PETER MILNE ISBN: 978-0-6456947-5-8 ‘Death of an Idea’ consists of a selection of the postcard sized photo collages shown earlier this year at Peter Milne’s acclaimed exhibition at One Star Gallery. Created by the artist initially as a warm up exercise for a larger project, each work is made with a combination of found material, recycled images from Milne’s own archive and a line of text cut out from the seminal, but now dated, art historic text ‘Civilization’ by Kenneth Clark. The result is surreal and unnerving, but as always with…. → More details
CRUISING FOR A BRUISING
BY KYLE ARCHIE KNIGHT ISBN: 978-0-6456947-6-5 ‘Cruising for a Bruising’ is a camp love letter to the Australian Suburbs. Growing up queer in outer-metropolitan Naarm (Melbourne), Kyle Archie Knight found themselves drawn to explore the streets of their family neighbourhood. Their search for moments that capture the essence of suburbia results in a celebration of the surreal and the mundane, the humorous and the humdrum. Knight delves into family archives and reconnects with past memories of estrangement, finding humour and delight in what was once alienating and suffocating. Kyle…. → More details
CANCELLED AND REMOVED
TAMMY LAW ISBN: 978-0-6456947-0-3 ‘Cancelled & Removed’ explores the stories of those affected by forced migration from Australia. The project was sparked by the artist’s own family experiences and is presented through a multilayered narrative, using delicate visual language in combination with a variety of texts including contributions from individuals who have been directly affected by Australia’s detention and deportation legislation, as well as essays from Law’s siblings, writers Benjamin Law and Michelle Law. Tammy Law: Cancelled and Removed Published by M.33, Melbourne Book design: Haline Ly Text: Tammy Law,…. → More details
TREES AND FENCES
YANNI FLORENCE ISBN: 978-0-6482588-6-5 ‘Geometries of segregation are also bodies in the world. The trees as tall below as above strain for the centre’ Justin Clemens, from the poem Trees and Fences ‘Musingly looking at these photographs of trees and fences caused me to recall the following well-known statement from Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars…. → More details