PIETER ZAADSTRAS AUSTRALIAN KELPIE ART by PIETER ZAADSTRA

$19.95 AUD

Category: Art

The Hangman' Garden by Simon Mroczkowski (Illustrator)

$45.00 AUD

Category: Art

A-Z illustrated book of characters that meet their demise

Jimmi Buscombe's Trick of the Eye Colouring Workbook by Jimmi Buscombe (Created by, Drawings by, Curated by, Artist, Illustrator, Designed by, Concept by, Cover Design by, Arranged by); Sheridan Buscombe (Created by, Concept by, Text by, Produced by, Photographer, Intro and Notes by, Assisted by, Curated by, Arranged by)

$21.99 AUD

Category: Art

Hello from Warrnambool - a small city by the wild Southern Ocean, off the Southwest coast of Victoria, Australia. As a full-time visual artist, my time is divided between working alone in my studio and working in public spaces such as schools, aged care facilities, zoos, laneways and even water towers. In these outdoor spaces, the walls and paths become my canvas. I love to paint images that are very life-like, but also very playful and eye catching; a wombat bursting through a hole in a wall, kookaburras sitting on a drinking fountain, a daddy emu watching over his nest of eggs that eventually crack and then hatch!My family and I came up with this colouring workbook at our kitchen table in Warrnambool. We worked out that the "tricks" I use to create my 3D trompe l'oeil (trick of the eye) public art pieces can also be used on a smaller scale, in the format of a colouring book! All you need is some pencils, scissors and the special worksheets I have designed. Once finished, use a camera on your phone or device to find the perfect viewing spot and turn your artwork into a 3D optical illusion, then take some photos and share them with your friends!This workbook is for everyone, everywhere, but smaller children may need help from a grown-up. We hope that what we created at our kitchen table in Warrnambool will bring you many happy hours at your kitchen table too.From our family to your family, wherever you are in the world, we wish you much health, creativity and fun.The world is always brighter with art!?Jimmi Buscombe's Trick of the Eye Colouring Workbook includes a folio with 18 trick of the eye colouring worksheets, simple instructions, example photos and a message from Jimmi. ...Show more

Criss Canning - The Pursuit of Beauty by David Thomas

$80.00 AUD

Category: Art

Criss Canning is one of Australia's best loved and most celebrated still life artists. Inspired by the beauty of nature and the works of advanced European modernists, and with dedication to the absolutes of colour and pictorial composition, she has created paintings that are immediately seductive. One c annot help but be astonished by their beauty and by the level of skill required to achieve their effects.Among the book's 320 colour images are reproductions of some 218 paintings created between 1980 and 2020 - including her most recent. David Thomas's text elucidates the artist's life story and describes the aesthetic qualities of the paintings from a critical and art historical point of view. The book also contains extensive biographical and bibliographical data and details of all works exhibited in art galleries since 1982.This comprehensive account of an artist's life and work also focuses on developments in the paintings over the past two years, which herald exciting new aspects of Canning's ongoing 'pursuit of beauty'. ...Show more

Rone: Street Art and Beyond by Rone

$59.99 AUD

Category: Art

Known for his multi-storey murals gracing buildings all over the world, Melbourne-based artist Rone uses his work to explore the friction and connection between beauty and decay, youth and ruin.Rone was a seminal figure in the explosive Melbourne street art scene of the early 2000s. With his beginnings in street art, stencil and screen printing, Rone is now best known for his haunting images of women's faces, rendered in arresting detail on silos and store fronts, museums and apartment blocks. His immersive installations have continued his investigation into divergent themes of beauty and ruin, materiality and loss, through the transformation of condemned, derelict or forgotten spaces - with each artwork painstakingly produced, only to be destroyed. Rone: Street Art and Beyond presents a survey of the artist's work from the street, the studio, and the ephemeral installations. The works are bookended by essays that trace the evolution of Rone's career over the last two decades, delve into his depictions of women, and go behind the scenes of his most ambitious installation to date: Empire (2019), set in the disused Art Deco mansion Burnham Beeches on the outskirts of Melbourne. Anecdotal notes from the artist unpack the stories behind the portraits, tying them to their communities in London, Paris, New York, Havana, Christchurch, Hong Kong and beyond. ...Show more

Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Colour by David Coles

$34.99 AUD

Category: Art

This is the paperback edition of the highly successful Chromatopia. Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic colour; or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? Throughout history, artists' pigments have been made from deadly metals, poisonous minerals, urine, cow dun g, and even crushed insects. Chromatopia reveals the origin stories of over 50 of history's most extraordinary pigments. ...Show more

Streeton by Wayne Tunnicliffe

$70.00 AUD

Category: Art

With his remarkable evocations of light and the landscape, Australian artist Arthur Streeton (1867-1943) remains one of the most enduring and popular painters in Australian art. His sun-drenched impressionist landscapes from the 1880s, joyful depictions of Sydney beaches and harbour in the 1890s, and pa storal paintings from the 1920s and 30s continue to define an image of our unique environment for many Australians. This richly illustrated tome features over 275 paintings, including his much-loved Australian paintings as well as works from Streeton's international career painting in Egypt, Venice, England, Italy and the battlefields of First World War France. A comprehensive publication including 16 essays from historians and curators from around the country, Streeton presents the artist as a master of light with a love for the landscape and a deep concern for the destruction of the forests and degradation of waterways, heralding our conservation and climate-change debates today.   ...Show more

Colour in Australia by Agnieszka & Pych Sierzputowska

$24.95 AUD

Category: Art

Use your creativity to explore Australia with these 30 enchanting drawings… Take your coloured pencils on a journey from desert to ocean, finding exotic animals, wildflowers and spectacular Australian landmarks on the way. A perfect souvenir for travellers to Australia or gift for creative dreame rs everywhere. Use your creativity to explore Australia with these 30 enchanting drawings… Take your coloured pencils on a journey from desert to ocean, finding exotic animals, wildflowers and spectacular Australian landmarks on the way. A perfect souvenir for travellers to Australia or gift for creative dreamers everywhere. ...Show more

The Essential Guide to Drawing by Barber Barrington

$12.99 AUD

Category: Art

The Lives of Objects by Tristram Hunt (Editor)

$59.99 AUD

Category: Art

In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell the stories behind ten of their most treasured objects. 'Tipu's Tiger' (an almost life-size wooden semiautomaton mauling a European soldier), th e 'Great Bed of Ware' (an Elizabethan bed for 8 people) and a Shakespeare First Folio are among the featured highlights whose route to the V&A collections are entertainingly revealed. Through these stories, this insightful history of museum curation o a world of careful study and sometimes remarkable fortuity o shows how the priorities of a museum are shaped and change over time. ...Show more

Truth Bomb: Inspiration from the mouths and minds of female artists by Abigail Crompton

$49.99 AUD

Category: Art

If anyone can teach us how to pursue the life and work of an artist, it is the artists in Truth Bomb. This compilation of pioneering and established women artists from around the world will motivate and empower you, challenge you to find solace in the shared human experiences of birth, death, love, ange r, joy, sadness. Their sassiness will fire your spirit. Truth Bomb offers the very best commentary and insight into the incredible formation of diverse women artists while uncovering the power of taking a chance, pushing the envelope and ultimately not being shy when it comes to making a mark. It is a magical visual mash-up of images, memoirs, moments, interviews and inspirational beginnings as told by twenty-two leading women artists, including Beci Orpin, Mickalene Thomas, Kaylene Whiskey and Judy Chicago. Truth Bomb is an ode to art and artists and an attempt to decipher the mystery of creativity. ...Show more

Patterns in Art - A Closer Look at the Old Masters by Francesca Leoneschi; Giovanna Ferraris (Illustrator); Silvia Lazzaris

$65.00 AUD

Category: Art

A visual delight, and a designer's dream-the decorative details of great European paintings transformed into beautiful two-dimensional patterns Richly embroidered robes. Intricate lace collars. Elaborately laid floor tiles. Delicately carved and modeled cornices and capitals. These are among the detail s of decorative art that the Old Masters lovingly rendered in their paintings, to establish a setting, convey a portrait subject's social status, or sometimes just enliven a scene. Together these details-so easy to overlook in the imposing harmony of draftsmanship, color, and composition that makes up a great painting-form a veritable history of ornament. This inventive book plucks these decorative motifs from the background of paintings by masters like Rubens, Memling, and Filippo Lippi, and transforms them into vibrant two-dimensional patterns. Seeing these patterns side-by-side with the original paintings deepens our appreciation of both. Patterns in Art will be a resource for graphic designers, and a revelation for all art lovers. ...Show more