Australian Artists Q-Z
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# 50106
WALLER, Christian
The gates of dawn
Melbourne : Gryphon Books, 1978. Octavo, illustrated wrappers in card dustjacket, unpaginated, illustrated. Limited to 1000 copies. Small format facsimile of Waller’s rare art deco period children’s book.
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# 50084
YANG, William et al.
William Yang : Seeing and Being Seen
Brisbane : Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), 2021. Reprinted 2022. Quarto, gilt-lettered pictorial boards, pp. 220, extensively illustrated. Queensland-born, Sydney-based photographer William Yang’s significant contribution to Australian photography spans five decades. Known for his reflective and joyous depictions of Australia’s LGBTQI scene in the late 70s and 80s through to the …
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# 50341
McGREGOR, Ken; HENDERSON, Geoff
Tommy Yannima Pikarli Watson : the master colourist
Melbourne : Badger Editions, 2023. Folio, illustrated laminated boards, pp. 314, illustrated. Designed by Jenny Zimmer. New copy, still sealed in shrink-wrap. Scarce.
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# 50042
FRY, Gavin; KLEPAC, Lou
Margaret Woodward
Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2020. Revised edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, 310 x 250 mm., pp. 168, 102 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and photographs. The softcover edition. Margaret Woodward is recognised as a distinctly original artist. Winner of the Wynne Prize, and many other awards. This book explains how her highly …
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# 50041
RANKIN, David
David Rankin. The walls of the heart
Melbourne : Metro 5 Gallery, 2001. Quarto, illustrated folding card, 8 pages. Essay by David Thomas about the artist. Price list enclosed.
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# 50040
ASHTON, Dore
The walls of the heart : the life and work of David Rankin (signed presentation copy for Yvonne Audette)
= Die Mauern des Herzens : Leben und Werk von David Rankin. Wien : Christian Brandstätter, 2001. Quarto, fine black boards in like dust jacket, 111 pp, colour illustrations, a fine copy. Parallel text in English and German. Signed and inscribed by the artist on the title page ‘For dear Yvonne with my love and …
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# 50038
ROBINSON, William (1936 - 2025)
William Robinson. Paintings and works on paper
Brisbane : Philip Bacon Galleries, 2001. Folio, illustrated wrappers, handling creases, pp. 10, illustrated, text by Lou Klepac, price list.
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# 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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# 49976
[WHITELEY]. PEARCE, Barry, ROBERTSON, Bryan and WHITELEY, Wendy.
Brett Whiteley : art & life
Sydney : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1995. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 240, contains 180 colour and 40 monochrome plates, foreword by Edmund Capon, text by Bryan Robertson, Barry Pearce and an interview between Barry Pearce and Wendy Whiteley. Edges foxed, a few light marks to preliminaries, a good reference copy.
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# 49969
THOMPSON, Christian (1978 - )
Ritual intimacy.
Caulfield East, Vic. : Monash University Museum of Art, 2017. Reprinted 2019. Small quarto (230 x 170 mm), pictorial card covers, 128 pp, 92 pages of colour plates of indigenous multidisciplinary artist Christian Thompson’s work; catalogue essays by Charlotte Day, Brian Catling and Marina Warner; Christian Thompson and Hetti Perkins in conversation; an as new …
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# 49906
THOMAS, Rover
Roads cross. The paintings of Rover Thomas
With Kim Akerman, Mary Macha, Will Christensen and Wally Caruana. Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 1994. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (light handling creases), pp. 64, , light foxing, illustrated. A good copy. Includes text written by Rover Thomas.
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# 49904
THOMAS, Rover (1926 - 1998)
Rover Thomas. I want to paint.
Perth : Heytesbury Pty. Ltd. trading as Holmes à Court Gallery, 2003. Oblong quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 84, illustrated, small mark to endpaper, text block slightly creased, a good copy. Catalogue of exhibition that is a tribute to one of Australia’s great artists Rover Thomas. The catalogue also offers the reader an insight into the …
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# 49903
STOKES, Constance
Constance Stokes retrospective exhibition
Swan Hill : Swan Hill Regional Art Gallery, 1985. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, lightly marked, pp. [50], illustrated in colour and black and white.
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# 49796
STREETON, Sir Arthur Ernest (1867-1943)
Sir Arthur Streeton’s Sketchbook. Docklands & London 1905
Notes by Harold A. E. Day. Hobart : Hobart Press, 1994. Oblong quarto, gilt-lettered leather, pp. 70, illustrated, a few light marks, a fine copy, signed and dated by the author. Written, designed and published by art historian Harold Day, this elegant publication reproduces an original sketchbook by Sir Arthur Streeton in detail with notes …
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# 49975
COTTER, Julie
Tom Roberts & the art of portraiture
Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2015. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 448, extensively illustrated. New copy. ‘Tom Roberts is a household name across the entire Australian arts-interested population and beyond. His portraits have never been the subject of a book. Those portrayed are figures in the nations history and lead-up to Federation in 1901, and …
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# 49762
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia. A Quarterly Magazine. Third Series, Number Two
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Bertram Stevens. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1922. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers (light sunning, some minor chipping), unpaginated, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, an excellent copy. Includes essay by A.G. Stephens on Henry Lawson; essay by Hugh McCrae titled ‘Book-Weather’; essay by Lionel Lindsay on The …