Australian Art April 2025

  • Cressida Campbell

    # 37238

    McDONALD, John et al.

    Cressida Campbell

    Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2022. Quarto, illustrated cloth, pp. 254, illustrated. New copy. Cressida Campbell celebrates the career of an exceptional Australian colourist who has worked between painting and printmaking for over forty years. Combining keen observation with formal design, Campbell uses an innovative technique to create woodblock paintings and unique woodcut prints …

  • Nolan’s Gallipoli

    # 37227

    FRY, Gavin

    Nolan’s Gallipoli

    Adelaide: Rigby, 1983. Folio, green cloth over boards in dust jacket, 118 pages illustrated in colour, a good copy.

  • The art of Murray Walker

    # 37173

    GRISHIN, Sasha

    The art of Murray Walker

    Sydney : The Beagle Press, 2022. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 180, illustrated. New copy. Murray Walker (b. 1937 ) is a distinguished printmaker, a significant and recognised painter, a pioneering assemblage sculptor and collage artist, a ceramicist, a prolific tapestry designer and a nationally renowned and widely published authority on Australian colonial arts. His …

  • Oneiroi

    # 37134

    HENSON, Bill (1955 -)

    Oneiroi

    Melbourne : Scanlan Theodore, 2016. Quarto, lettered cloth, pp. 32, foreword by John Tatoulis, essay by Peter Craven, photographic plates by Bill Henson. Printed in a limited edition of 300 copies. ‘ONEIROI sets out to inspire discussion about what it means to be custodians of an ancient past and captures the way in which our …

  • Image 384. Portfolio '81

    # 36810

    EVANS, Joyce (1929 - 2019)

    Image 384. Portfolio ’81

    [Melbourne] : Church Street Photographic Centre, 1981. Black clamshell box, 475 x 380 mm, containing text sheet and eight original photographs mounted on cards, each signed by the photographer, one numbered in an edition of 14, suggesting that 14 portfolios were made. The photographers are Philip Cordingley, Robin Ernest Blume, Paul G. Frijlink, Chris Hughes, …

  • The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences (deluxe edition)

    # 36950

    EAGLE, Mary and MINCHIN, Jan

    The George Bell School. Students, Friends, Influences (deluxe edition)

    Melbourne : Deutscher Fine Art and Sydney: Resolution Press, 1981. Quarto, blindstamped leather bound boards, dustjacket, lacking the slipcase, 272 pages, fully illustrated, internally clean. The deluxe edition limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by twelve artists from the school on the limitation page as issued: Eric Thake, Alan Sumner, Yvonne Atkinson, Geoff Jones, Jack …

  • John Young

    # 37020

    BARNES, Carolyn

    John Young

    Melbourne : Craftsman House, 2005. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 257, illustrated. The culmination of three decades of work from one of Australia’s most engaging and prolific artists, this is the first monograph to document Young’s entire oeuvre from his first exhibition, a one minute show held in the fishing hamlet of Rosroe, Ireland through …

  • Western Australian art : a selection of early works from the Robert Holmes a Court collection (deluxe edition)

    # 36372

    ANDERSON, Roderick

    Western Australian art : a selection of early works from the Robert Holmes a Court collection (deluxe edition)

    Perth, W.A. : Heytesbury Holdings, 1986. Quarto, gilt-lettered calf, dustjacket, pp.80, illustrated, in leather slipcase. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by Robert Holmes a Court.

  • Russell Drysdale (Signed by the artist)

    # 36530

    DRYSDALE, Russell

    Russell Drysdale (Signed by the artist)

    Melbourne : Richmond Hill Press, 1979. Elephant folio, quarter leather over cloth boards, slipcase, essays, 45 full page colour plates reproducing Drysdale paintings and drawings, additional paper folio with 6 loose colour plates. Limited to 500 copies signed by the artist; a handsome folio.

  • Australia suite. Drawings by Garry Shead

    # 36428

    [SHEAD]. HARD, Lynn.

    Australia suite. Drawings by Garry Shead

    Sydney: ETT Imprint, 1998. Quarto, cloth bound boards, small mark lower board, 80pp. illustrated by Shead. Edition limited to 100 copies signed by the artist, poet and binder, with an original signed etching loosely enclosed.

  • The ghillies : Polixeni Papapetrou (signed copy)

    # 36366

    PAPAPETROU, Polixeni

    The ghillies : Polixeni Papapetrou (signed copy)

    [Melbourne] : Polixeni Papapetrou, 2013. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. 36, illustrated. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. Signed by the artist twice. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, 28 March – 25 May 2013.

  • Ramesh

    # 36463

    BABINGTON, Jaklyn (editor)

    Ramesh

    Melbourne : Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd, 2022. Quarto, laminated illustrated boards, pp. 368, illustrated. New copy. The first major monograph on the boundary-pushing work of painter and sculptor, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran. Bursting with energy and life force, this visual cornucopia celebrates the work of Sri Lankan Australian sculptor and painter, Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran, …

  • New Australian Printmaking

    # 36492

    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 …

  • Apparition (deluxe edition)

    # 35896

    BLACKMAN, Charles and ALVAREZ, Al

    Apparition (deluxe edition)

    Brisbane : University of Queensland Press, 1971. Folio, full leather with gilt-blocked Blackman design, spine lettered in gilt, in illustrated card slipcase (a little marked), pp. 52, reproduction of Alvarez’s manuscript poems and 7 full page colour plates after Blackman gouaches tipped-in. The deluxe edition, limited to 100 copies, signed by the poet and painter …

  • Jeffrey Smart. Paintings and studies 1993 - 1998 (signed copy)

    # 36179

    PEARCE, Barry

    Jeffrey Smart. Paintings and studies 1993 – 1998 (signed copy)

    Sydney : Australian Galleries, 1998. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 24, illustrated. Signed and inscribed by Jeffrey Smart on the upper panel. From the library of art curator and author David Thomas, former Keeper of Pictorial Collections, National Library of Australia, and Director of the Newcastle City Art Gallery, Australian Gallery Directors Council, Art Gallery of …

  • Lux et nox (first edition)

    # 36034

    HENSON, Bill (b. 1955)

    Lux et nox (first edition)

    Zurich : Scalo, 2002. First edition. Extended oblong folio (430mm wide), cloth in illustrated dust jacket, 175 pp. of Henson’s ethereal photography. This is the first edition, printed in Germany. It was then reprinted in Melbourne in 2008. As new copy, still sealed in plastic.