Art & Australia Pty Ltd is a biannual digital magazine, the country's longest-running art journal, since 1963. Art & Australia (now Art + Australia) relaunched a new digital publishing platform in August 2022.

History

In May 2013, ''ARTAND Australia'' celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. First published by Sam Ure Smith in May 1963, it followed Sam's father

Sydney Ure Smith Sydney George Ure Smith OBE (9 January 188711 October 1949) was an Australian arts publisher, artist and promoter who "did more than any other Australian to publicize Australian art at home and overseas". Unlike most of his contemporaries, he ...

’s publication " Art in Australia", which was in print 1916–42. From 1963 to 1983, Mervyn Horton was the magazine's founding editor. He was followed by Elwyn Lynn, Jennifer Phipps and Leon Paroissien, Dinah Dysart, Hannah Fink and Laura Murray Cree. In 2003, Eleonora Triguboff became Editor/Publisher of ''ARTAND Australia'', former editors include Laura Murray-Cree, Claire Armstrong, Katrina Schwarz, Michael Fitzgerald and Genevieve O'Callaghan. The magazine has also involved many distinguished editorial advisers. Since 2004, winners of the ''ARTAND Australia'' / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award – awarded to Australian and New Zealand emerging artists – have appeared on the magazine's back cover. Since 2008, the magazine has partnered to host the Gertrude Contemporary and ''ARTAND Australia'' Emerging Writers Program. ''ARTAND Australia'' also regularly collaborates with artists and designers to produce Artist Editions and Artist Projects. In August 2013, the print magazine celebrated fifty years and its 200th issue. The 201st issue – volume 51, number 1 in August 2013 – featured a redesign by

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

-based design firm Fabio Ongarato Design. ''Art & Australia'' continues to evolve in the exciting though turbulent world of converging media and art. In 2014 ''Art & Australia'' launched a new website as a platform to share their archive of over fifty years and daily news. At this time they decided to migrate to a fully online presence and increase their focus on art book publication with Dott Publishing, an imprint of ''Art & Australia''. In 2015, Eleonora Triguboff donated ''Art & Australia'' to the

Victorian College of Arts The Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) is the arts school at the University of Melbourne in Australia. It is part of the university's Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. It is located near the Melbourne city centre on the Southbank campus of the ...

. Triguboff's ARTAND Foundation retained Dott Publishing. From 2015 Art & Australia has been published as Art + Australia. In the period between 2015-2021 Art + Australia published a biannual, thematic issues that charted the geopolitical conditions of contemporary artistic practice. Alongside the magazine Art + Australia ran an online platform of art criticism and commentary, alongside a book imprint. In 2022 Art + Australia shifted to a digital publishing model with biannual publication of the latest discussions, criticism and reflections on contemporary artistic practice from Australia and abroad. This is supplemented by a book imprint and a range of other publishing activities.

Editors

Past

* Mervyn Horton * Elwyn Lynn * Jennifer Phipps and Leon Paroissien * Dinah Dysart * Hannah Fink * Laura Murray Cree * Claire Armstrong * Eleonora Triguboff * Katrina Schwarz * Michael Fitzgerald

Present

Editor-in-chief , Su Baker Editor , Jeremy Eaton

Editorial Advisers

Past

* Yuji Abe * Jenny Åland * Claire Armstrong * Leigh Astbury *

Paul Beadle Paul John Beadle (25 November 1917 – 28 December 1992) was a New Zealand sculptor and medallist. Early life and training Born in Hungerford, Berkshire, England in 1917, Beadle studied cabinetmaking and building construction at Cambridge Art Sc ...

* Pamela Bell * Kym Bonython * John Brack *

Janine Burke Janine Burke is an Australian author, art historian, biographer, photographer and novelist. She also curates exhibitions of historical and contemporary art. She is Honorary Senior Fellow, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. ...

* Rex Butler * Melvin N. Day * Geoffrey Dutton * Dinah Dysart * Juliana Engberg * Tom Gibbons *

James Gleeson James Timothy Gleeson (21 November 1915 – 20 October 2008) was an Australian artist. He served on the board of the National Gallery of Australia. Early life Gleeson was born in the Sydney district of Hornsby in 1915 and attended East Sydn ...

