Artful Lives: The Cohen Sisters by Penny Olsen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art & design
From Melbourne to the Islands - The Artful Lives of the Cohen Sisters 'Romance is in all of us. We long to fashion romantic careers for ourselves. We yearn to read those of others, whether they be of love, life, wealth' -so wrote artist-journalist Valerie Frankel Cohen in 1936. The Cohen sisters lived ...Show more
Makura Illustration Card Book: Peculiar Antique Dreamworld (Japanese only, mostly visual) by Makura Kurama (Artist)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Art & design
The beautiful fantasy story about antiques, Peculiar Antique Dreamworld, is now an illustration card book.Peculiar Antique Dreamworld, the illustrations, and story published by the popular creator Makura Kurama on the PIE COMIC ART website for the past year and a half, is now an illustration card book. ...Show more
Rings (Victoria and Albert Museum) by Rachel Church
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art & design | Series: Accessories Ser.
An engaging and authoritative overview of the evolution of ring design from the Middle Ages to today, illustrated with over 170 rare and luxurious examples. Rings are powerfully evocative pieces of jewelry, traditionally worn as symbols of love, loyalty, remembrance or faith. Focusing on the V&A's ...Show more
Seeing Things - The Small Wonders of the World According to Writers, Artists and Others by Charles Boyle (text); Julian Rothenstein (Editor); Cornelia Parker (Foreword by)
$51.95 AUD
Category: Art & design
A captivating compendium of everyday moments of surprise and joy from the Instagram pages of David Byrne, Jarvis Cocker, Nicole Eisenman, Garth Greenwell, William Kentridge and many more A sunset. A famous writer at the door. A fire hydrant that casts a beguiling shadow. A sinister note from a hotel cl ...Show more
Botanical Block Printing - A Creative Step-By-step Handbook to Make Art Inspired by Nature by Rosanna Morris
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art & design
Discover the world of botanical block printing through an approachable guide that unveils a plethora of practical techniques and processes. This guide invites you to create stunning prints inspired by the natural world, all crafted by your own hands.Recent years have seen a surge in the popularity of li ...Show more
B: a Year in Plagues and Pencils by Edward Carey (Illustrator); Max Porter (Introduction by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art & design
'I blame the pencil. I hadn't meant to do it. I wasn't thinking. It just happened that way.' In March 2020, as lockdowns were imposed around the world, author and illustrator Edward Carey published a sketch on social media with a plan to keep posting a drawing a day from his family home in Austin, Texas ...Show more
How to Write About Contemporary Art by Gilda Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art & design | Reading Level: very good
How to Write About Contemporary Art is the definitive guide to writing engagingly about the art of our time. Invaluable for students, arts professionals and other aspiring writers, the book first navigates readers through the key elements of style and content, from the aims and structure of a piece to i ...Show more
What Makes Great Art : 80 Masterpieces Explained by Lucinda Andy; Hawksley Pankhurst
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art & design
Why do some artworks stand out head and shoulders above others? Exceptional art somehow satisfies at a deeper level than the rest. What Makes Great Art showcases a selection of 80 outstanding paintings and sculptures from around the world and throughout time, assessing just what it is that makes them so ...Show more
The Ransom Note Sticker Book by Luke Herriott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Art & design
A chunky sticker book with thousands of individual letters that can be turned into uniquely idiosyncratic messages or decorations of all kinds. Everyone loves the cool graphic look of the classic ransom note, and letters cut from newspapers make any message a little edgy yet playful. Now The Ransom Note ...Show more
How to Journal Like an Artist - A Beginner's Guide to Keeping a Sketch Journal by Jane Maday
$34.99 AUD
Category: Art & design
An illustrated how-to guide from bestselling author Jane Maday that teaches readers how to keep a sketch journal, full of step-by-step instructions, tips and techniques, and creative prompts. There's more than one way to keep a journal. How to Journal Like an Artist will teach you everything you need t ...Show more
Odd Roads to be Walking: 156 Women who shaped Australian Art by Paul Finucane, Catherine Stuart
$90.00 AUD
Category: Art & design
'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting.' So wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse. While the life journeys of many artists can be described as 'odd roads', few were as original and challenging as those of the pioneering Australian women of art from the late 19th ...Show more
Heather Dorrough: Life. Design. Craft. Art. Life by TERRY DORROUGH
$70.00 AUD
Category: Art & design
" I want to produce work which is really strong and yet very delicate I want to express the female strength" This richly illustrated book tells of the exceptional career of Sydney artist Heather Dorrough. Born in London 1933, she trained in interior design at the Royal college of Art, and worked on majo ...Show more