Australian Artists E-K

  • Life's a beach

    # 34642

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    Life’s a beach

    Melbourne : Currey O’Neil, 1983. First edition. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (bottom corner bumped with some slight crumpling to lower margin of text block), unpaginated, photographic illustrations, light handling wear, a good copy. Ellis’ candid photographs of Australian bodies on display in the hot summer sun of the eighties.

  • Collage

    # 34612

    JACKS, Robert et al

    Collage

    A book of papiers collés by Sydney Ball, Andrew Christofides, Robert Jacks, George Johnson, Inge King, Allan Mitelman. Melbourne : Jenny Zimmer, 1999. Quarto, folding clamshell box with lettered papered boards, containing the folio, printed wrappers, unpaginated, printed by Larry Rawling in folding sections, introduction by Jenny Zimmer, six folding sections printed with the artist’s …

  • Utopia : Ancient cultures, new forms

    # 34605

    [KNGWARREYE, Emily Kame]

    Utopia : Ancient cultures, new forms

    The Holmes à Court Collection in association with the Art Gallery of Western Australia. Perth, W.A. : Heytesbury Pty Ltd and the Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1999. Essays by Wally Caruana &​ Christopher Hodges. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 64, illustrated. Artworks by Emily Kame Kngwarreye. “This publication supports the exhibition … first shown at Galeri …

  • James Gleeson. Beyond the screen of sight.

    # 34560

    [GLEESON]. KLEPAC, Lou.

    James Gleeson. Beyond the screen of sight.

    With contributions by Geoffrey Smith, Ken Wach, Renee Free and Bruce James. Sydney: The Beagle Press in association with the National Gallery of Victoria, 2004. Quarto, pictorial wrappers, spine creased, 216pp. A fine monograph on Gleeson, now scarce. A very good copy.

  • Southwest Pacific sketchbook

    # 33991

    EMANUEL, Cedric (1906 - 1995)

    Southwest Pacific sketchbook

    New York : Prenticy – Hall Inc., 1945. Oblong quarto, lettered cloth (a few light stains), illustrated endpapers, approx. 60 pp., illustrated throughout by Cedric Emanuel. An artist-soldier’s view of New Guinea during the Second World War. From The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the front free endpaper (verso)

  • A quest for enlightenment : the art of Roger Kemp

    # 34156

    [KEMP]. HEATHCOTE, Christopher

    A quest for enlightenment : the art of Roger Kemp

    Melbourne : Macmillan, 2007. Quarto, cloth-covered boards, pictorial dust jacket, pp. 272, illustrated in colour throughout, text on the artist’s influences, life, work and practice including chapters ‘the war years’, ‘art and faith’ and ‘symbolising the world’. Also contains exhibition details, bibliography, and solo exhibitions. A fine copy, near mint.

  • Kenneth Jack. Across Australia 1991 - 1994

    # 34474

    KLEPAC, Lou

    Kenneth Jack. Across Australia 1991 – 1994

    Melbourne : Australian Galleries, 1994. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. 24, illustrated.

  • Kenneth Jack (signed copy)

    # 34473

    KLEPAC, Lou

    Kenneth Jack (signed copy)

    Sydney : Bay Books, 1988. Quarto, boards in dust jacket (spine sunned), pp. 164, illustrated; pale foxing to preliminaries. Signed by Kenneth Jack.

  • Decade 1970-1980

    # 34445

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    Decade 1970-1980

    Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2013. Quarto, diecut boards, pp. 255, illustrated. New copy. Winner, Best Designed Fully-illustrated Book Over $50, Designers’ Choice Book of the Year, Australian Book Designers Association 2014. ‘His photographs explore the cultures and subcultures of the decade , as well as the emerging decadence and …

  • Decadent 1980 - 2000

    # 34444

    ELLIS, Rennie (1940 - 2003)

    Decadent 1980 – 2000

    Melbourne : Hardie Grant Books and the State Library of Victoria, 2014. Quarto, diecut boards, pp. 251, illustrated. Mint copy, still in publisher’s shrinkwrap. Decadent: 1980-2000 is a photography book showcasing Rennie Ellis’ contribution to photography and social history. With an introduction by photographer and Rennie contemporary William Yang and an essay by photographer and …

  • Barbara Hanrahan : printmaker

    # 34422

    CARROLL, Alison

    Barbara Hanrahan : printmaker

    Adelaide : Wakefield Press, 1986. Quarto, illustrated card wrappers, previous owner’s name to endpaper, pp. 108, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white.

  • Rosalie Gascoigne

    # 34123

    GELLATLY, Kelly at al.

    Rosalie Gascoigne

    Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2008. Quarto, diecut wrappers, pp, 136, illustrated. New copy, sealed in shrinkwrap.

  • Rosalie Gascoigne : material as landscape

    # 34133

    [GASCOIGNE, Rosalie]. EDWARDS, Deborah

    Rosalie Gascoigne : material as landscape

    Sydney : Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 62, illustrated throughout in colour, essay on the artist by Deborah Edwards, preface by Edmund Capon, text by James Mollison and Steven Heath, includes list of plates, catalogue of works and biographical notes. Published for the exhibition held at the Art Gallery …

  • Gabori : the Corrigan collection of paintings by Sally Gabori

    # 31586

    MUNDINE, Djon and BAKER, Candida.

    Gabori : the Corrigan collection of paintings by Sally Gabori

    Melbourne : Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, corners slightly bumped, else as new (in storage since publication, not a second hand copy), illustrated endpapers, pp. 222, illustrated. Fine copy, quite scarce. Mirdidingkingathi Juwarrnda Sally Gabori was born c. 1924 on Bentinck Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria – an island inhabited by …

  • Ian Fairweather

    # 34206

    BAIL, Murray.

    Ian Fairweather

    Sydney : Bay Books, 1981. Quarto, gilt-lettered cloth in dustjacket, pp. 264, extensively illustrated. First edition. A very good copy.

  • Emily Kame Kngwarreye : utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye

    # 34057

    [KNGWARREYE]. NEALE, Margo, ELLWOOD, Tony, NISHINO, Hanako, et al.

    Emily Kame Kngwarreye : utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye

    Canberra, Australia and Japan : National Museum of Australia/ The National Museum of Art, Osaka/ The National Art Centre, Tokyo/ The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2008. Quarto, boards in pictorial dust jacket, very lightly rubbed, pp. 256, illustrated throughout in colour, exhibition catalogue in English and Japanese language for the travelling exhibition of Australian Indigenous artist Emily …