aldo Iacobelli: I love painting (Wakefield Press, 2006) and Robert Hannaford: Natural eye (Wakefield Press, 2007).
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An Insider's History of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
Paul Blackman
This history of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra tells the story from its creation through to the world class ensemble that performs today. Earlier orchestral activity from the nineteenth century through to the 1930s set up the receptive environment for the establishment of the orchestra by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1936. After a number of decades of inconsistent funding challenges, the ASO was divested from the ABC in 2007.
The ASO has evolved into the main trunk of the artistic tree in the state delivering music to the South Australian community in various forms including concerts, opera, ballet and drama.
Paul Blackman's background as a long-serving ASO musician, player representative and member of management places him in an ideal position to recount the orchestra's history. As well as offering insights into the orchestra's operations - sometimes from a personal perspective - the many amusing anecdotes will engage the reader.
Praise for An Insider's History of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
'This is a profoundly researched history not just of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, but also of music in South Australia since the very beginnings of settlement. Fascinating.' - Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
'The ASO achieved worldwide recognition when Adelaide's two Wagner Ring Cycles, in 1998 and 2004, brought international praise to the Orchestra. It had been a long journey, meticulously and comprehensively chronicled here by a veteran player, union representative and member of management. From the ASO's many predecessors - some a mere handful of musicians - through its ownership by the ABC, to independence and the trials and tribulations that freedom brought along with its many benefits, the story is told with an attractive mixture of historical fact and anecdote. An easy and informative read.' - Anthony Steele, AO
Paul Blackman grew up in Sydney and started taking music lessons while in primary school. He was accepted into the Sydney Conservatorium High School where for six years he benefited from rubbing shoulders with current and future members of the orchestral music scene in Australia.
After a period in the ABC Training Orchestra, he was appointed Sub Principal Contrabassoon with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and took leave for advanced study in Germany and England. In 1978, he joined the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra as Principal Bassoon, before becoming the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's Principal Contrabassoon in 1981.
For most of his time as a player with the ASO, he was at first a player's representative on the Players' Committee and later became the union representative. After many years on the SOMA National Executive Committee, he became National President the year before his resignation as a player in 2008.
His last six years' service at the ASO was in the role of Human Resources Manager, in which his duties included that of orchestral archivist. During that time he created the ASO Heritage website.
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Cheong Liew: Inside My Food
David Sly, Tony Lewis, Cheong Liew
'We embrace diversity in Australia. I like to capture it on a plate.' - Cheong Liew
Cheong Liew, declared one of the world's ten hottest chefs at the height of his restaurant fame in the 1990s, is a pioneer of East Meets West fusion cuisine. His extraordinary ideas and creativity have made a profound mark on Australia's food culture. Here we unlock the stories and secrets behind 100 of Cheong's favourite dishes.
Tony Lewis is a freelance photographer with a passion for capturing food in all its natural beauty. He has photographed Cheong and his dishes for more than 20 years, and provided images for regular columns featuring Cheong that appeared in the Adelaide Review from 2006 to 2010.
David Sly first interviewed Cheong in 1999, when Sly was Food and Wine editor of the Advertiser. He has had the divine pleasure of speaking with Cheong, reviewing his restaurants and eating his food on a frequent basis ever since.
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Shining Like the Sun
Stephen Orr
Wilf Healy lives in the wheatbelt town of Selwyn, works in Monk's Irish pub, delivers letters, drives the school bus, holds the place together. But he's had enough, wants to retire - to forget his nephew Connor, at war with the world, his brother Brian, visiting from America, his niece Orla, sick with blood cancer. Although he plans, and tries, he can't leave. Something is holding him back.
As the young people flee, the old people die, the drugs arrive in Selwyn, Wilf has to decide what's important. Shining Like the Sun is about the value of promises, of words and actions that might save a failing community. In the process, Wilf learns there's no such thing as retirement.
Stephen Orr was born in Adelaide in 1967, studied science and education and taught in a range of country and metropolitan schools. One of his early plays, Attempts to Draw Jesus, became his first novel, shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award. Since then he has published ten novels (most recently, Sincerely, Ethel Malley) and two volumes of short stories (Datsunland and The Boy in Time). He has been nominated for awards such as the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Miles Franklin Award 'and the International Dublin Literary Award.
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An Everyone Story
Duncan McKellar
'It was a disaster from the word go,' Barb Spriggs said when telling the story of her husband Bob's admission to the Oakden Older Persons' Mental Health Service in Adelaide. Barb had no idea that her story would launch a landmark inquiry, The Oakden Report, trigger a Royal Commission, and place her at the centre of a national scandal.
Barb's story also changed Duncan McKellar's life, a psychiatrist in the review team delving into the circumstances surrounding Bob's death. Duncan went on to lead a transformation in culture and care.
An Everyone Story explores what we might learn from Barb's story, from the stories of people who lived and worked at the Oakden Campus, and the reimagined services that followed it. It places these stories into context - of Duncan's life and learning, of our health and social care systems, and our communities. It asks why cultures of care and service go wrong and what we might do to achieve a kinder and more compassionate world. Ultimately, An Everyone Story considers what it means to be human.
Duncan McKellar, a member of the Oakden Review team in 2017, is a psychiatrist who specialises in the care of older people. He currently lives in Edinburgh, where he is exploring his Scottish heritage, but remains proudly South Australian and calls Adelaide home. He is the co-creator of A Box of Memories, a musical written with his daughter Erin, about a family dealing with dementia.
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A Place to Run Free
Michael LaReaux
Jake Phillips doesn't break the rules because he's a troublemaker. He breaks them because he thinks the rules are stupid. But some rules aren't meant to be broken.
Haunted by memories of fear and violence, Ursus has never known kindness.
An accident sends Jake to an afterlife where pets go to await their human companions. Jake soon discovers it's not the afterlife he learned about in church. An evil presence stalks the dark places among the trees, searching for dogs and cats to steal away. With Ursus as his guide, Jake sets off on a journey through ancient woods and golden grasslands, determined to put a stop to the disappearances and bring back those who were taken.
Jake isn't strong, brave, or smart. Most of the time, he isn't even very nice. But there are animals who need rescue, and there is no one else to save them.
He will just have to find strength and courage along the way.
Praise for A Place to Run Free
'Michael leads us from our real world into a fantasy realm where endearing animals show us what is realy important - Freedom for all living things.' - Rick Crandall, The Dog Who Took Me Up The Mountain.
Michael LaReaux earned his degree in Creative Writing from CSU Hayward and splits his time between Maine and the worlds of his own creation where he is free to be a self-sacrificing, heroic combination of Humphrey Bogart and Superman. He lives in an old farmhouse with his wife, two rambunctious dogs, and a very destructive cat.
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