Collection: Reference

Details the previously untold history and experiences of Aboriginal children removed from their families to live and work at the Marella Aboriginal Mission Farm in suburban western Sydney from 1953 to 1978.

Presents photographs from a series of exhibitions presented by the Mapplethorpe Foundation between 2003 and 2009, each curated by an invited artist. Also includes brief interviews with each artist/curator.

A guide to early printed maps of Australia, Antarctica and the South Pacific.

The latest satellite images provide a spectacula panorama of the earth's surface as viewed from space. A detailed map at the same scale accompanies each satellite image, enabling like-for-like comparison between the two views.

20th century modernist artist Margo Lewers (1908-1978) refused to be constrained by the traditional roles of women as wives and mothers. While embracing the technological and social advances of a new era, she also challenged the convention of art as representation, believing that creativity requi...

From the 1920s Preston moved to the forefront of Australian progressive art, producing a body of work that has remained important to the traditions of Australian art. Covers her life and art from the mid 1890s in Adelaide to her death in 1963

Olley was an Australian painter who was the subject of more than 90 solo exhibitions. Her work concentrated on still life. In 2006 she donated works to the NSW Art Gallery. This book takes us on a journey from her formative years to her final period

""Margaret Bourke-White is best known as the first staff photographer of Fortune magazine, the first female war correspondent, and the woman whose photographs made the covers of Life magazine famous.""