Australian Artists A-D

  • John Brack

    # 50426

    GRANT, Kirsty et al.

    John Brack

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2009. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, spine creased, light handling marks, 248 pp. fully illustrated. Contributions by Helen Brack, Sasha Grishin, Robert Lindsay and Chris McAuliffe. Printed to accompany the major touring retrospective of Brack in 2009-10, an essential reference on the artist.  

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  • Adnate : point of view 2019

    # 50423

    McGREGOR, Ken

    Adnate : point of view 2019

    Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2019. Quarto, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 224, illustrated. Mint copy. Produced in limited numbers, not in distribution. ‘With about half his work done on public walls and half on canvases, Adnate nowadays sees himself as not just a street artist or graffiti artist—simply, an artist. Matt Last (Adnate) is one of street …

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  • The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton

    # 50328

    KIRTLEY, John T.; GOODE, Cyril E.

    The flame of flesh. A sonnet sequence by Cyril E. Goode. Illustrations by Charles Crampton

    Ferntree Gully, Vic. :  John Kirtley, [1952] . Folio, maroon leather (lightly marked, scuffed at head and foot of spine), gilt lettering, light offsetting to endpapers, decorated title page, pp. [20]; with linocut illustrations by Charles Crampton, light scattered foxing. One of only fourteen hand-printed copies, numbered and signed by the author, this copy is …

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  • Blackman Paintings. November 2 to 13, 1954

    # 43559

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    Blackman Paintings. November 2 to 13, 1954

    [Melbourne] : [Mirka’s Gallery], 1954. Octavo, folded sheet, catalogue of 30 paintings with titles and prices in guineas. Fine copy. Rare. The highly ephemeral exhibition catalogue from one of Charles Blackman’s first one-man exhibitions, held at Mirka Mora’s studio attached to Mirka’s Cafe in Collins Street.  

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  • John Brack

    # 50255

    MILLAR, Ronald

    John Brack

    Melbourne : Lansdowne Press, 1971. Quarto, dustjacket over cloth, slightly sunned to spine, 109 pp. numerous tipped-in plates. A very good copy of the important early monograph on Brack.

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  • Peter Booth. Human nature

    # 50242

    BOOTH, Peter; SMITH, Jason

    Peter Booth. Human nature

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2003. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (spine sunned), pp. 152, illustrated. ‘The first major survey of work from 1970 – 2003 by one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary artists’.  

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  • The cat's plant

    # 50184

    BLACKMAN, Charles (1928 - 2018)

    The cat’s plant

    Etching and aquatint, 20 x 15 cm (plate line); 60 x 41 cm (sheet), not titled or editioned (artist’s proof, the published edition was an edition of 30 copies), signed with Blackman studio stamp lower right, a few light spots of foxing, unframed. Provenance: The estate of the late Barbara Blackman (1928 – 2024) The …

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  • James Cant 1911-1982 : retrospective

    # 50168

    RADFORD, Ryan

    James Cant 1911-1982 : retrospective

    [n.l] : Ryan Radford, [1984]. Square octavo, illustrated wrappers (creased), pp 32. Illustrated with black and white images throughout.

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  • Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)

    # 50007

    [CORRIGAN, Patrick]

    Bookplates for Pat Corrigan & Family (standard edition)

    Melbourne : Douglas Stewart Fine Books, 2014. Quarto (365 mm tall), gilt-decorated blue cloth in matching slipcase, pp 148, portrait frontispiece, signed bookplate by Andrew Sibley, essay, tipped-in photographs, forty tipped-in facsimile bookplates commissioned from Australian artists by Pat Corrigan. Limited to 200 copies signed by the author, collector and publisher; printed letterpress, with a …

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  • Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional [Gurindji] landowner Vincent Lingiari, [Daguragu/Wattie Creek] Northern Territory.

    # 49856

    BISHOP, Mervyn (b. 1945)

    Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into hand of traditional [Gurindji] landowner Vincent Lingiari, [Daguragu/Wattie Creek] Northern Territory.

    1975/2021. Edition number of 25. Digital c-type photograph, signed, dated and titled, 60 x 60 cm. Illustrated on page 81, In Dreams. Mervyn Bishop: Thirty Years of Photography, 1960-1990. Held in AGNSW, NGA. Mervyn Bishop was born in Brewarrina in 1945. He commenced a four-year photography cadetship with the Sydney Morning Herald in 1963 (where he would work for seventeen …

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  • Black, White and Colour. (Standard edition, signed by the photographer and the author)

    # 49855

    DOBBYN, Tim

    Black, White and Colour. (Standard edition, signed by the photographer and the author)

    Melbourne : Ginninderra Press, 2025. ISBN 9781761097089. Quarto, hardcover, 207 pages; offset printed on ivory silk paper for superior image reproduction and touch. Designed and typeset by Isambard Thomas. This biography of one of Australia’s treasured artists offers an intimate portrait of the struggles and triumphs of Mervyn Bishop, Australia’s ground-breaking Indigenous photographer. Born in Brewarrina …

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  • Black, White and Colour. (Deluxe edition, Format 2)

    # 49854

    DOBBYN, Tim

    Black, White and Colour. (Deluxe edition, Format 2)

    Melbourne : Ginninderra Press, 2025. Editions 71-100. ISBN 9781761097089. Quarto, hardcover, 207 pages; offset printed on ivory silk paper for superior image reproduction and touch. Designed and typeset by Isambard Thomas. This is copy number 73. Each specially bound limited edition in box contains two original signed photographs: Is there an Aboriginal photography? Self-portrait, 1989, AND Prime …

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  • The art of John Brack

    # 49895

    [BRACK]. GRISHIN, Sasha.

    The art of John Brack

    Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990. Two volumes quarto, clothbound with gilt-stamped spines in matching slipcase, a superior example with only light rubbing to the gilt, 236; 262pp. Volume one is a series of essays by Grishin on various elements of Brack’s oeuvre while volume two is a catalogue raisonne of oil paintings, works on paper …

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  • At Jupiter Creek (letters 9-12)

    # 49763

    BANFIELD, Elizabeth (1963 - )

    At Jupiter Creek (letters 9-12)

    [Melbourne: the artist, 2009]. Artist’s book. Edition 2/3, signed, titled and dated 2009 in pencil. Handmade book with black cloth covered board ends measuring 230 x 185 mm. The work becomes a concertina-fold diorama consisting of a folded sheet of rag paper with six illustrated panels. Each of the panels features handcut linocuts in the …

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  • William Delafield Cook : a survey

    # 49807

    GREGG, Simon

    William Delafield Cook : a survey

    Sale, Vic. : Gippsland Art Gallery, 2011. Second printing. Small quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 54, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. New copy. Essays by Simon Gregg and Anthony Fitzpatrick. “A Gippsland Art Gallery travelling exhibition: Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, 16 July-11 September 2011; TarraWarra Museum of Art, 15 October 2011-12 February 2012”

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  • Art, love, and life : Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox

    # 49974

    [CARRICK, Ethel; FOX, E. Phillips]

    Art, love, and life : Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox

    Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery, 2011. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, pp 174. Art exhibition monograph detailing the rich artistic relationship between Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox, with over 140 colour illustrations. A very good copy.

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