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The Beagle Press was established in 1980 by Lou Klepac to publish books on Australian art. Lou Klepac, who during his period at the Art Gallery of South Australia and later at the Art Gallery of Western Australia as Senior Curator/Deputy Director (1974-80), took a special interest with the design and production of exhibition catalogues which made the AGWA 'nationally celebrated' (Alan McCulloch) in the 1970s. In Sydney Lou Klepac has had a long association with the Art Gallery of New South Wales and has produced some of their memorable catalogues: including the catalogues for the major retrospectives devoted to Donald Friend, Arthur Boyd, Jeffrey Smart, Sidney Nolan as well as other Gallery publications such as Australian Art in the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the catalogue on the work of Giorgio Morandi. The Beagle Press has also produced publications for other institutions including two important volumes for the Powerhouse Museum: Treasures of the Powerhouse Museum and Discovering the Powerhouse; Gold and Civilisation for the opening of the National Museum in Canberra; the James Gleeson Retrospective catalogue James Gleeson: beyond the screen of sight for the National Gallery of Victoria; Artists Tapestries for the Victorian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne; and The Genius of Donald Friend for the National Library of Australia. The Beagle Press has concentrated, however, on publishing books on individual artists, devoting some volumes to artists who have been unduly neglected such as Nora Heysen, Hector Gilliland and David Strachan. Among the long list of major monographs are those devoted to John Coburn, William Robinson, Bruno Leti, Margaret Woodward, Fred Cress, Albert Tucker, Jeffrey Smart, Rick Amor, Horace Trenerry and Robert Juniper. An important recent publication was The Fabric of Society. One of the major publications was the acclaimed Australian Painters of the Twentieth Century (2000) which featured the work of 19 important Australian artists from Margaret Preston to Brett Whiteley. The ...

Negative Press is an independent printer and publisher of contemporary art in print based in Melbourne, Australia. Our aim is to make projects that extend the discourse between contemporary art and printed matter. Editions published by Negative Press can be viewed in the Editions pages. Projects commissioned by artists and cultural institutions can be viewed in the Projects pages.

Lethologica Press is a small independent press based in the Western half of Australia. We publish contemporary art books/catalogues, poetry, prose, limited editions and online projects. The press was started in 2005 by artist Perdita Phillips, with writer Nyanda Smith coming on board a few years later. Lethologica Press originally began because we wanted to increase the visibility of contemporary artists in Western Australia and encourage analytical dialogue with their work via art catalogues with a critical writing component. As a press, we’re interested in publishing projects in a variety of forms both conventional and experimental. We work from hi-fi to improvisational. Subject matters are wide, and interest in the critical engagement with creative practices, is deep. On a practical note, we very much welcome news of projects from creative artists and writers, but we do not currently accept unsolicited manuscripts.