Grace McQuilten

Variations is a term that embraces difference and is core to the excitement and uniqueness of art practice. This book gives much-deserved attention to the work of artists with exceptional and varied lived experiences—including neurodiversity, diverse mental health, incarceration, and refugee, migrant, and Muslim backgrounds—to transform how we understand contemporary visual art. The book’s goal is recognising, appreciating, and analysing...

dây/dó (here/there) explores how transnational collaboration in the Asia-Pacific can sustain craft knowledge, cultural heritage, and livelihoods in a time of ecological and social precarity. Bringing together critical scholarship and creative practice, the book examines cross-cultural exchange as both a possibility and a problem: a space for reciprocal learning and innovation, but also one that can reproduce colonial hierarchies of...