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!
Continue readingThis 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.
Continue readingThis 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.
Continue readingThe 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…
Continue readingDiscover 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.
Continue readingDiscover 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.
Continue readingFlip 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.
Continue readingTake a sneak peek inside this gorgeous book on artist Annabelle Collett by Kathie Muir, which is as bright, bold, and beautiful as Collett herself.
Continue readingTo bring some blooms into your home and brighten up your week, here is a look inside the colourful pages of Blooms and Brushstrokes: A floral history of Australian art!
Continue readingOpening this coming weekend, the Discovering Dobell exhibition at Tarrawarra – and its accompanying book – features the artist’s controversial and recognisable portraits of Joshua Smith, Dame Mary Gilmore and, as we see here, Helena Rubinstein, alongside other vital strands of his output, introducing the creative achievements of this great Australian painter for a new generation of art lovers. The cosmetics manufacturer Helena Rubinstein became an obsession for William Dobell. He fretted over her portrait for six years, producing many versions in an effort to…
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