Giovanni Aloi

This groundbreaking volume unearths the representation of plants and their vital impact on art, thereby advocating for the botanical world's legitimate place in art history. Desired for their aesthetic beauty, sought after for their medicinal properties, harvested for their scents and flavours, or grown as essential material resources, plants are indissolubly entwined with our existence. In art, it is no...

Romanticised notions of how one becomes an “artist” have long been questioned. So why do we still fetishise them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusionism that characterise the art world and conforming our creative potential to well-trodden stereotypes? I'm Not an Artist is a critical appraisal of the role of the artist through time...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A quintessential feature in Western gardens and landscaping, the lawn is now at the centre of a climate change controversy. The large carbon footprint maintenance, its unquenchable thirst for fertilisers, weedkillers, and water, and the notorious unfriendliness towards all forms of wildlife have...