Carton Clearance 50% OFF

For a limited time, we are offering the following titles as complete carton picks at reduced prices for schools as part of our EOFY stock clearance to make way for new books.

You may choose the title or titles you wish, up to a maximum of 6 or 8 items per carton. You may choose multiples of titles in order to make up complete cartons. 

Add to your cart, and it will show you the final price and any freight & handling which we charge for cost-recovery of transport only. At check out, pay the total and your order will be organised at our warehouse. Please note - books are heavy and freight charges have increased across Australia. We endeavour to provide the best rate given the carton weights listed below. Each carton weighs approx 9-11kg.

Title 1 - Patricia Piccinini: Nearly Beloved

Hardcover. Patricia Piccinini has represented Australia at the highest international level, and in 2016 was named the world’s most popular artist. She is well known for her hyperrealist sculptures since her 'Young Family' caused a sensation at the 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. She makes us care for these slightly strange beings, as they are set in often nurturing poses. Every year since, there has been a major exhibition of Patricia Piccinini’s work at an Australian or international gallery and her work is part of our major national collections. Written by Helen MacDonald.

Title 2 - Twelve Australian Photo Artists 

Hardcover with Jacket. This book presents Australia's most exciting and most loved photographers. A 3000-word text describes the work of each photographer and twelve pages of images show their most significant works. Each photographer conributed to the selection and the presentation of their work as well as being interviewed for the book. Pat Brassington combines dream and memory fragments. Brenda Croft investigates Indigenous Australian experience. Destiny Deacon employs satire to manipulate racist stereotypes in work that is volatile, humane and generous. Simryn Gill negotiates experiences of history and geography through making and circulating photographs. Bill Henson pictures the ambiguous zone of adolescent desire in works of imagination and sensibility. Rosemary Laing creates large-scale photographic scenes that dramatise human interaction with the natural world. Tracey Moffatt fuses violence and humour in images full of artifice that ultimately present real and important subjects. Debra Phillips evokes the past reverberating in the present. Jacky Redgate investigates vision, space and memory. Julie Rrap's photography is energetic and playful, with strange incongruities and unexpected twists and turns. David Stephenson uses the camera in an ongoing search for a photographic sublime. Anne Zahalka's photography questions sterotypes and explores the line between the natural and the artificial. Photography has been described as the art form of our time, and this book presents Australia's most exciting practitioners in a book that is inspiring and informative.

Title 3 - Half The Sky: Women Artists in China

Hardcover. This is the first and only Australian book on contemporary Chinese women artists. Artists in China are producing some of the most interesting and compelling contemporary art of our time. This book presents thirty-two women artists working China today. It was Chairman Mao who said, 'Women hold up half the sky.' Author and Director of Education and Research at the White Rabbit Gallery, Luise Guest, believes 'contemporary art in China is unlike anything in the rest of the world.' The mostly female artists include: Bu Hua is illustrated as a schoolchild of the revolutionary past on the cover; Bingyi, whose vast ink paintings become immersive, site-specific installations; Yu Hong, whose contemporary figures float on backgrounds of gold leaf; Qin Fengling, who squeezes thousands of figures from her paint tubes; and Lin Tianmiao, Yin Xiuzhen, Gao Rong and Cao Fei who have been included in recent international Biennales. This is a vital book representing diverse approaches and subject matter.  

All orders will be consolidated in our warehouse and shipped in ONE Carton.