Mostyn Bramley Moore

The rise of social networking and open-source technology, the return of community-focussed activities (e.g. gardens, knitting groups, food cooperatives) and creative collectives across the fields of design and the visual arts have reawakened the discourse around human capital, flat structures and collectives as a means for ‘making’ the things of everyday life. As the essays presented in this collection illustrate, there is an emerging field of discourse about the potential of the collective as an organising and generative community structure that links creativity, social change and politics. Furthermore it is clear that in this developing context there are a number of issues central to design practice, such as authorship, agency and aesthetics that are in the process of re-evaluation and critique. Bringing together views of practitioners, historians and theorists, this volume examines the etymology, boundaries and practices that the idea of the collective affords. It is broadly organised into sections on architecture, digital technologies and counter-cultural practices and includes historical and contemporary accounts of design collectives from a range of disciplinary viewpoints.

Annotation. A publication of works for Regional Gallery Exhibition by Mostyn Bramley-Moore, Terri Brooks,Michael Cusack, Miles Hall, Anton Hart, Anthony T O'Carroll, Claire Primrose, Amanda Ryan, Peter Sharp and Ann Thomson.

Pictorial history celebrating 25 years of The Victorian College of the Arts. Founded in 1972 the school draws upon its distinguished antecedent institutions such as the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, Ballet Victoria School and Melbourne Teachers College. Highlights the aims of the College, such as nourishing artistic talent and passing it on to the next generation by teaching and mentoring. Illustrated throughout with photos and includes chapters on each school, interviews and references. Foreword by Governor of Victoria Sir James Gobbo. Simultaneously published in hardcover and paperback.

In this new volume, Duggan focuses his camera-like gaze on inner-city Brisbane where the encroaching mangroves line the river suburbs.

Offers an artist's view of life and art in Sydney during the better part of the 20th century. His career began in pre-war Sydney, continued in war-time Bougainville, then in post-war England and back in Sydney. Documents the life and works of a Sydney artist who has witnessed the transition from modernism to post-modernism.