Redback Books

Free ACGA 98-99 Gallery Guide. Introduction by Leon Paroissien.  Provides a Gallery Index and Artist  Exhibited  Index. Guide to most of the best known private art galleries in Australia.  About 50 Galleries are documented.  Each Gallery has an Image, a brief description of the gallery policy, artists and location details.  An invaluable guide for tourists.  $5.00 postage and packaging (within Australia).
Ilan Pasin, This is our Way, Torres Strait Art.A retrospective of Torres Strait art with a bias to the contemporary.  Published by the Cairns Regional Gallery. Plenty of images with outstanding contemporary pieces by artists such as Rosie Barkus, James Eseli and Edrick Tabuai.  This book with Lindsay Wilson's Kerkar Lu  are the only available reliable references on Torres Strait Art.  $50 plus 10% GST plus postage and packaging. 
  Hermannsburg Potters -  Aranda Artists of Central Australia by Jennifer Isaacs. At Hermannsburg, Aranda Potters have established a modern, vibrant and highly original form of ceramic art that strongly reflects the distinctive visual culture of the region. 

A beautiful, hardcover edition illustrated with 132 colour plates of ceramics, murals, sculptures and landscapes, as well as rare historic photographs of almost a century  of life and art at Hermannsburg. 31cm x 28cm. $88.00 including GST plus postage and packaging. 

Jirrbal - Rainforest Dreamtime Stories by Maisie Barlow and Illustrated by Michael Anning.

This delightful childrens book is full of stories which are witty and wise moral fables from the tablelands of Northern Queensland. They are traditional , as told to generations of young people for thousands of years,and as told to the author herself, when she was a child of the rainforest. The animla characters have been brought to life in beathtaking simplicity, full of lively personality and charm by Michael Anning.
$24.90 (inc GST) plus postage and handling

Gelam Nguzu Kazi - Dugong my Son from Mua Island, Torres Straight.
Features the first exhibition of limited edition linocuts by the artists of the Mualgua Minaral Artist Collective from Mua Island in the Torres Straight. The exhibition is touring Australia and Internationally until 2004.
$12.50 (inc GST) plus postage and handling
Gatherings - Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islanders Art from Qld.
A book showcasing the rich, diverse and inspirational art of Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people. 
$30.00 (inc GST) plus Postage and handling