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CELEBRATE 60 Years of the Adelaide Festival with Wakefield Press!

The Adelaide Festival is as much shaped by people and place as it in turn shapes people and place; its identity is a weird and wild shifting thing. It is not owned by one individual, but belongs to everyone. Right now in Adelaide we are experiencing our annual festival season, one of our favourite times of the year here at Wakefield Press! Yet this year festival season is even more special than usual! In 2020,… Continue reading

Fish Carvings from Catherine Truman

One of our major releases for this year is the latest SALA monograph, Catherine Truman. With a lush, evocative text from Melinda Rackham, this book delves into the fascinating world of Truman's art. One of her earliest series, the Fish Carvings, has echoes throughout her career.     Truman's first solo exhibition, Fish Carvings (1987), held at the Contemporary Jewellery Gallery in Sydney, intuitively articulates a feminist discourse of difference in conceptions of ageing and beauty. Carved in two woods –…

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