Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Margo Neale, Tony Ellwood, Ian McLean, Akira Tatehata and Yasuyuki Nakai.
272 pages  paperback colour illustrations

Emily Kame Kngwarreye was one of Australia’s premier artists. The recent Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye exhibition, curated by the National Museum of Australia, featured 120 of Kngwarreye’s best works. It has toured Japan and Australia. Accompanying the exhibition, this catalogue provides beautiful reproductions divided into sections such as ‘Sacred Grasses’, ‘Field of Dots’ and ‘Body Lines’.

With essays by Tony Ellwood, Ian McLean, Akira Tatehata and Yasuyuki Nakai, Utopia: The Genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye is an informative and beautiful catalogue

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McCulloch's Contemporary Aboriginal Art: the complete guide
Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch Childs

“A unique mix of art and guide book.” Margo Neale, National Museum of Australia
"Books like this are so important in bridging cross-cultural barriers...a must-have guide." Scoop magazine, 2008
From Alice Springs to Aurukun, Kaltjiti to Kakadu, Papunya to Peppimenarti and throughout Australia, McCulloch’s Contemporary Aboriginal Art is the complete guide to the Aboriginal art of Australia featuring:
• extensive profiles on more then 80 art regions, art centres and artists • more than 400 illustrations of artwork, landscape and artists in their country • a comprehensive introduction detailing the history of contemporary Aboriginal art • location maps • buyer’s guide • an exploration of the new media and styles of city-based artists
Widely acclaimed for its accessible yet authoritative style, the new edition of this best selling book is packed with information and introduces much new material on the art of Central Australia, PY and NPY lands, the Kimberley, the West, the Top End, Arnhem Land, Queensland, Torres Strait Islands and much more.
Essential for the traveller, the collector, the enthusiast, the art professional or anyone interested in the vibrant art of Aboriginal Australia

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For more than 40 years leading businessman Pat Corrigan has been one of Australia’s largest and most significant arts benefactors. A strong supporter of the innovative and of living artists, post-2000 Pat turned his eye towards Aboriginal art. The vibrancy of the art and the lives of the artists appealed – so a new collection was started. In New Beginnings, Pat Corrigan and his family reveal some of the works from this collection.
New Beginnings highlights new paintings that rank amongst the contemporary masterpieces of Australian art. They include the modern masters of the Western Desert and the Kimberley – artists such as Tommy Watson, Bill Whiskey Tjapaltjarri, Naata Nungurrayi, Makinti Napanangka, Patju Presley, George Tjungurrayi, Eubena Nampitjin and Wingu Tingima, as well as a large range of other equally powerful paintings by both established and emerging artists.

With essays on the artists by writer and curator Emily McCulloch Childs, a moving essay by University of Sydney Professor of Contemporary Art, Ross Gibson, and a preface by Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Museum of Australia, Margo Neale, the sumptuous New Beginnings also relates some of the story of Australian Aboriginal art – at once highly contemporary and equally ancient.

'Beautifully produced' Rosemary Sorensen, The Australian
'My intitial reaction when I received this book and saw the paintings represented was: beautiful, intriguing, stunning, powerful, vibrant, exquisite, spiritual. These are all paintings and images of incredible quality. It is hard not to be impressed by the beauty of this collection: the aesthetic quality of the pieces...the publication of this beautiful book is one more of the new beginning.' Thérèse Rein

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McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art has been Australia’s leading art reference work for 40 years and is packed with more than 1200 pages of up to date information including:
• Australian Aboriginal art and artists with detailed information on artists, community arts centres, family groups and regions
• more than 8000 entries on Australian art and artists, art movements, groups, auctions, prizes and awards, exhibitions and galleries
• over 100 essays on art styles including colonial, impressionism, modernism, new media, photography, portraiture, street art and many more.
• website links to galleries and other informative sites
With almost 1000 images of Australian and Aboriginal art McCulloch’s Encyclopedia documents and insightfully analyses Australian and Aboriginal art, artists, art styles and movements from the famous to the obscure, the colonial to the contemporary.
A book to browse as well as a scholarly reference McCulloch’s is the essential reference on Australian art for professionals, art collectors, students and anyone interested in the vibrant art of Australia.
The single most important reference book on Australian art ever published - Professor Sasha Grishin, Art & Australia

... a wonderful picture book, in addition to being an indispensable research tool… This splendid family collaboration has gone a long way to defining what Australian art is... - Peter Hill, The Age.

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From totem designs used for body paint-up to sweeps of brilliant colour on canvas, the art of Mornington and Bentinck Islands has a long and rich history. This major new book – featuring the work of artists from Mornington Island Arts & Craft centre – explores, for the first time, the history and visual culture of the region and its wide ranging contemporary art movement.
Founded by brothers Dick and Lindsay Roughsey in the 1960s, todays’ artists of Mornington Island, off the far north Queensland coast, are creating fresh and exciting imagery. Alongside this, led by Sally Gabori, has developed a whole new school of joyous paintings by the Kaiadilt artists of nearby Bentinck Islands.
Lavishly illustrated throughout the book features a stunning four page fold-out of a large collaborative painting and informative essays by Dr Paul Memmott and Dr Nicholas Evans and art writer Louise Martin-Chew, and with biographies of the leading exhibiting artists, The Heart of Everything is an in-depth exploration of the vibrant contemporary art of this fascinating region of Australia’s far north.

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