The artist’s lunch : at home with Australia’s most celebrated artists

Text : Alice McCormick; photography : Sarah Rhodes. Foreword by Margaret Olley. Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2008. Quarto, boards in dustjacket (lightly marked), pp. 231, illustrated. A fine copy.

“Join photographer Sarah Rhodes and writer Alice McCormick as they meet up for lunch with 18 of Australias most lauded artists. From beans on toast with Margaret Olley to a sumptuous garden lunch with Jeffrey Smart, Alice and Sarah use food as a launching pad to explore the personalities, beliefs, history, habitats and the work of each artist so that we can understand what fuels their creativity”- the publisher.

The artists included are Margaret Olley, Luke Sciberras, Tim Storrier, Dorothy Napangardi, John Olsen, Jason Benjamin, Philip Wolfhagen, Jeffrey Smart, Tim Maguire, Savanhdary Vongpoothorn, Allen Mitelman, Michael Zavros, Anne Zahalka, Nell, Salvatore Zofrea, Wendy Sharpe, Fred Cress, and Mirka Mora.