* Ted Gott * Guy Grey-Smith *

Sasha Grishin Alexander "Sasha" Dmitrievich Grishin is an Australian art historian, art critic and curator based in Victoria and Canberra. He is known as an art critic, and for establishing the academic discipline of art history at the Australian National Uni ...

* Robert Haines * Deborah Hart * Leonard Hessing *

Ursula Hoff Ursula Hoff (26 December 1909 in London, UK – 10 January 2005 in Melbourne) was an Australian scholar and prolific author on art. She enjoyed a long career at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, where she was deputy director from 196 ...

* Richard Hook * Jeanette Hoorn * John Hoy * Jennifer Isaacs *

Hamish Keith Hamish Henry Cordy Keith (born 15 August 1936) is a New Zealand writer, art curator, arts consultant and social commentator. Introduction Keith has been writing about and working with the arts in New Zealand for almost half a century. He has ...

Franz Kempf Franz Moishe Kempf (20 June 1926 – 8 February 2020) was an Australian artist who worked in Australia and Europe. He was a lecturer in printmaking at the University of Adelaide. Early life and education Kempf was born in Melbourne on 20 June ...

* Brian Ladd * Suzanne Lord * Ross Luck * Jeffrey Makin * Fred Martin * Louise Martin-Chew * Ronald Millen * Djon Mundine * K. Okamoto * John Olsen * Leon Parossien * Stephen Rainbird * Eric Rowlinson * Andrew Sayers * Brian Seidel * Michael Shannon * Rose Skinner * Trevor Smith * Ted Snell * Henry A. Stroud * Graeme Sturgeon * Daniel Thomas * Laurie Thomas * Wallace Thornton * Peter Timms * Angus Trumble * Kurt von Meier * Nick Waterlow * Chisaburoh F. Yamada

Present

* Thomas Berghuis * Tony Bond * Gregory Burke * Rex Butler * Joanna Capon * Max Delany * John Denton *

Natalie King Natalie King (born 1966) is an Australian curator and writer working in Melbourne, Australia. She specializes in Australian and international programs for contemporary art and visual culture. This includes exhibitions, publications, workshops, ...

* Paula Latos-Valier * Victoria Lynn * Mitchell Oakley Smith * Fabio Ongarato *

Justin Paton Justin Paton (born 1972) is a New Zealand writer, art critic and curator, currently based in Sydney, Australia. His book ''How to Look at a Painting'' (2005) was adapted into a 12-episode television series by TVNZ in 2011. Education Paton stu ...

* Kate Rhodes * Liane Rossler * Gene Sherman * Russell Storer * Sarah Tutton * Anna Waldmann

Selected contributors

* John Armstrong *

Murray Bail Murray Bail (born 22 September 1941) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. In 1980 he shared the Age Book of the Year award for his novel ''Homesickness.'' He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most ...

* Tim Bonyhady * Lily Brett *

Brian Castro Brian Albert Castro (born 16 January 1950) is an Australian novelist and essayist. Biography Castro was born in Hong Kong and has lived in Australia since 1961. He was Chair of Creative Writing (2008-2019) at the University of Adelaide and Di ...

Nick Cave Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Ca ...

* Robyn Davidson *

Luke Davies Luke Davies (born 1962) is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays. His best known works are '' Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction'' (which was adapted for the screen in 2006) and the screenplay for the film '' Lion'', which e ...

Rosemary Dobson Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, AO (18 June 192027 June 2012) was an Australian poet, who was also an illustrator, editor and anthologist.Anderson (1996) She published fourteen volumes of poetry, was published in almost every annual volume of ''Au ...

Richard Flanagan Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer, who has also worked as a film director and screenwriter. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel '' The Narrow Road to the Deep North''. Flanagan was described by the ''Washing ...

Sia Figiel Sia Figiel (born 1967 Apia, Samoa) is an American contemporary Samoan novelist, poet, and painter. Early life Sia Figiel grew up amidst traditional Samoan singing and poetry, which heavily influenced her writing. Figiel's greatest influence a ...

