This monograph traces an unusual life, dedicated to the arts. Audette's career as a painter and artist specialising in works on paper has now spanned near six decades: from Sydney where she studied and modelled for Max Dupain, to Europe, Italy and Spain in the post- war years when abstract expressionism was the dominant new trend.

This candidly written memoir, enlivened by the author's impish sense of humour, narrates the way in which, by chance and circumstance, Tom Lowenstein placed his career at the service of the Australian art world. The book describes Lowenstein's numerous David and Goliath battles with the Australian Government and the Australian Tax Office for a greater understanding and fairer treatment of the unique set of circumstances and numerous challenges faced by the country's creative sectors. Lowenstein's interactions with his colourful and gregarious clients took him frequently out of the comfort of the corporate environment into the artists' homes and studios. The personalities of Charles Blackman, Colin Lanceley, Margaret Olley, John Olsen, Garry Shead, Tim Storrier, and many other luminaries of the art world are vividly brought out with unique insights and unexpected angles. The book is richly illustrated with photographs from Lowenstein's personal archives documenting his long-standing friendships and reflecting its heady mixture of accounting, art, and wine.

Brought to Light - a publication on the Australian art collection of the Queensland Art Gallery - presents a new model for the documentation of visual arts collections in Australia. It is not a catalogue but an anthology of 60 original essays on selected works of interest. Approximately 150 works are illustrated and discussed in 60 original essays from scholars, artists and art historians, who place works in historical and social contexts in ways that expand the reader's knowledge of specific works of art and Australian art history. Comparative illustrations from other public collections and artists' archives are a special feature of this book. Featured artists include: Arthur Streeton, Rupert Bunny, George Lambert, Roland Wakelin, Grace Cossington Smith, Lloyd Rees, William Dobell, Russell Drysdale, Margaret Preston, Sidney Nolan, Ian Fairweather and Albert Namatjira.. Contributing authors: Elizabeth Churcher, Mary Eagle, Julie Ewington, Sasha Grishin, Doug Hall, Humphrey McQueen, Joanna Mendelssohn, Drusilla Modjeska, Margo Neale, Barry Pearce, Mark Pennings, Andrew Sayers and Virginia Spate. Features over 300 illustrations (many full-page).

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

In 2004 Australian artist Peter Bonner embarked on a period of intense drawing. He drew in New York, the American Southwest and the Australian desert and he drew constantly. Something altered. A day in the life of the desert held lessons in how to see; memories from his early past came into the picture. In Bonner’s words: “It’s hard to speak just the right amount of the truth of what happened and just the right amount of the magnetic, so that people really want to hear about it— and it’s hard to find a way to do it quickly so the moment isn’t lost—” In the Australian winter of 2018, an exhibition of Bonner’s drawings took place at the School of Clay and Art (SoCA) in Melbourne. It provided the occasion for an extraordinary conversation about drawing among a group of Melbourne artists. With the feeling of shared, unfolding experience, A Pilgrim’s Progress documents both exhibition and conversation.

The most publicly accessible art of the late Roger Kemp is perhaps the magnificent tapestries that hang in the great hall of the National Gallery of Victoria. This major figure of Australia's post war art world is the subject of Christopher Heathcote's latest book.

HORIZON: GREG JOHNS, SCULPTURES 1970-2002 traces the ideas and career of the Adelaide-based artist from his first commission in the late 1970s through to participation in recent exhibitions in New York and Bahrain. The story is told by noted Adelaide writer and art critic, John Neylon of the Art Gallery of South Australia. His text examines all aspects of the artist's development as a creator of large-scale public sculptures and explains the philosophy that has shaped the work. The reader is led through a rich array of ideas and images relating to the use of sculptural form as a language in which the works serve as metaphors for the human psyche and the natural/cosmic systems that define our world. A number of key sculptures are examined in detail - as are issues surrounding public art and its reception within the community. The processes of commissioning, creating and installing the sculptures are described along with intimate glimpses into the creation of each work as it proceeds from the artist's studio, to the engineering works where it is fabricated, and then on to its intended site.

In this 4th and fi nal volume of a series that includes more than 800 composers and over 30,000 compositions Stephen traces the history and development of Classical music in Australia. From obscure and forgotten composers to those who attained an international reputation this volume reveals their output, unique experiences and travails. The foundation and demise of music ensembles, institutions, venues and festivals is part of the story and included in the narrative are performers, conductors, entrepreneurs, educators, administrators, instrument makers, musicologists, music critics and philanthropists. A concise yet comprehensive picture of Australian music making can be found in any given year.