M.33

KONRAD WINKLER ISBN: 978-0-6456947-2-7 ‘N.T. 74 –77’ is a memoir: a time capsule of the Northern Territory fifty years ago, seen through the lens of Melbourne photographer Konrad Winkler. There are 89 images and 16 pages of stories of a free and easy world; of firstly teaching in the desert at Areyonga/Utju, a warm and welcoming Aboriginal community and then living in Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy, when home was the office, and the office —behind the photocopier was a bedroom of sorts.     KONRAD WINKLER N.T….. → More details

DAVID WADELTON ISBN: 978-0-6456947-7-2 ‘Front Yard’ is the third book in David Wadelton’s tender investigations into Australian suburbia and is once again designed by Yanni Florence. The focus this time is on front gardens and yards from Melbourne and some parts of regional Victoria: from highly individual and often highly eccentric elaborate presentations displaying the hard work and particular aesthetic tastes of their creators to the sometimes somewhat melancholy front gardens and yards where remnants of former owners’ efforts have fallen into neglect or disrepair. All captured with David’s affectionate…. → More details

JANINA GREEN ISBN: 978-0-6456947-4-1 Reproduction, in all its multiple and variegated meanings –whether of life or genderor images –has been at the heart of Janina Green’s practice for over 40 years.Here, old and new works collide and converse –many of them reconfigured, reimagined, rephotographed, slashed, atomised, painted over and revived –to make for a playful and intoxicating cascade of imagery. The images are accompanied by a personal and meditative text from Pippa Milne.     Janina Green: Reproduction Published by M.33, Melbourne, 2024 Edit: Helen Frajman Book design: Yanni Florence…. → More details

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

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

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, 2023 Published by M.33, Melbourne Book design: Haline Ly Text: Tammy…. → More details

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHERINE FAHD ISBN: 978-0-6484899-9-3 ‘A Story’ plays with the intimate and voyeuristic looking of social media within the pages of a photobook. The artist made an Instagram story every night for a year. The stories were made up of images she had taken on her phone and screen grabs from pictures found on the internet. Search terms such as ‘wet bodies’, ‘big eyes’ or ‘woman sweeping’ provided a starting point for directing the day’s story. The pictures are suggestive, showing bits and pieces of the body; bodies pushing together, touching,…. → More details

JULIE SHIELS This limited-edition series of 8 postcards addresses the Morrison Government’s benighted attitude towards the climate crisis. It includes 2 favourites from Julie Shiels’ book ‘The Grandmasters #Sh*tF*ckery’ and 6 new ones made subsequently. The behaviours of the powerful are thrown into sharp relief by injecting satire and humour into these deadly serious issues.     Julie Shiels The Grandmasters #Climate, 2021 8 postcards in bespoke envelope Dimensions: each postcard: 14.8 x 10.6 cm Edition of 300 Postcard set in envelope only: $12 plus gst in Australia Postcard set…. → More details

JULIE SHIELS ISBN: 978-0-6482588-8-9 Born out of the anger and frustration induced by the Australian Government’s responses to the monumental crises of the last two years, this ’quick response’ publication presents a comic yet profoundly serious investigation into the wiles, evasions, obfuscations and monumental failings of our political masters. Shiels says: ‘This book is for people who can’t stay away from politics even though it effects their mental health. At a time when the actions or inactions of the Morrison government are shaping our future, it’s hard not to want cry, implode…. → More details

DAVID WADELTON ISBN: 978-0-6484899-5-5 Small Business is a companion volume to David Wadelton’s Suburban Baroque – with the focus this time on work rather than domestic spaces. It looks at the small but enduring family-run businesses that are sadly fading away. Natalie King writes in her essay accompanying the photographs: ‘In Wadelton’s tautly composed photographs, he records interiors and an accumulation of clutter and collections. He resists styling and chic angles of home décor typically found in glossy magazines in favour of slightly shoddy, overlooked and abundant interiors with astonishing…. → More details

DAVID ROSETZKY ISBN: 978-0-6484899-4-8 This exquisite limited-edition book, designed by Anna Zagala/Sweet Polka brings together 45 photographs by artist David Rosetzky accompanied by an essay from Dr Shaune Lakin, Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia, and a Q & A between David Rosetzky and fellow artist Hoda Afshar. Rosetzky’s use of the double-exposure results in a single, combined image that is created through a process of chance – and the random placement of pictorial elements within the frame. This process enables the artist a fluid and…. → More details