Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.
A close study of the 186 carved decorations on the Ross Bridge — the convict-built sandstone bridge that has spanned the Macquarie River at Ross since 1836, and one of the most visited historic sites in Tasmania. The carvings were the work of Daniel Herbert, a transported convict who was a stonemason by trade.
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Books on Tasmanian art and artists, spanning painting, photography, craft and art history.
A biography of Tasmanian artist Patricia Giles, who has had a career as an artist spanning six decades, painting en plein air through the challenging weather of Tasmania.
Revolutions that shaped Tasmanian black and white wilderness photography from the sublime to the skyline. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.
Max Angus's tribute to Olegas Truchanas — the Lithuanian-born Tasmanian wilderness photographer, canoeist and environmental activist whose life and work directly shaped the course of Tasmanian conservation history. Truchanas arrived in Tasmania as a refugee after WWII and found in the island's wild places a landscape that moved him profoundly. He became an extraordinary wilderness photographer and one of the most skilled canoeists in Australia, making solo journeys through country that had defeated most previous expeditions
A scholarly paper by N.J.B. Plomley, a leading historian of Tasmanian Aboriginal historical sources, examining the portraits of Tasmanian Aboriginal people painted by Thomas Bock — a transported convict artist who went on to become a respected society portraitist in colonial Hobart.
Chris Bell's sixth book — a retrospective of fifty of his finest photographs from over 40 years photographing Tasmania's wild places, published to coincide with his major exhibition at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston in September 2025.