Collection: Reference

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

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

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...

This book encompasses all those organisms that live in, on and around the ocean. It includes sections on all but the most obscure marine groups, covering invertebrates, plants, fungi, bacteria, fish, reptiles, mammals and birds. It also incorporates information on identification, distribution, st...