About Face: Contemporary Portrait Painting in Australia and New Zealand printmaking The second in the series

The second in the series of artist monographs published by Art Collective WA - telling the stories of contemporary visual artists living and working in Western Australia - is a comprehensive survey of the 50-year career of Western Australian artist Jeremy Kirwan-Ward

From famous paintings to textiles and sculptures

observing as they went the presence of mature boab trees near the entrances to many of the sites

Works by artists Ros Auld

and artistic expression through a lens that is both expansive and deeply rooted in Indigenous perspectives

About Face: Contemporary Portrait Painting in Australia and New Zealand printmaking The second in the seriesFrom the Australian Book Industry Award winning author of Australian Abstract. Containing a sublime collection of works, Amber Creswell Bells book is a deeply fascinating insight into Antipodean portraiture. DAVID WENHAM Since the advent of the camera nearly two centuries ago, a portrait is no longer expected to be an exact likeness. From surrealist renderings to abstract interpretations, contemporary artists have shed the convention of traditional