Australian Women Artists

  • Modernism and Feminism : Australian women artists 1900-1940

    # 47051

    TOPLISS, Helen

    Modernism and Feminism : Australian women artists 1900-1940

    Sydney : Craftsman House, 1996. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 232, illustrated. A fine copy. “This book answers the question posed by a number of male art historians and critics: ‘Why were there so many influential women artists in the inter-war period?’ The book establishes a female context for women’s art in Australia and demonstrates …

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  • Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic

    # 47049

    HICKS, Petrina; CROMBIE, Isobel; QUIRK, Maria

    Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2019. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. Fine copy. Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic is the first in-depth study of the work of Australian artist Petrina Hicks. Since 2003, Hicks has developed a highly distinctive body of work that combines her background as a commercial photographer with her interest …

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  • Light sensitive : contemporary Australian photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund

    # 47048

    SMORGON, Loti & Victor

    Light sensitive : contemporary Australian photography from the Loti Smorgon Fund

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2006. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (illustrated with a photograph by Petrina Hicks), pp. 112, illustrated with works by Brook Andrew, Darren Sylvester, Patricia Piccinini, Matthew Sleethe, Scott Redford, Pat Brassington, Deborah Paauwe and others.

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  • Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.

    # 47045

    Sydney Ure Smith.

    Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.

    Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1937. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers with Margaret Preston design, 88pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, very clean internally, a fine copy. Features articles on Arthur Streeton’s recent works, the Archibald Competition, Mary Edwards. Also includes colour and black and …

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  • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

    # 47040

    MADDISON, Ruth

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

    Melbourne : Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2021. Octavo, illustrated gatefold wrappers, unpaginated, approx. 200 pp., illustrated. A fine copy, as new. Scarce. ‘Spanning close to 200 pages, this landmark publication sits alongside Maddison’s exhibition as a key survey of her social documentary practice from 1976 to the current day. Covering key periods within Maddison’s extensive …

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  • Stars in the river : the prints of Jessie Traill

    # 47038

    TRAILL, Jessie

    Stars in the river : the prints of Jessie Traill

    edited by Roger Butler ; with essays by Tim Bonyhady, Rebecca Edwards, Sarina Noordhuis-Fairfax and Macushla Robinson. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Gallery of Australia, 2013. Quarto, illustrated gatefold wrappers, pp. 176, illustrated. Includes a reproduction of Traill’s bookplate. This eagerly awaited publication celebrates the artistic career of one of Australia’s most important printmakers of the …

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  • New Australian Printmaking

    # 47017

    SPRAGUE, Quentin et al.

    New Australian Printmaking

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2022. Quarto, boards, pp. 208, illustrated. New copy. New Australian Printmaking, a project by the NGV and Australian Print Workshop, features new work by artists Megan Cope, Shaun Gladwell, Tim Maguire and Patricia Piccinini, each a recipient of an Australian Print Workshop Artist Fellowship. With varied experiences in printmaking, these …

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  • A book about Australian women

    # 47014

    JERREMS, Carol (1949 - 1980); FRASER, Virginia (1947 - 2021)

    A book about Australian women

    Photographs by Carol Jerrems. Text edited by Virginia Fraser. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a few light creases and lightly marked), pp. 141; [3], illustrated in black and white, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary small gift inscription dated 1974, a very good copy. Design and layout of the photographic pages by Carol …

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  • Olive Cotton Photographer

    # 47005

    [COTTON]. ENNIS, Helen

    Olive Cotton Photographer

    Photographs and captions by Olive Cotton, with an introduction by Helen Ennis and a personal memoir by Sally McInerney. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2005 (reprint). Folio, illustrated wrappers, 72pp. illustrated by Cotton’s superb black and white photography.  

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  • The flower hunter Ellis Rowan

    # 46988

    FULLERTON, Patricia and SMITH, Bernard

    The flower hunter Ellis Rowan

    Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2007. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. vi; 106, illustrated.

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  • The cynic’s autograph book No. 2

    # 46933

    [LINDSAY, Ruby]. "Celt"

    The cynic’s autograph book No. 2

    Illustrations by Ruby Lind. London : Gay & Hancock, 1913. Duodecimo, decorated boards, pp. 95, illustrations. A book of pithy phrases with space for supporters to sign their autograph (none in this example). Scarce illustrated work by Ruby Lindsay.

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  • Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir

    # 46932

    BARNETT, P. Neville

    Woodcut book-plates coming out party souvenir

    Sydney : very privately printed, ‘saxteenth Octember, thirty-four’. Quarto, printed wrappers, stringbound, pp. [32], illustrations of bookplates by Phyllis Shillito, Freda Robertshaw, George Hay and many others. limited to 150 copies signed by the author. A humorous and amusing printed souvenir for Barnett’s larger work on Woodcut Book Plates.

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  • Send me a lullaby

    # 46930

    PHILLIPS, Emma

    Send me a lullaby

    Melbourne : Photo Australia x Perimeter Editions (Melbourne), 2021. Quarto, illustrated  boards, pp. 48, photographically illustrated. Send me a lullaby is a love letter to a city undergoing immense change, created during a period of both urban transformation and global upheaval. Emma Phillips was commissioned by Photo Australia to make a photographic portrait of Melbourne …

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  • [MELBOURNE] The Women's Gallery 1st Anniversary ... Saturday 22nd July 1989 ...

    # 46548

    THE WOMEN'S GALLERY

    [MELBOURNE] The Women’s Gallery 1st Anniversary … Saturday 22nd July 1989 …

    Fitzroy, Vic. : The Women’s Gallery, 375 Brunswick Street, 1989. A4 sheet, printed recto only; very good condition. Flyer inviting ‘members & friends … to join us at the Gallery for supper / concert / dance / Moira Macdonald & Mojo Blues Band / with guest speaker Janine Burke’. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia …

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  • Women's Art Register. Catalogue of slides.

    # 46525

    WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)

    Women’s Art Register. Catalogue of slides.

    Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [May, 1983]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [2], 6, [8 index of Information Folders]; roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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  • Women's Art Register Extension Project. Catalogue of slides.

    # 46526

    WOMEN'S ART REGISTER (Melbourne)

    Women’s Art Register Extension Project. Catalogue of slides.

    Richmond, Vic. : Women’s Art Register, [1983?]. Foolscap folio (295 x 210 mm), stapled illustrated wrappers, pp. [7]; roneo-printed; light creasing, Virginia’ Fraser’s annotations in pencil. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.

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