Gwen Harwood Gwen Harwood (née Gwendoline Nessie Foster, 8 June 19205 December 1995) was an Australian poet and librettist. Harwood is regarded as one of Australia's finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and 13 librettos. She won nu ...

* Robert Hughes *

Siri Hustvedt Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include ''The Blindfold'' (1992), ''The Ench ...

Ivor Indyk Ivor Indyk (born 1949) is an Australian literary academic, editor and publisher. He is a professor at the University of Western Sydney, and the founding editor and publisher of award-winning literary imprint Giramondo Publishing and ''HEAT'' mag ...

* Linda Jaivin *

Nicholas Jose Nicholas Jose (born 9 November 1952) is an Australian novelist. Biography Born Robert Nicholas Jose in London, England, to Australian parents, Nicholas Jose grew up mostly in Adelaide, South Australia. He was educated at the Australian National ...

* Evelyn Juers * Alex Miller *

Drusilla Modjeska Drusilla Modjeska (born 1946) is a contemporary Australian writer and editor. Life Modjeska was born in London and was raised in Hampshire. She spent several years in Papua New Guinea (where she was briefly a student at the University of Pa ...

* Louis Nowra *

Mandy Sayer Mandy Sayer (born 1963) is an Australian novelist and narrative non-fiction writer. She was born in 1963 in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville, New South Wales, Marrickville, the third of three children. She began writing poetry and stories at th ...

Barry Schwabsky Barry Schwabsky (b. Paterson, New Jersey, in 1957) is an American art critic, art historian and poet. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Pratt Institute, New York University, Yale University, and Goldsmiths College, among others. Art cr ...

Thomas Shapcott Thomas William Shapcott (born 21 March 1935) is an Australian poet, novelist, playwright, editor, librettist, short story writer and teacher. Biography Thomas William Shapcott was born in Ipswich, Queensland, and attended the Ipswich Grammar ...

* Sebastian Smee * Alexis Wright

Selected cover artists

Ian Fairweather Ian Fairweather (29 September 189120 May 1974) was a Scottish painter resident in Australia for much of his life. He combined western and Asian influences in his work. Life Ian Fairweather was born in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland in ...

* Margaret Preston *

Sidney Nolan Sir Sidney Robert Nolan (22 April 191728 November 1992) was one of Australia's leading artists of the 20th century. Working in a wide variety of mediums, his oeuvre is among the most diverse and prolific in all of modern art. He is best known ...

Colin McCahon Colin John McCahon (; 1August 191927May 1987) was a prominent New Zealand artist whose work over 45 years consisted of various styles, including landscape, figuration, abstraction, and the overlay of painted text. Along with Toss Woollaston and ...

* Sydney Ball * Stanislaus Rapotec *

Tony Tuckson John Anthony Tuckson (18 January 1921 at Port Said, Egypt – 24 November 1973 at Wahroonga, Australia), was an Abstract Expressionist artist, an art gallery director and previously a war-time Spitfire pilot. He died of cancer. Education Th ...

Robert Rooney Robert Rooney (1937–2017) was an artist and art critic from Melbourne, Australia, and a leading figure in Australian Conceptual art. Biography Born in Melbourne on 24 September 1937, Rooney lived in Northcote until December 1939 when he mov ...

Russell Drysdale Sir George Russell Drysdale (7 February 1912 – 29 June 1981), also known as Tass Drysdale, was an Australian artist. He won the prestigious Wynne Prize for ''Sofala'' in 1947, and represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1954. He was i ...

* Declan Apuatimi * Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri *

Nora Heysen Nora Heysen (11 January 1911 – 30 December 2003) was an Australian artist, the first woman to win the prestigious Archibald Prize in 1938 for portraiture and the first Australian woman appointed as an official war artist. Early years Heyse ...

* Jenny Watson *

Wendy Sharpe Wendy Sharpe (born 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian artist who lives and works in Sydney and Paris. She is the only child of British parents and has a Russian Jewish heritage. Her father is the writer and historian Alan Sharpe. She counts ...

Rosalie Gascoigne Rosalie Norah King Gascoigne (née Walker; 25 January 191725 October 1999) was a New Zealand-born Australian sculptor and assemblage artist. She showed at the Venice Biennale in 1982, becoming the first female artist to represent Australia there ...

