This week, we celebrate the release of New Exuberance: Contemporary Australian Textile Design, curated and edited by Meryl Ryan.
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DREAM SPOTLIGHT: ‘It will be freezing and wet but the Iliad will be open’ by Mike Ladd
This week’s spotlight, like its feature writer Mike Ladd, subverts its usual form to highlight the essay, ‘It will be freezing and wet but the Iliad will be open’ from the recently released Dream Tetras.
Wakefield Press acquires Edwina Preston’s novel of art, motherhood and ‘selfishness’
Wakefield Press is delighted to announce the acquisition of Edwina Preston’s novel of women artists struggling to make their mark in 1960s bohemian Melbourne, provisionally titled Veda Grey, via agent Jenny Darling. Publication is projected for May 2022.
Read more about this exciting new acquisition below!
CELEBRATE ART: Elaine Haxton, a colourful artist and life
This week, we are celebrating the extraordinary life of artist Elaine Haxton, with a new book Elaine Haxton: A colourful artist and life by Lorraine Penny McLoughlin.
This gorgeous art book showcases the range and quality of Elaine Haxton’s work, asserting her rightful place as a significant twentieth century Australian artist.
CELEBRATE ART: Ivor Hele, the productive artist
This week, discover the work of Ivor Hele, an artist of extraordinary discipline and power. He was enormously prolific and completed more commissioned works than any other artist in the history of Australian art.
Ivor Hele: The productive artist by Jane Hylton, curator and author, is a beautiful portrait of an artist, focusing on his life, his work, and his legacy.
CELEBRATE ART: Tom Moore: Abundant wonder
The glass figures contained within the new book Tom Moore are sometimes sweet, occasionally unsettling, always surreal. To flip through these pages is to sink into dreams, imagination and childhood. Adelaide glass artist Tom Moore’s work is truly a delight for the eyes and heart.
Tom Moore is one of Australia’s leading glass artists. Over his career he has carved out a singular voice within Australian glass art making. His engaging, sophisticated and technically challenging hybridised animal/plant sculptures – and the fantastical worlds they inhabit – are embedded in the history of glassmaking and scientific discovery. His artworks are disarmingly playful in their use of narrative to critique the pressing social and environmental concerns of our contemporary epoch.
CELEBRATE ART: Adelaide Noir by Alex Frayne
Discover a different side of a familiar city, with this beautiful (and beautifully sinister) photography art book by photographer Alex Frayne.
Adelaide Noir explores the city of churches like you’ve never seen it before, reshaping the way South Australians see their state. Alex’s images of factories, playgrounds and shopping centres give voice to his darkly comic vision, seeking beauty in the mundane, and art wherever it may be found.
CELEBRATE ART: Kirsten Coelho by Wendy Walker
Discover beauty in simplicity, with our stunning new art book on Adelaide ceramicist Kirsten Coelho.
With text written by author, art critic, editor and occasional curator Wendy Walker, this beautiful book traces the evolution of Coelho’s textured practice, in which an ever-expanding framework of art historical, literary and cinematic references has driven a succession of formal shifts – a shaping of changes.
CELEBRATE ART: Dogs in Australian Art by Steven Miller
Flip through the pages of this beautiful art book with a twist. Dogs in Australian Art by Steven Miller looks at Australian art through the lens of dog painting, showcasing over 150 masterworks that illustrate the deep bond between Australians and their best friends.
CELEBRATE ART: Annabelle Collett
