Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved Publisher / Institute of Modern Art Shirley Macnamara is a mid-career

Shirley Macnamara is a mid-career Indigenous artist whose sculptures made from spinifex grass are an expression of the western Queensland country where she lives and works

there are winners and losers

This book is about disruption

from simple tasks like drawing shapes and lines to more considered tutorials such as calligraphy writing and shading

A rich reference section concludes the book

Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved Publisher / Institute of Modern Art Shirley Macnamara is a mid-careerPatricia Piccinini, one of Australias most celebrated artists ever since her 'Young Family' exhibition caused a sensation at the 1993 Venice Biennale. Piccinini creates an imaginative world peopled with families of charming and slightly unsettling beings. There are mutants who are half human and half beast, baby trucks and humanized scooters, sentient lumps of flesh and delicious bits of car. This book reproduces and discusses all Piccininis major