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PADEY, Sandy

Oct 14, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, History, Painting & Illustration, Photography, The Arts

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The Art Appreciation Formula

 

An Art Guide’s method for analysing and interpreting Western Historical Paintings

Written by an experienced museum guide, this book transforms Western Art Appreciation from a stuffy chore into an exhilarating, personal experience.

By prioritising insight over exhaustive facts, it provides a practical toolkit to analyse and interpret paintings confidently. Rejecting neutral documentation, the author encourages readers to defy popular opinion and develop unique, personal tastes. It ensures your next museum visit is deeply empowering and fulfilling.

Understand and interpret paintings:

  • Features 100+ high-quality images
  • Historical and religious context
  • Painting characteristics
  • Side-by-side comparisons of similar paintings
  • How to identify painting genres and famous artists
  • How to analyse and interpret paintings in 26 steps

What you will find in this book:

The book is organised into two main parts. The first one explains the various art genres, and the second teaches you to analyse and interpret paintings. Part 1 of the book covers the Western Art Timeline from 850 BCE through to 1885 CE. This involves understanding the various art genres and periods from the Greek Empire through to Impressionism in the 1800s. This includes the historical and political context of the different genres, which influenced their uniquely different styles. It gives you the skills to identify a painting’s genre and the signature styles of the most famous artists. Part 2 of the book features the Art Appreciation Toolkit, modelled on the author’s art tours, and teaches you to analyse and interpret paintings through two perspectives: Visual analysis and Understanding & Interpretation.

What’s different about this book:

It is not a neutral book that passively documents art. The content included and opinions expressed, including the paintings and artists featured, and indeed the relative volume of content of different topics, are based on the author’s own perception and preferences of which art he finds exceptional, sometimes against popular opinion. The reader is encouraged not to necessarily agree with these choices, but to use this “I’ll decide what’s amazing” approach to appreciate art in their own, deeply personal way (and not follow the herd).

CANNIZZO, Phillip

Sep 28, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Photography, The Arts, Writing

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From Sicily to Caulfield

 

This book tells the story of how seven life-size bronze figures came to live in the most popular park in the Melbourne suburb of Caulfield. As nothing substantial has so far been written about the installation, the many locals who enjoy the park have no idea about the origin of these bronze figures. Nor has the art world taken note of this major public sculpture.

To this day there is not a foundry in Australia capable of casting a life-size bronze figure in a single molten bronze pour. But a determined sculptor had the half-mad idea of building his own infrastructure, capable of handling moulds weighing up to 3 tons, to create these figures. The book is also a memoir of the ten-year-old boy who migrated from Sicily to Melbourne.

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About the Author

 

PHILLIP CANNIZZO WAS BORN in April 1945 in the Medieval town of Licodia Eubea in Sicily, where he first experienced the wonder of sculpture. He migrated to Australia in 1956, and soon took on various jobs, including wedding photography, factory work, and bookkeeping. He attended University Secondary College night school and was awarded a studentship to become a secondary art teacher, and a subsequent scholarship for further study at RMIT.

His graduate exhibition earned high praise from Leonard French and Clifford Last, which led to his first one-man show in 1971 at the prestigious Rudy Komon Gallery in Sydney. He completed
postgraduate studies in sculpture at RMIT in 1973. While teaching full-time at different high schools in Victoria, he worked on the Caulfield Park commission and exhibited at the Australian Galleries in Melbourne in 1974 and 1981. His work is represented in private and public collections.

He joined with other notable artists in contributing a chapter to
the anthology, 52 Views of Rudy Komon, 1999. ed., Robert Raymond.
Beagle press: Sydney pp 61-64.

MILLS, David

Mar 26, 2026 | *, *listed, Autobiography, Biography, South Australia, The Arts

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The Coconut Kid

A memoir of a stolen child

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In his book Coconut Kid David Mills tells some of his stories. David was born in 1941 in Cranbrook, WA. At the age of four months he was taken from his family and spent the next 8 years at Parkerville Children’s Home not even aware that he had older siblings.

He started his schooling there but at the age of 8 was returned to his family where his education continued.

He began his working life at the tender age of 13 and worked, mostly as a shearer, in a number of areas of Australia. David’s stories are informative, funny and gut wrenching.

Especially as he tells of his wife’s illness and last days. He is frank about his life and its bad patches. However, you can’t but admire the man he has become, despite all he has experienced.

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About the Author

 

David was taken from his family at 4 months old in 1941 when it was Government policy to put light-skinned part-Aboriginal children in institutions.

He wasn’t reunited with his mother till he was 8. He struggled with schooling at Cranbrook in southern Western Australia and started his first job at age 14.

David found his calling when he started shearing but his greatest gift is as a storyteller. With humour and remarkable honesty, David tells the stories of his life including the battle for his wife to take advantage of Australia’s first Voluntary Assisted Dying laws in Darwin in the 1990s.

IVORY, Catherine Isabella

Mar 2, 2026 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Performing Arts, Play / Script, The Arts

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Barcelona

 

Barcelona is a story of two partners, four friends, that travels through poignant moments based around a comma of memories both fond and harrowing. Intertwining a broken timeline of their past, leading to the reasoning behind Viaan’s tethered and unhinged relationship with her abusive partner Cole, and Byron and Jane’s passionately honest and intimate connection.

Each character reveals history, perceptions, and restraints placed on themselves and those around them that simultaneously effect and destroy how they live and love each other, rupturing each individual’s relentless desire for freedom.

McFARLANE, Paul

Nov 24, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Animals \ Pets Non-fiction, Australian, Biological & Behavioural, Children's Books, Earth \ Nature, Photography

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Koala Kindness

 

An Engaging True Koala Adventure Embracing Hope, Trust and Kindness

Join Dharug the young koala on an endearing true adventure. During a drought, Dharug is forced to leave the safety of home to find water. Tired and thirsty, Dharug stumbles upon a garden and receives help from an unexpected place. Danger, kindness and playful fun are seamlessly captured by camera and story.

Koala Kindness is a unique, engaging and educational read for all ages. To learn more about the author, check out his work and purchase his unique photographs, visit: koalamanphotography.com.au

We acknowledge the land we live and meet on is the traditional land of the Kaurna people. We respect their spiritual relationship with this land. We also acknowledge the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the Kaurna land.

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About the Author

 

As a marketing and communications executive, Paul has worked around the printing and publishing industries all throughout his career. Now retired, Paul enjoys his days with his wife Susie, spending time with their three children and five grandchildren.

An award-winning photographer and gardener, Paul enjoys sharing his passion for life and nature through the images he captures and the stories he tells.

Fortunately, it was through his love of gardening that he encountered a koala in need and was able to capture for posterity Dharug’s unique story.

Please note the authors photos can be purchased online by visiting koalamanphotography.com.au/

DALY, C.C

Oct 21, 2025 | *, *Featured books, *listed, Australian, Painting & Illustration, Photography, Poetry, The Arts

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Froth & Bubble

 

Poetry and Artwork

From 1975, as a 10-year-old, C.C. Daly has written and drawn… Froth and Bubbles is a collection of what has survived up until 2007 and beyond.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.
— Adam Lindsay Gordon

About the Author

 

A Mum and Nanna.

Person of a thousand careers (if you’re NOT happy somewhere, move on!)

One career, being a last Tram Conductor in Melbourne.

Renovator, Crafter, Furniture Upcycler, Artist…

Definitely, experienced the ‘Froth & Bubble’ of Life.