National Gallery of Australia

Cressida Campbell celebrates the career of an exceptional Australian colourist who has worked between painting and printmaking for over forty years. Combining keen observation with formal design, Campbell uses an innovative technique to create woodblock paintings and unique woodcut prints that take direct inspiration from the humble beauty of the everyday. Moving between still-life arrangements, domestic interiors, gardens, and coastal...

The Australian cubist and potter Anne Dangar (1885–1951) has occupied a unique position in art history as one of the country's most important yet underacknowledged modern artists. The National Gallery is honoured to present Anne Dangar, a publication accompanying a major retrospective exhibition celebrating Dangar's life and art through previously unknown works, new scholarship, and perspectives on her practice. Rebecca...

Ethel Carrick explores and celebrates this remarkable artist who contributed significantly to Australian and international art for over 50 years. Carrick's work radiates with luminous light, colour and energy; predominantly focusing on crowds, in all their diversity and interconnection. This publication will accompany the National Gallery exhibition Ethel Carrick, which will be the first retrospective of her work in over...

Spowers & Syme celebrates the artistic friendship of Melbourne artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme. Their prints, drawings, and paintings, remarkable for their expressive energy, capture the zeitgeist of the interwar years. This beautifully illustrated catalogue traces their stories as two women from rival media families who pioneered modern printmaking in Australia. Spowers and Syme were part of a newly...

Published to accompany the exhibition Cressida Campbell at the National Gallery of Australia, this beautiful colouring book features Campbell's extraordinary work, The Kitchen Shelf, and is suited to aspiring colourists, young and old. Packaged between beautiful cloth covers, twenty beautifully concertinaed pages unravel to reveal a full colour, 1.8-metre reproduction of The Kitchen Shelf. On the other side, a simple...

Know My Name brings together a range of works by women (cis and trans) that shed light on diverse ways of considering the stories of Australian art. With profiles and essays on more than 150 women artists written by 115 women writers, this book seeks to retell the dynamics of Australian art through the work of women to find new...

Gauguin's World: Tna Iho, Tna Ao inspires new ways of seeing and thinking about one of the most renowned artists of the nineteenth century. Revisiting Paul Gauguin at a particular moment in his life, when he was approaching death and looking back on scattered memories from his final resting place in the Marquesas Islands, Gauguin's World: Tna Iho, Tna Ao...

The year 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of Australian artist Jeffrey Smart, an artist with a distinctive vision whose work enables us to see the world around us afresh. This publication celebrates and commemorates this significant anniversary. Launched to coincide with a major exhibition of Smart's work at the National Gallery of Australia, it is a book to...

A beautifully illustrated publication that celebrates the visually arresting and technically astonishing prints of influential modernists Anni and Josef Albers, made in collaboration with master printer Kenneth Tyler. Anni and Josef Albers is the first book to support an exhibition of the artists' work in Australia. A series of original texts explore the influence of the Bauhaus on the long...

Know My Name brings together a range of works by women (cis and trans) that shed light on diverse ways of considering the stories of Australian art. With profiles and essays on more than 150 women artists written by 115 women writers, this book seeks to retell the dynamics of Australian art through the work of women to find new...

Know My Name brings together a range of works by women (cis and trans) that shed light on diverse ways of considering the stories of Australian art. With profiles and essays on more than 150 women artists written by 115 women writers, this book seeks to retell the dynamics of Australian art through the work of women to find new...

A beautifully illustrated celebration of one of the nation's most remarkable buildings - Australia's National Gallery. The story of the conception of the National Gallery of Australia building—its design, construction, and controversial aftermath—has all the qualities of a Promethean struggle. Planned in the open-minded 1970s but birthed in the more conventional 1980s, the National Gallery building has not always been...