MIA MALA MCDONALD ISBN: 978-0-6484899-6-2 ‘Once in a Lullaby’ is Mia Mala McDonald’s long-awaited book of photographic portraits and interwoven stories of Australian LGBTQIA+ families. The contributions shared by participants are reflections on the politics of family, the complex processes of having children, family, loss, love, and what it is to be human. The book is as much about what it means to be an Australian as it is about sexuality. The project was born of a frustration felt by Mia during the 2017 Australian marriage plebiscite. She was deeply…. → More details
OBJECTS
MEREDITH TURNBULL ISBN: 978-0-9924302-9-0 ‘Objects’ by Meredith Turnbull, is a survey publication of 14 years of photographs of Meredith’s constructed tableaux. Since the mid 1990s Meredith Turnbull has been making and photographing objects and began exhibiting these artworks publicly in 2005. Her photographs of the objects that she has constructed, and the environments she creates for these objects, offer a unique investigation into her ongoing interests in mis-en-scene for object-things, tableaux, still life, and the relationship between sculpture, images and the body. ‘Objects’ explores Meredith’s unique combined approach to sculpture, photography,…. → More details
GREATER MELBOURNE
DAVID WADELTON ISBN: 978-0-6482588-3-4 From 2010 -2016 David Wadelton drove all around Melbourne photographing and accumulating suburban typologies. He used the virtually obsolete medium of black and white film to capture fading institutions such as milk bars and newsagents. In the course of these travels, his attention sometimes strayed from his primary focus to unforeseen views. Gradually, and without any plan, a collection began to form. With tongue-in-cheek, he named it Greater Melbourne, after the street directory that was in every car before the advent of GPS devices. David Wadelton:…. → More details
NIGHTSHADE
WENDY CATLING ISBN: 978-0-6482588-5-8 ‘Nightshade’ is a restrained and poetic exploration of a particularly difficult and confronting subject – domestic violence and coercive control. Wendy Catling examines her mother’s experiences during her 20-year relationship with Catling’s father. The publication which traverses the many addresses lived at by the artist and her parents and uses a mixture of archival and contemporary imagery interspersed with brief snatches of memories related by Catling’s mother, has been sensitively designed by Kim Mumm Hansen to form a darkly moving and compelling personal narrative with universal…. → More details
DAVID WADELTON: SUBURBAN BAROQUE
DAVID WADELTON ISBN 978-0-6484899-1-7 ‘Suburban Baroque’ brings together a selection of David Wadelton’s photographs of the vanishing mid-century suburban interiors of the formerly working-class northern areas that were the destination of choice for many post-war immigrants from Europe. The once-ubiquitous terrazzo, balustrades, marble columns and lions and other manifestations of pride and nostalgia for their homelands have become increasingly rare as the years pass, generations change, and gentrification takes place. The rooms are redolent of a different era and imbued with pathos, as most were the pride and joy of…. → More details
OTHER STORIES – Updated
Jane Burton ISBN: 978-0-9871670-2-6 Jane Burton’s Other Stories is a collection of photographs that are intended to be experienced as a series of loose associations rather than determined narratives. Structured with five chapters like a fairy-tale collection, each series is toned in a different colour – reminiscent of old photographic processes and hand-colouring techniques. The atmosphere common to all the stories is cinematic and dreamlike. Saturated with colour (peach-sepia, red, viridian green, lavender, and blue), each has its own emotional pitch and temperature; the ‘story’ is non-linear, non-literal, falling instead…. → More details
FUGITIVE TEXT
PETER MALONEY ISBN: 978-0-6484899-8-6 ‘Fugitive Text’ draws together photographic diptychs and triptychs made since the mid-1990s in response to the artist’s experience of love, desire and loss through the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It incorporates photographs taken in-camera as well as images drawn from a variety of sources, including vintage photographs found in flea markets and images re-photographed from pornography and popular culture. The images draw on Peter Maloney’s experience of the HIV/AIDS pandemic (as an HIV-positive person who lost much of their social group during the 1980s and early 1990s) and…. → More details
APÓKRYPHOS – v2
CHERINE FAHD ISBN: 978-0-6484899-0-0 Apókryphos is a deeply moving study of the ways in which grief and mourning are visualised, experienced and witnessed. Using image and text Fahd reproduces 24 photographs taken in 1975 of her grandfather’s funeral and burial. Through annotations, footnotes and redacted text she forensically yet intimately guides the reader through the mysteries of the event captured, offering a literary response to the photographs and to the unknown status of the photographer. Apókryphos continues Fahd’s interest in the book as artwork. This new publication is a unique…. → More details
THE HAND OF AN ARMLESS STATUE
GRACE WOOD ISBN: 978-0-6482588-4-1 ‘The hand of an armless statue’ features 55 newly created artworks and continues Grace Wood’s compulsive practice of mining the internet for images, recontextualising them and giving them new meaning. Wood throws images and words into search engines and…. → More details
‘THE GRANDMASTERS II: #LAST_DAYS’ BY JULIE SHIELS
JULIE SHIELS ISBN: 978-0-6482588-9-6 Critiques of power and politics have been the subject of painting across historical epochs and cultures. The parodies in the Grandmasters series build on this rich tradition to invite us to reflect on the behaviours of those who hold high office. The first volume in the series, ‘The Grandmasters #Sh*tf*ckery’, was born out of anger and despair during Covid. But even as the pandemic eased, the excuses and avoidances of the Morrison government on women, refugees and climate continued to shock. ‘The Grandmasters II #Last_days’ captures…. → More details
A PORTRAIT
ROD McNICOL ISBN: 978-0-6484899-7-9 ‘A Portrait’ is the first comprehensive publication of Rod McNicol’s distinctive portraits, ranging from those of his peers in his first exhibition in 1978, through to his now iconic ‘time’ series and his acclaimed portraits of the ever – changing denizens of his neighbourhood or his ‘village’ as he terms it. Each image is rooted in a time and place but shares a rigorous approach and a disciplined formality reminiscent of the mug shot. But in contrast to the sterility of the mug shot, each of…. → More details