Anthony Pryor: Sculpture & drawings, 1974-1991

This is a story of the remarkable achievements of a gifted young sculptor who did not live to see his last major work, the 19-metre high sculpture The Legend, installed at the entrance to the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Multi-authored, the book offers essays on the various aspects of his career. Writers include Joannna Capon, Judith Trimble, Daryl Jackson and others. The more than 200 photographs, including photographic essays by John Gollings and Viki Petherbridge, cover almost the complete oeuvre, with the sculptures photographed in Pryor's studio, in art galleries and the public spaces where they are installed. Many are captured from several angles. Anthony Pryor's life and works provide a role model for young people with ambitions in the creative arts.

Anthony Pryor: Sculpture & Drawings, 1974-1991

Arts & Photography

Zimmer, Jenny

History & Criticism

Macmillan Education/Palgrave Macmillan

Art catalogue showcasing the work of Anthony Pryor (1974-91), a sculptor in wood, metal and marble. Contains nine essays from fellow artists, outlining Pryor's happy childhood where his father encouraged creativity, his schooling in engineering studies and his love for the outdoors. He changed his career course enrolling in 1973 at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology studying sculpture and completed a Fellowship Diploma of Art. He also travelled and worked in Amsterdam and Tuscany. Copiously illustrated with colour photos and drawings. Simultaneously published in hardcover and paperback.

Macmillan

In 2002, Ben Quilty won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship and journeyed to Paris where he imbibed the colour and atmosphere so eloquently expressed by Henri Matisse who, along with the British artists Frank Auerbach and Leo Kossoff, greatly influenced the young artist's approach to colour, form and line. The Paris drawings, rapidly sketched in oil bar on linen, came close to the 'drawing with paint' that is the hallmark of Quilty's approach. While his influences have been European, part of Quilty's mission is to find subjects that explore Australia's cultural identity. Thus, partly tongue-in-cheek, he embarked on a series of paintings dedicated to the Holden Torana and its importance to Australia's testosterone-driven youth. Equally confronting are his Budgerigars, harmless and endearing at first glance, but in effect painted as a protest against mutant selective breeding programs undertaken to serve the collectors' market. As a young artist, at times quite irreverent in his approach, he believes fervently in developing the necessary skills of drawing and painting and, as a portrait painter, has more than once been a finalist in the Archibald Prize. Quirky as his approach to painting can sometimes be, he believes it is possible to gather inspiration and enlightenment by osmosis; by observing places once inhabited by persons of genius. Hence his fascination with 'painters' places' in Australia- like Hill End and Heidelberg, or with Paris and the colourful presence of Mattise. This Macmillan Mini-Art book, the third in the series, shows how art can be quite radical without abandoning its foundations.

Ben Quilty (The Macmillan Mini-Art Series)

McGregor, Ben

Macmillan Art Publishers

Townsville-based artist Tate Adams is renowned for his wood engravings, a form of printmaking he first practised while illustrating limited edition books for Ireland's famous Dolmen Press. In Australia, he initiated something of a revolution in the art of printmaking through his teaching at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology from 1960-1982, and his establishment of the Crossley Gallery with early exhibitions of prints by artists such as Fred Williams, John Brack, George Baldessin and many others. He also established, with George Baldessin, the Lyre Bird Press for the publication of limited edition artists' books. During the past decade he has moved from the miniature art of wood engraving, in which he is an internationally acknowledged master, to the painting of large scale gestural works executed in gouache on paper. The vitality of these recent works is astonishing. This Mini-Book, No 15 in Macmillan Art Publishing's series, provides an overview of Tate Adams's art in both wood engraving and the recent abstract painting.

Tate Adams: Mini Book No 15 (Macmillan Mini-Art Series)

Thomas, Frances

Thomson, Frances

Macmillan Art Publishing

Rendi (Tower) Liu was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, P.R. China in September 1960 and migrated to Melbourne in January 1990. The name Tower is a translation from his Chinese name Di into English for easy pronunciation. A self-taught photographer, he began to practice the art form in 1980 and had his first works published in Nanjing in 1982. His photographs have since been exhibited in China, America, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. In 1997 he was the winner of a nation-wide photography competition for Landcare Australia. The photographs of Australian native flowers contained in this book have been collated over the past twelve years during which he has undertaken extensive travel throughout the country in search of subjects. Rendis commitment and passion for the Australian landscape and native flowers, and his acute response to their shapes, colours, structures and forms, is clearly expressed within these beautifully presented photographs.

Rendi Liu: Mini Book #18 (Macmillan Mini-Art)

The Man In the Mirror and Other Strangers: Looking at Alzheimer’s Disease through the Life and Experiences of a Caregiver Wife

Parenting & Relationships

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