Melinda Rackham
writes + speaks on art & artists ecosystems + injustice crafting critical dialogues & texts @art / #academia / in_print / online::
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Claude Creighton spots Spoiling Illusions at AGNSW Gallery Shop.
@ these Great book stores Now
- Sydney: AGNSW Store, Gleebooks
- Melbourne/Victoria: NGV Design Store, CCP, ACCA, Readings, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Perimeter
- Brisbane: IMA
- Perth: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions since 2008 boOK FORUM Event: Institute of Modern Art - IMA Meanjin/Brisbane 6pm - 5 october 2023
"Rackham and Richardson bring decades of data to life in bold and brash colour. CoUNTess is no dry statistical survey — it is commentary of the biting kind, enlivened with witty humour and pithy observations.
Join us to hear the publication’s co-authors in conversation, and take home your copy of this unflinching publication."
what are PEople saying about CoUNTess: Spoiling Illusions since 2008 ?
A heady mix of rigorous research, harrowing and humorous blog posts, hard crunched data, theoretical musings and intimate revelations in 216 glorious full colour pages, including a gallery platforming visual art works from 40 Australian contemporary not male artists.
- Jennifer Mills reviews Spoiling Illusions in The Saturday Paper: We don’t speak enough about the emotional dimensions of these structural deficits, how it feels to play when the game’s rigged against us. This book states an intention to be “welcomingly humorous, justifiably enraging and rigorously researched”, but it exceeds those goals. Its candidness also makes it deeply moving: a heartfelt and irresistible call to action.
- Dr Dianna Carroll writes in Arts Hub It is a salutary benchmark for accountability in the arts as it dramatically quantifies the status of women and non-binary artists.