Collection: Penrith Gallery

This nostalgic tour de force illustrates and celebrates the 60s and 70s heyday of alternative magazine publishing in Europe and America, reproducing images from magazines both seminal and obscure whose influence continues to reverberate.

The Tamworth National Fibre Exhibition depicts the true nature of innovative art based textile. The work of 46 established and emerging artists chosen for this exhibition accurately depict the diverse character of fibre practice today.

This catalogue explores questions of cultural violence and history in the work of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Viewed in the context of a country where future possibilities are shaped by the opposing forces of ruin, and production, patrimony and erasure.

Albert Tucker was a pioneer of expressionist art in Australia. He had no formal training and during the 1930s worked with various groups. Conscripted in 1942, Tucker produced sketches and drawings of patients for the Army Medical Corps.

Australian history is the story of man in oppostition to the landscape. Our explorers were driven-as we all are-by the need to survive, by ambition and vanity, by greed, desire and curiosity. This primal contest charts the human condition.

Jonathon Green provides a fascinating and controversial overview of the cultural and political events of the decade. Comprhensive, detailed, and often hilarious, this will be the definitive account of the sixties in Britain [cover]

This extensively illustrated monograph on the artist Alun Leach-Jones provides a major study of one of Australia's most original and important abstract artists. This book traces the evolution of of his art from his arrival in 1960 to the present day.

Brilliant, brittle, fragile, fluid in form, glass has been a rare commodity and highly prized throughout history. Only within the last hundred years it has been possible to make glass by machine, and it has become a common and inexpensive substance.

'... one of the leading architectural practices in Sydney. It is our estimate that twenty Sydney practices warrant such attention, on account of their major and exemplary works, and because of the ideas and principles held by their members' [cover]

Since his first solo exhibition in 1960, Andrew Sibley's work has had a major impact on art in Australia. An unconventional artist, he draws on the unconscious realm for his images and then locates them in our palpable and clamorous reality.