Item #131266 William Creek & Beyond. Australian Artists explore the Outback. John OLSEN, Ken McGREGOR.
William Creek & Beyond. Australian Artists explore the Outback
William Creek & Beyond. Australian Artists explore the Outback
William Creek & Beyond. Australian Artists explore the Outback
William Creek & Beyond. Australian Artists explore the Outback

William Creek & Beyond. Australian Artists explore the Outback

Sydney, Craftsman House, 2002.

Large quarto, 303 pages with hundreds of colour illustrations (many from photographs by Hari Ho).

Purple cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; faint odour of camphor; a near-fine copy in the matching cloth-covered slipcase with a colour plate mounted on the front panel (the cloth a little marked, the plate slightly scuffed).

Number 87 of 100 copies of the deluxe edition; loosely inserted is an original colour etching numbered to match, captioned ('Billabong') and signed by John Olsen (sheet size 328 × 262 mm). The book contains an account of an artists' camp in Central Australia in 2001, organised by Ken McGregor and documented by photographer Hari Ho. The artists involved were Jason Benjamin, Hazel Dooney, Robert Jacks, David Larwill, Jeff Makin, John Olsen, Rodney Pople, Mark Schaller, Andrew Sibley and Tim Storrier. Profiles of the artists, illustrated with examples of their work, are provided by Ashley Crawford.

Item #131266

Price (AUD): $2,000.00

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