Gabrielle White
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Dane Lovett’s flower paintings both embrace and eschew their historical, thematic and allegorical roots. Dark, often monochromatic and subtly tonal in their palette, the scores of works that populate the Melbourne-based artist’s debut book 'Flowers' gestures towards the syntaxes of minimalism and seriality as resolutely as they do the still life. Where earlier works saw the artist construct still life arrangements from indoor plants and pop-cultural ephemera (VHS cassettes, vinyl records, CDs, ageing tech and the like) Lovett’s recent practice has seen him embrace repetition and delicate variation, with an unmistakably reductionist and art historical bent. Here, he recasts French artist Henri Fantin-Latour’s 1864 still life Flowers: Tulips, Camellias, Hyacinths in countless murky, monochromatic iterations – a single vase of flowers becoming a site for sustained painterly exploration, variation and rhythm. Extended series of foxgloves and waterlilies in various unnatural tones follow.As the curator and academic Rosemary Forde writes in her essay for the book, Lovett’s repetitions ‘each seem to emote uniquely’, his dark and muddy images allowing us to project ‘our own familiar scenes, moments, memories, aspirations, sorrows’. 104 pages29 x 22cmSection-sewn perfect bindSoftcoverPerimeter Editions (Naarm).

Archival Print2022Giclee print on Sihl Masterclass cotton (smooth)320 x 360mmEdition of 10To ensure responsible production we print per orderFramed option available - email us for pricing and information

2017Acrylic on canvas20 x 25cmPippa Makgill is a New Zealand-born, Australian-based painter and sculptor. Pippa's work addresses the idea of shifting materiality, and the presence of the 'formless' within space. She often applies the concept of 'fluidity' to her work - capturing gesture within static mediums - and is deeply compelled by edges and how they can pull on the body's sensual gauge of sight, surface and form.

In the early 1980s, art and writing labelled as graffiti transitioned from New York City walls and subway trains onto canvas and into art galleries. Young artists who freely sampled from their urban experiences and their largely black, Latino and immigrant histories infused the downtown art scene with expressionist, pop and graffiti-inspired compositions.Jean-Michel Basquiat was among the best known of these emerging artists. He and his fellow creators - including A-One, Fab Five Freddy, Futura, Keith Haring, Kool Koor, LA2, Lady Pink, Lee Quiñones, Rammellzee and Toxic - became avant-garde leaders infiltrating and reshaping the predominantly white art world. This comprehensive title captures the energy, inventiveness, and resistance unleashed when hip-hop went 'all city'.

Over the past decade, Canadian-born, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga (born 1978) has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures and films that consider marginalized histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwanga's ethereal environments bring attention to the backstories of systems of authority and their embodied effects.Accompanying the exhibition at the New Museum, this catalog provides one of the most complete overviews of Kiwanga's work in sculpture and installation. Inspired by the early 18th-century New York legal codes known as "lantern laws"--ordinances that required all Black, Indigenous or mixed-race individuals over 14 to carry lanterns or lit candles after dark if not accompanied by a white person--her new commission for the New Museum weaves together different layers of opacity and transparency through the use of large-scale curtains and mirrored surfaces, playing with natural light and darkness.

Dimensions vary with every mug. Mugs are stoneware fired, dishwasher (please pack carefully to not place pressure on the handles) and microwave safe.Wendy Ma (Kaomoji Ceramics) is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based Ceramic Artist driven by a desire to stimulate joy and warmth - recognising the impact a carefully placed ceramic piece can have on a home space. Her bright, modern homewares encourage ritualistic use to elevate your mood and routine - transforming ordinary meals or your morning coffee into a relished experience.With a background in design and fashion, Wendy has been practicing in ceramics since 2015. Creating under the moniker 'Kaomoji' the term is borrowed from the Japanese art of using symbols to convey emotion.