Still Life: Contemporary Australian Painters Publisher / Maverick Minds Indigenous artefacts and designs of

Indigenous artefacts and designs of pure abstraction

and Professor Susan Best discusses the artist’s engagement with shame — and his refusal to accept it — in both personal and public histories

strength and directness

pays homage to other Aboriginal artists as her key influences

techniques

Still Life: Contemporary Australian Painters Publisher / Maverick Minds Indigenous artefacts and designs ofA rich survey of the work of more than forty still life artists, which presents the genre in a uniquely Australian light. Still Life explores the diverse practices of more than forty contemporary Australian artists and documents a repertoire of styles, subjects, visions and philosophies. Alongside flowers and food mainstays of the genre the works within these pages also incorporate objects such as books and beer cans, birds and balloons, adding energy