* Emily Kame Kngwarreye * Fiona Hall * Bill Henson *

Martin Sharp Martin Ritchie Sharp (21 January 1942 – 1 December 2013) was an Australian artist, cartoonist, songwriter and film-maker. Career Sharp was born in Bellevue Hill, New South Wales in 1942, and educated at Cranbrook private school, where one ...

Chicks on Speed Chicks on Speed is a feminist music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, after members Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Though Chicks on Speed reached cult status th ...

Projects

''ARTAND Australia'' actively engages with artmaking through Artist Editions, Artist Projects, Cover Commissions and Education Collaborations. The magazine has work with artists

Louise Weaver Louise Weaver (born 1966) is a contemporary Australian artist working in an array of media including sculptural installations, paintings, drawings, printmaking, collage, textiles, movement and sound. She is best known for her installation and sc ...

; Nell; Vanila Netto and fashion designers

Romance Was Born Romance Was Born is an Australian fashion house, founded by Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales in 2005. Producing haute couture and women's ready-to-wear garments and accessories, the brand produces designs that "freely toy with the relationship betw ...

; Locust Jones; Patrick Pound; and Juan Davila. Other projects have involved working with organisations such as the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation and The Red Room Company.

ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award

Established in 2004, the ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award supports artists in the first five years of practice with a critical text and the illustration of their artwork on the magazine's back cover and gatefold. The ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award is administered by the

National Association for the Visual Arts The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is the national peak body for the visual arts, craft and design in Australia. It advocates for the sector as well as undertaking research and policy development and providing direct services to i ...

and supported by Credit Suisse Private Banking.

Gertrude Contemporary and ARTAND Australia Emerging Writers Program

The Gertrude Contemporary and ARTAND Australia Emerging Writers Program is a selective mentorship program that developed from a 2005 Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, initiative. It pairs four emerging writers with leading arts specialists each year, offering participants the opportunity to develop their writing practice, publish their works and gain further insight into the field of contemporary art writing, featuring their work in the pages of ''ARTAND Australia'' and through Gertrude Contemporary's Studio 12 exhibition program.

Books

Art & Australia Pty Ltd is the publishing house that prints ''ARTAND Australia'', with Dott Publishing the arm that produces contemporary art books and artist collaborative books. These include ''Current: Contemporary Art from Australia and New Zealand'' (2008) and the 2012

Del Kathryn Barton Del Kathryn Barton (born 11 December 1972) is an Australian artist who began drawing at a young age, and studied at UNSW Art & Design (formerly the College of Fine Arts) at the University of New South Wales. She soon became known for her psyche ...

and

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

book, ''The Nightingale and the Rose''
New titles include
"Chinese Zodiac" (2014) that presents a dynamic new series of artworks created by twelve of Australia's leading contemporary artists, with an introduction by Benjamin Law and "Tony Albert" (2015) the first comprehensive survey of the multidisciplinary oeuvre of the artist. Dott Publishing has recently released a collaboration with Hong Kong born Melbourne based artist

Kate Beynon Kate Beynon (born 9 September 1970, in Hong Kong) is an Australian contemporary artist based in Melbourne. She was the 2016 winner of the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize for the painting, ''Graveyard scene/the beauty and sadness of bones.'' Her ...

, the title "An-Li: A Chinese Ghost Tale" (2015) marks the second iteration of the Dott Tales series, following on from The Nightingale and the Rose. Art + Australia has published and co-published eight books since 2015.

Notes and references

External links

http://www.artandaustralia.com
Official website * https://web.archive.org/web/20150519151849/https://instagram.com/artandaustralia Instagram * https://www.visualarts.net.au/grants/art-and-australia-award * http://www.gertrude.org.au/programs/emerging-writers/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Art and Australia Pty. Ltd. 1963 establishments in Australia Biannual magazines published in Australia Arts magazines published in Australia Magazines established in 1963 Magazines published in Sydney

History

Editors

Past

Present

Editorial Advisers

Past

Present

Selected contributors

Selected cover artists

Archive

Projects

ARTAND Australia / Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award

Gertrude Contemporary and ARTAND Australia Emerging Writers Program

Books

Notes and references

External links