Art & Australia

Art & Australia Pty Ltd is an independent Sydney-based publishing house, specialising in quality contemporary art publications. It produces the biannual print magazine ARTAND Australia, the country’s longest-running art journal, in print since 1963, as well as books, catalogues and commissioned Artist Editions.

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’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, working with editors Claire Armstrong, Katrina Schwarz and Michael Fitzgerald, and current Associate Editor, 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-based design firm Fabio Ongarato Design.

Editors

Past

Present

Editorial Advisers

Past

Present

Selected contributors

Selected cover artists

Archive

Past issues of ARTAND Australia are available online in digital format on payment of a subscription.[1]

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; Nell; Vanila Netto and fashion designers Romance Was Born; 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 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 and Oscar Wilde book, The Nightingale and the Rose.

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Subscriptions". Art & Australia. Retrieved 28 January 2015.

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