Collection: Penrith Gallery

This comprehensive study of the development of design during the twentieth century provides an ideal introduction to art and design for students.

Pencil sketching is the most important skill the beginner artist can learn. It is the basis for successful painting in watercolours and oils, as well as being a wonderful art form in its own right.

Traditionally Australian landscape art has depicted a sunburnt country and wide open spaces. Here seven artists depicting the Tasmanian landscape are faced with a different reality and an island of unique environmental diversity.

Based on an exhibition titled 'Jan Senbergs: from screenprinter to painter' which was held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, from 5th April - 25th May 2008. He is know for his gritty urban and industrial images.

Written to accompany an exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. This book recalls the career of the Australian opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland.

A catalogue of an exhibition based around the paintings, drawings and gouaches created by Julie Harris from 1975 to 2006. It introduced her significant body of artwork to a wider public for the first time.

The theory of perspective is abstract by nature and it's construction can be laborious for the novice. This title provides a history of the topic and more than just an explaination of perspective pictures and their geometric principles.

A catalogue of an exhibition of works recently acquired for the MCA's permanent collection. Celebrating the material and conceptual diversity of Australian art today, the exhibition spanned painting, watercolour, sculpture, photography, film and video.

Origins of this exhibition and catalogue lie in Percy Grainger's sketch of a garnent in1904. It was held as part of the Woolmark Melbourne Fashion Festival at the Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne , 16 February - 4 April 1999.

Based on a major art exhibition, which toured Australia in 1995/96. The book documents the life of Mary MacKillop and the work of some of Australia's leading artists who have convincingly interpreted her contribution to Australian society.