Collection: Reference

John Olsen is widely recognised as one of Australia's most significant and accomplished artists. This book places his work in context and investigates the wide array of sources that have inspired him, including Aboriginal, Oriental and European art

This richly illustrated publication represents the author's attempt to locate as many of John Olsen's drawings as possible and Macmillan's determination to reproduce them in a book which will serve as a companion to our previous monographs on the artist's prints and paintings. Olsen is an artist ...

Wolseley continues to explore the natural workings of the planet. Grishin describes how the artist turns the seemingly random confluences of natural things into a process of change and decay within the over-arching endurance of life.

Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage round the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia and Java, bringing back over 1300 species that had n...

Examines the life and work of one of Australia's earliest colonial artists who worked in Australia from 1815 to 1822 and was responsible for the most extravagantly illustrated account of the colony, published in London in 1824-25.