Lloyd Rees: Early Brisbane Drawings

Michael Hawker
92 pages paperback illustrated

Brisbane-born painter and draftsman Lloyd Rees (1895–1988) is one of Australia’s most recognised and awarded landscape artists. He deftly captures the effects of light and form in his works, for which he twice received the prestigious Wynne Prize. Lloyd Rees: Early Brisbane Drawings documents a number of significant early drawings he made in Brisbane in the first decades of the twentieth century. These are selected from works generously gifted by Alan and Jan Rees (the artist’s son and daughter-in-law), honouring the important connection that Lloyd Rees had with Queensland, especially in his early development as a draftsman and artist, with an A5 sketchbook format publication with more than 70 plate pages.

Lloyd Rees: Early Brisbane Drawings has been published on the occasion of ‘Lloyd Rees: Life and Light’, an exhibition held in the Xstrata Coal Queensland Artists’ Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery, 12 March – 13 June 2011.


Orders will be posted early March 2011.

RRP: $24.95

Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox

Angela Goddard, Juliet Peers, Catherine Nunn,
Georgina Downey, Karen Quinlan and Andrew Yip
160 pages paperback colour illustrations

Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox were married for only ten years, from 1905 to 1915, but in that happy decade they established a legacy of artistic creativity and comradeship that has rarely been matched. This richly illustrated catalogue for the exhibition ‘Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox’ focuses on what each brought to their shared life in the studio and the cosmopolitan dialogues that took place within it. The publication is the first to focus in-depth on the relationship between Carrick and Fox, and features scholarly essays by Juliet Peers, Catherine Nunn, Georgina Downey, Karen Quinlan and Andrew Yip, and features works from public and private collections from across Australia.

The exhibition ‘Art, Love and Life: Ethel Carrick and E Phillips Fox’ will be at the Queensland Art Gallery, 16 April – 7 August 2011.

Orders will be posted early April 2011.

RRP: $45.00

Artlines: The 21st Century issue

Issue 4–2010 (December)
48 pages paperback colour illustrations

The December 2010 edition of Artlines explores ‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade’, the Gallery’s exhibition of international contemporary art, with feature articles on ‘21st Century’ artists by Tate Modern’s Jessica Morgan (on Carsten Höller); curator Jimena Blãzquez Abascal (on Pascale Marthine Tayou); and New York-based arts commentator Alan Lockwood (on Céleste Boursier-Mougenot).

Angela Goddard explores some of the works in Figure, Form and Allegory: Sculpture from the Collection; Tim Walsh looks at representations of the 21st century in science fiction cinema; and David Burnett focuses on cultural and economic exchanges between Europe and Asia in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Artlines is in conversation with Tim Fairfax, AM — businessman, philanthropist and President of the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation — whose generosity has secured many important works for the Gallery’s Collection.

Five ‘21st Century’ acquisitions are also featured in this edition, as well as our regular mix of book, exhibition and screen reviews.

Artlines is published four times a year (March, June, September and December).

21st Century: Art in the First Decade
21st Century Art For Kids

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‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade’ is an ambitious and groundbreaking exhibition occupying the entire Gallery of Modern Art, with a focus on works created between 2000 and 2010. It showcases more than 200 works and features over 140 artists and artist collaborative groups – senior, mid-career and emerging – from more than 40 countries. The accompanying exhibition publication is a 296-page, full-colour, stand-alone volume on art and art practices in the 21st century, and features essays by leading Australian and international thinkers in the field, including Claire Bishop, TJ Demos, Kobena Mercer, Manuel J Borja-Villel, Ian McLean and Kathryn Weir.

Coinciding with the ‘21st Century: Art in the First Decade’ exhibition, the Children’s Art Centre launches an exciting publication for children. 21st Century Art for Kids is a richly illustrated publication profiling art works, childhood images and stories by more than 15 contemporary artists from around the world whose works are held in the Queensland Art Gallery Collection.

Floating Life: Contemporary Aboriginal Fibre Art

Contributing authors include Diane Moon, Diana Wood Conroy, Anna Haebich, John Kean, Julie Ewington, Bruce McLean, Lynne Seear
160 pages softcover colour illustrations

Back by popular demand, Floating Life: Contemporary Aboriginal Fibre Art highlights the continuing importance of fibre within Aboriginal culture and the extraordinary inventiveness of the artists exploring the medium. Works range from classic interpretations of woven forms inspired by ancient stories, to feathered pieces that continue traditions of making practical and decorative fibre objects for personal and ritual use. Contemporary reinventions of iconic fibre forms; woven objects, both practical and decorative; paintings illustrating weaving stitches and objects; and ceremonial objects, including banumbirr (morning star) poles and balmarra (dance frames), all feature in this exhibition catalogue. Floating Life includes works by artists Lena Yarinkura, Judy Baypungala, Lola Greeno, Yvonne Koolmatrie, Shirley MacNamara, Fiona Foley and Lorraine Connelly-Northey, among others.

RRP: $39.95

BYO Coffee Cup – 12 Ounce

Made from silicone, these flexible coffee cups will revolutionise your mornings. Soft yet firm, they can withstand 200°C heat, keeping your coffee hot but your hand cool. Perfect to carry in your bag, they are lightweight and durable. Use them again and again, and you won't be contributing to the mountains of disposable coffee cups found in landfill, making your morning coffee guilt-free.

Measures 13 x 9cm

BYO Coffee Cup – 8 Ounce

If you like your coffee on the smaller side, perhaps the 8 Ounce BYO Coffee Cup is for you. With all the great features of the larger size, but in a more compact format, it's great to carry when you’re on the go.

Measures 10.5 x 9cm

Guggenheim Museum Model

Following on from the success of the ‘Queenslander’ model, the Little Building Co has produced a model kit of one of the world’s most recognisable buildings – the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Originally designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, its spiraling organic forms tested the capabilities of building technology at the time. Build your own Guggenheim Museum in miniature to truly appreciate this wonder of modern architecture.

Model Scale 1:500 – approx. 150 x 110 x 85mm

Freehand: Recent Australian Drawing

88 pages paperback colour illustrations

This publication accompanies the exhibition on the art of drawing at the Heide Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition consists of works by more than 25 contemporary Australian artists, including Eugene Carchesio, Del Kathryn Barton and Robert MacPherson. Many artists use drawing as a fundamental process that enables uncluttered freedom of expression, and direct, honest approaches to the subject. This book includes beautiful images by each artist as well as informative biographies.

RRP: $35.00

Look: Contemporary Australian Photography Since 1980

399 pages hardcover colour illustrations

Since 1980, photography has become an important art form in its own right. This exciting period in the medium’s history is captured in Look, an intensely visual publication including over 400 photographs arranged by theme: environment, life, identity, space and experiment. Each theme is accompanied by a brief introduction, and each photograph includes an extended caption. Many contributing photographers appear across the themes, providing an excellent example of the artists exploring ideas in different ways.

RRP: $130.00