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Janine Burke and Helen Hughes (Eds.)
How one woman helped shape the Australian art world.
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Janine Burke
Joy Hester was the only woman member of the Angry Penguins, Melbourne’s radical art coterie of the war years. Sunday Reed was her closest friend, a wealthy and charismatic patron…
Join award-winning author and art historian Janine Burke in this enchanting and illuminating meander along forest trails within art, myth, history and present day.
Personal View Photographs: 1978–1986 is a casual, intimate, visual memoir that includes Albert Tucker, Betty Churcher, Sue Ford, Allan Mitelman, Jenny Watson, Shane Maloney, John Nixon, Frances Lindsay and Paul…
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There are many things that might happen when a woman is experiencing a long dark night of the soul: being whisked off to sunny Tuscany is rarely one of them…
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Born into one of Melbourne’s prominent establishment families, Sunday Baillieu was expected to become a society princess. But she turned her back on privileged and created a life entirely her…
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Part natural history, part folklore, part exploration of art and aesthetics, part memoir, Nest is a beautiful book that will appeal to bird lovers, readers of literature and art lovers…
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A brilliant and ground-breaking exploration of the crucial role of nature in shaping and inspiring our most enduring artists and writers including Monet, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso…
The narratives in My Forests are a pleasure to read; like strolling down a meandering track through the trees, you never quite know what you'll discover around that next bend…
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One of Australia’s most significant and influential artists, and a member of the Angry Penguins group which included Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, and Joy Hester, Tucker is remembered for his…
A biography of Joy Hester, the Australian woman artist married to Albert Tucker, who ran off with Guy Grey Smith, was a friend of Sunday Reed, and part of the…
Amy Walsh,Janine Burke
Features 10 quilt projects that use squares and rectangles with results that everyone love. This title shows you how to alter patterns for a different look by resizing the blocks…
The masterminds behind Blue Underground Studios bring you ten colorful, new quilt projects that are perfect for your cherished scraps, a new collection of fat quarters, or just a wild…
