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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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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A View from the Horizon
Peter Duncan
In A View from the Horizon one of South Australia's most influential political reformers tells his life story with frank disclosure.
Five years after he graduated as a lawyer, aged 28, Peter Duncan entered the South Australian Parliament as the member for Elizabeth. In just his first year in parliament, the young reformer introduced a Private Members' Bill, which later prompted former Chief Justice Michael Kirby to describe him as 'the father of homosexual law reform in Australia'.
Three years later, in 1975, he became Attorney-General in Don Dunstan's socially progressive Labor Government. Amid controversy and negotiation, he initiated a raft of reformist legislation, notably the abolition of capital punishment and the criminalisation of rape in marriage.
Peter Duncan resigned from state politics in 1984 to take on the new federal seat of Makin for the Hawke Labor Government. He became one of few politicians who have served as a minister in both a state and the federal parliament. As parliamentary secretary to the Attorney-General in the Keating Government, he worked on the Disability Discrimination Bill, passed into law in 1992. He describes this as the achievement of which he is most proud.
His post-parliamentary life is distinguished by successful ventures and disappointments along the way. He's had his share of tragedy, with the premature death of his wife, journalist Julie Duncan, in 2005. Now in his 70s, Peter Duncan's passion for justice and fairness in an unfair world remains undiminished. He lives in Lombok and with his partner Puspa runs a popular hotel.
As his former political comrade and longtime friend Lynn Arnold writes, Peter Duncan's A View from the Horizon is 'funny, sad, insightful, totally honest, idiosyncratically Australian and unambiguously authentic'.
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Wendy Sharpe
Elizabeth Fortescue
As a title for this sumptuous new book, Wendy Sharpe: Many Lives felt just right. Wendy Sharpe (b. 1960) leads many lives: those of artist, collaborator with writers and performers, and prodigious traveller with homes in Sydney and Paris. Sharpe has touched many lives, from the East Timorese at a time of war, to refugee women or those who've been in jail. The title also resonates with Sharpe's family tree, which includes a number of Ukrainian psychics.
Although an atheist, Sharpe is fascinated by the possibility of a parallel spirit world. The idea that we might all have many lives, rises to the surface on the artist's canvases.
In this book, journalist Elizabeth Fortescue tells Sharpe's story from her beginnings as a shy child on Sydney's northern beaches to her current position as one of Australia's most celebrated artists. Art critic John McDonald discusses how Sharpe's international travels have inspired her art. Senior curator Justin Paton focuses on Sharpe's fascination with light and dark, both metaphorical and actual. Drawing specialist Anne Ryan teases out the role of drawing in Sharpe's overall practice. Journalist and writer Scott Bevan vividly recalls travelling with Sharpe when she was an Australian official war artist. And journalist and author Stephanie Wood brings an observant eye to Sharpe's practical humanitarianism.
Wendy Sharpe: Many Lives boasts more than 200 images of Sharpe, her studio, her home and work. A timeline, CV and index are included, creating a framework around the ongoing story of this consummate creator.
Elizabeth Fortescue entered the wondrous world of journalism in 1978, running errands for subs and editors at News Corp's Sydney headquarters in Holt Street, Surry Hills. Gaining a cadetship in 1979, Fortescue visited jails, fashion houses, courtrooms, parliaments and countless numbers of homes and business places while on assignment to cover the daily life of Sydney in all its various textures. Fortescue initiated stories about art and exhibitions as often as she could, gradually creating a new role as visual arts writer for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph. She went on to become arts editor of those newspapers between 2015 and 2021.
Today Fortescue's art writing is published in many leading journals. These include the Australian Financial Review, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the magazines of the Art Gallery of NSW and the State Library of NSW. She is a long-term Australian correspondent for the prestigious London-based monthly, The Art Newspaper.
In 1995, Fortescue tracked down and interviewed a young artist called Wendy Sharpe whose star was inexorably on the rise. Sensing a hint of mutual familiarity, journalist and artist worked out that they had been friends and playmates in the early 1960s, when they were little girls and their families lived almost next door to one another at Avalon Beach.
This special friendship - and its unexpected rediscovery and continuation after so many years - underpins the delight Fortescue has taken in working with Sharpe to bring this book to fruition.
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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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