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A bracelet made of glossy translucent chain links with a minimal hook clasp.This bracelet is 21.5 cm in length, and is adjustable - simply attach the hook to any link.Mint is a milky and translucent acetate. The bracelet comes with a logo metal tag detail and branded dust bag.

Following on from his epic 2016 book for Perimeter Editions, S-O-M-E-O-N-E, Laith McGregor’s latest publication forges a somewhat unlikely dialogue between the artist’s often divergent processes and aesthetic outcomes. Drawing on two very different but interlinked bodies of work – McGregor’s long-running Island Drawings and more recent Island Collages – the book juxtaposes the Australian artist’s meticulously rendered, monochromatic drawings with his spontaneous, colour-rich and playfully formal collages.Archipelago skirts a line between artist book and monograph, wrangling McGregor’s works in a loose, intuitive fashion, all the while affording them the critical attention they demand. Featuring an incisive text by prominent Brisbane-based curator and writer Hamish Sawyer, the book sees McGregor continue his at once lively, conceptual, idiosyncratic and methodical explorations of a wider premise that broaches travel, diarism, exoticism, representations of the Pacific and expanded notions of the portrait.Like much of McGregor’s work, Archipelago feels measured and precise one moment, easy and breezy the next.72 pages32 x 24 cmSection-sewn hardcoverPerimeter Editions (Naarm).

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.

Set of 2 ceramic whiskey cups. Raw dark stained clay with black glazed interiors. Tim Wilson is an Artist whose practice spans the realms of ceramics, sculpture, installation and painting. Working from Yugambeh Country (Gold Coast), Wilson believes the world we inhabit is considered a compilation of building blocks of assumed values, and that new meaning can only be given to something if it acknowledges that which camebefore.

A rare document of the 1960s Black Arts Movement featuring Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Milford Graves, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor and many more, The Cricket fostered critical and political dialogue for Black musicians and writersEdited by poets and writers Amiri Baraka, A.B. Spellman and Larry Neal between 1968 and 1969, and published by Baraka’s New Jersey–based JIHAD productions around the time of the Newark Riots, this experimental music magazine ran poetry, position papers and gossip alongside concert and record reviews and essays on music and politics. The publication emerged from the heart of a political movement―“a proto-ideology, akin to but younger than the Garveyite movement and the separatism of Elijah Mohammed,” as Spellman writes in the book’s preface―and aimed to reunite advanced art with its community, “to provide Black Music with a powerful historical and critical tool” and to enable avant-garde Black musicians and writers “to finally make a way for themselves.” This publication gathers all issues of the magazine with an introduction by poet and scholar David Grundy.

2022Paper collage - drum scanned and printed on archival Hahnmüle Photo Rag 308GSM, with archival Japanese inks42 x 59.4cmLimited Edition of 5 in each formatFramed options available - email hello@waitingroom.storeMeanjin (Brisbane) based artist Des Skordilis has an innate ability to illustrate their feelings as a form of communication. Radiant compositions with bold primary colours and charming bulbous figures defy the rules of proportion. Working across a diverse range of mediums — from digital illustration to drawing, painting, sculpting and stop-motion animation — Skordilis crafts small and thoughtful worlds of intentional lines, block colour and joyful characters.