A major, fully illustrated publication featuring more than 50 essays on the work of contemporary Australian artists has been produced in conjunction with 'Contemporary Australia: Optimism'. The publication includes engaging essays by authors John Birmingham and Melissa Lucashenko, filmmaker Elissa Down and Queensland Art Gallery staff. It is available in hard and soft cover from the Gallery Store and online at www.australianartbooksonline.com.au

The legendary Italian eyewear company Persol invited 17 young artists to make works that lay bare the creative process. Art in Process charts the projects' development through interviews, photographs and art by Harriet Russell, Anne Hardy, Mustafa Hulusi, Wilfrid Almendra, Guillaume Leblon and Amanda Ross-Ho, among others.

" ... begins with a close study of Redfern before expanding into international examples to provide a detailed exploration of how the phenomenon of gentrification is altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world." -- Back cover.

High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrators playfully set out across the Tasman, literally on a high wire. Macleods striking drawings explore notions of home, and depict homeward thoughts and dreams. High Wire also enters a metaphysical place where art is made, a place where any ambitious art-making enterprise requires its participants to hold their nerve and not look down. Its a beautifully considered small book which richly rewards the reader and stretches the notion of what the book can do.

Featuring over 240 colour plates, this volume canvasses an extraordinary diverse range of Aboriginal art. The 27 essays by leading authorities and 13 interviews with key artists are accompanied by an extensive chronology.