Form/Genre: Pictorial works

The winning and shortlisted images from the 2020 AGNPOTY competition.

Discover Australia's unique animals through Pete Cromer's bold and beautiful animal portraits. This gallery-in-a-book features 18 of his best-loved Australian bird and mammal collages.

This is Australia through the eyes of one of our most gifted photographers. Rex Dupain's country is a place of iconic but nameless landscapes and astonishing visual contradictions. Dupain reintroduces us to the bush, coast and suburbs of a diverse country

Australia presents 160 of Bruce Postle’s most iconic portraits of our country from the past 50 years. It’s a fascinating insight into the heart and soul of a nation, capturing the essence of what makes our country unique: from first Australians to new arrivals, larrikinism to Anzac spirit, ghost ...

Bernhard Otto Holtermann emigrated from Hamburg to Australia in 1858 as a destitute young man, where, in 1872, he unearthed the largest lump of gold in the world. Holtermann shared his newfound wealth with his adopted home. As he traveled through the settlements, he had the poverty-stricken life ...

Photographs of early settlement, suppression of the Aborigines, convict times, gold rushes, exploration, growth of transport and farming, towns and cities, bosses and unions, war and politics.

This book traces the discovery and charting of the Australian continent, the founding of the first white settlements and the gradual transformation into modern capital cities

Australia. Big. Beautiful. Diverse. From the First People to washing lines and crocodiles, football and sunshine, koalas and akubras, skyscrapers and beaches that squeak, this 96-page picture book is a glorious tribute to this wide brown land and its rich and varied multicultural communities. Vib...

This title for children delves into a small slice of big, beautiful, and diverse Australia. From the first people to populate it to some great Aussie icons, and the unique animals, the landscape, our passion for sport, the akubras, beaches, and much more. This title captures it all and provides a...

William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led a Victorian government expedition from 1856 to 1857. This is his first publication of his 19th century illustrated work of Aboriginal life.

From parched deserts to lush rainforests, discover the many mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and insects that live around Australia. Search for the animals hidden in each habitat scene. Find out about the fish that walks; the sixth sense of the platypus; the deadly venom of the desert death adder;...

Australia's avifauna is large, diverse and spectacular, reflecting the continent's impressive range of habitats and evolutionary history. With specially commissioned paintings of over 900 species, "The Australian Bird Guide" is the most comprehensive field guide to Australian birds ever seen. Th...

It took millions of years of isolation and a diverse range of habitats for Australian birds to evolve the way they did. The result is many of the world's most striking and beautiful birds, including some that are stranger than fiction. In Australian Birds, acclaimed artist Matt Chun showcases 16 ...

This popular visual pub crawl across outback Australia, first published in 2010, is one of Boiling Billy's bestselling books. Lavishly illustrated with striking and fascinating full-colour photographs, Australian Bush Pubs features an eclectic collection of the historic outback watering holes, in...

Naturalistic styles of planting - wilder and closer to nature - and working in harmony with the environment and the surrounding landscape are recurring themes in the extraordinary gardens featured in Australian Dreamscapes. Photographed by Claire Takacs, and accompanied by texts written by the ga...