Category Archives: Book

Book launch | Unseen by Penelope Jackson

November 17, 2025Book

Unseen: Art and Crime in Australia Penelope Jackson A riveting look at art thefts, fakes, forgeries, vandalism, ‘disappeared works’ and more The Australian art world is often host to crime, including theft, fraud and forgeries. Unseen offers a unique insight into art crime in Australia from colonisation to today, focusing on those stories that have often escaped mainstream attention. From the many offences committed against William Dobell’s work (including a painting listed on the FBI’s National Stolen Art File since 1949) to the mysterious re-emergence of Rupert Bunny’s Girl in Sunlight twenty-three years after it disappeared, from fraudulently sold Aboriginal art to climate activists […]

Event | Art History and Curatorship Seminar | Friday 10 October

October 6, 2025Book, Events

You are invited to a special Art History and Curatorship Seminar discussion to celebrate the release of two new books, on Friday, 10 October, at 10:00 – 11:00 am AEDT, in person and via Zoom. This seminar will comprise a lively discussion based on the publications: Writing Borderless Histories of Art: Human Exceptionalism and the Climate Crisis, the latest monograph by Claire Farago, and Transcultural Histories of Art and Artisanal Epistemologies: Knowledge to Be Made, a new edited volume from Claire Farago, Susan Lowish and Jens Baumgarten. Speakers: Claire Farago, Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado Boulder. Jens Baumgarten, Professor of Art History at the Federal […]

Books | WAKEFIELD PRESS NEW TITLES

September 22, 2025Book

New Releases November/December 2025 Click to download the Wakefield Press FULL NEW RELEASES FLYER for November/December 2025, or contact us for more information, to request reading copies or events with our authors. WAKEFIELD PRESS NEW TITLES Historical / Literary Fiction Salt Upon the Water by Lyn Dickens ISBN 9781923388208 / October 2025 1836. At the edge of empire, a woman arrives to claim her past. And her future. Clarissa FitzRoy, a spirited woman of mixed heritage, has crossed oceans to confront Colonel William Light, the Surveyor-General of South Australia. Bound by a shared history of dispossession by the British East India Company and haunted […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2025 | ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

July 21, 2025AWAPA, Book, Prizes

AAANZ Art Writing and Publishing Awards (AWAPAs) recognise the best in arts writing and research across Australia and New Zealand. AWAPAs Entry Form ENTRIES for the 2025 AWAPAs are NOW OPEN The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2025 | ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

June 2, 2025AWAPA, Award, Book

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2024 – ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

May 26, 2025AWAPA, Award, Book, Prizes

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2024 – ENTRIES CLOSE 8 AUGUST

May 16, 2025AWAPA, Award, Book, Prizes

Publication | The Ecology of the Performance Art Process

May 16, 2025Book

The Ecology of the Performance Art Process: Fragmentation, Union, Reconfiguration by Angel Viora This book offers a new, dynamic and ecological perspective to analyse the process of performance art, namely, what occurs during the unfolding of a piece, exploring the essence of its happening through the forces at play. The author’s aim is to provide a deeper understanding of performance art, which the existing scholarship acknowledges as an art form that actively engages with the world. Much work has been done on the transformative effects of performance art on the artists and the audiences, and its impact on society over time. […]

Call for publishers, designers and distributors | Object Book Fair

April 28, 2025Book, Events, Publication

Calling all publishers, designers and distributors This is an invitation to join us and promote your publications at an upcoming book fair in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. The Object Book Fair will take place at Objectspace as part of Object Book Space; an events programme celebrating an object of design – the book – through a full-day symposium, book fair and more. Ahead of launching to the public, we warmly invite designers, publishers and distributors to book a table and share your publications during the Object Book Fair, taking place Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 June, 11am – 4pm both days. For more information, and to […]

Publication | Protecting Indigenous Art

September 16, 2024Book

In late September Melbourne University Press will release, Protecting Indigenous Art by Colin Golvan. Colin is a leading Intellectual Property senior barrister. The cases in the book really focus on protecting Indigenous rights and voice, which weaves into many of the wider conversations about giving voice to Indigenous peoples happening in Australia and overseas. Below are further details for you to review. Protecting Indigenous Art is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of art, law and Indigenous rights as it outlines groundbreaking Aboriginal art copyright cases. Golvan, the legal mind behind them, has not only shaped the legal landscape but also championed the rights of Aboriginal artists’ rights within the western legal […]