Publications

Landscape and Memory emerges from Michelle Hiscock's significant project to breathe new life into traditional approaches to landscape painting. The sepia wash drawings featured in the book, reminiscent of the 17th-century landscape masters she admires, were created over the last two decades and include landscapes made in France on the WW2 battlefields of the Western Front, and her habitual sketching grounds in Tasmania and the Sydney region.

Landscape and Memory also includes an introductory essay explaining the rationale behind the technical and aesthetic evolution of the artist's approach to landscape drawing and a comprehensive summary of her exhibition history to date.

This exhibition catalogue celebrates forty years of the William Fletcher Foundation, established in memory of the artist William Fletcher who died prematurely in 1983. Founded through the generosity of the late Trevor Andersen, the Foundation has supported generations of young Australian artists working in traditional media of drawing, painting, and printmaking.

The catalogue features recipients of the Foundation's awards in recent years, including Rome scholars, Bundanon residency recipients, and development grant winners. The Foundation's biennial Rome Residency, established in collaboration with the British School at Rome, allows artists to spend three months studying the great art of antiquity and the early modern period. The annual Bundanon residency provides three weeks of studio time at Arthur Boyd's former property on the Shoalhaven River.

Featuring the work of independent-minded and ambitious artists working beyond the constraints of the contemporary academy, this publication documents the Foundation's commitment to preserving, extending, and renewing the media in which the greatest art of the western tradition has been produced. The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue are dedicated to Trevor Andersen, whose vision and generosity made the Foundation's forty-year legacy possible.