Vanessa Finney

Trade Illustration Selection in the 2020 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020 Best Designed Nonfiction Book (inc. Scholarly and References) Highly Commended in the AAANZ Arts Writing and Publishing Awards, Best Medium Exhibition Catalogue category The groundbreaking scientific photographs of Australian Museum curator Gerard Krefft and taxidermist Henry Barnes are revealed for the first...

The fascinating story of the Scott sisters, who transformed nature into art in their extraordinary paintings of butterflies and moths. With their collecting boxes, notebooks and paintbrushes, Harriet and Helena Scott entered the masculine worlds of science and art and became two of nineteenth-century Australia's most prominent natural history painters. Transformations tells the complete story of the Scott sisters: their...