Upcoming & Recent books from The Beagle Press
The Beagle Press was established in 1980 by Lou Klepac, to publish books on Australian art and has published and produced well over 100 fine art books to date. The Beagle Press has produced books for many public institutions including the Art Gallery of New South Wales; Powerhouse Museum; National Library of Australia; and many leading artists. A high standard of quality and production is a hallmark of all Beagle Press books.
Julien Playoust Investigating Landscape 2025
Following his survey exhibition at the Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, this book features the dynamic works produced between 2019 and 2024, which have been inspired by his long association with the landscape of Central West Region of NSW on the Belubula River.
The book has an introduction by Steve Lopes with a preface and commentaries by the artist.
Hardcover | 144 pages | 250 x 330 mm | ISBN 9780947349752 | RRP $70.00
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The Art of Roslyn Kean by Sasha Grishin
Roslyn Kean is one of Australia’s most respected and admired printmakers. Whereas many artists of her generation were inspired by the modernist mythology of the rejection of tradition and proceeded to overthrow the prevailing norms in art, Kean in her art practice sought to embrace an ancient printmaking tradition and to give it new life within a contemporary context.
After initial art training in Sydney followed by further study at The Slade in London, it was while studying in Tokyo and already aged in her early thirties, that Kean was completely seduced by traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking – mokuhanga – and became deeply immersed in Japanese cultural traditions. Now, almost forty years later, Kean is an internationally recognised practitioner of mokuhanga and is revered by her peers as an outstanding print artist, an inspirational teacher and a sage.
When Kean developed her expertise in mokuhanga techniques and became deeply immersed in Japanese cultural traditions,
she also brought with her a passion for geometry and colour into her artmaking.
Hardcover | 204 pages | 290 x 280 mm
Sickert drawings 2022 by Lou Klepac OUT NOW
After an important apprenticeship with Whistler, Sickert changed his allegiance to Degas and adopted his method of painting from drawings. Drawing became the activity by which Sickert extracted what he called the visual facts enabling him to paint from drawings in the studio.
Sickert investigated the visible world, making innumerable notes on any scrap of paper; he also made detailed drawings as studies for his paintings. It is these drawings which are the subject of this book – drawings that are directly connected to some of his most important paintings, some of which are also reproduced.
The text is in two parts, The Artist’s Progress through the eyes of his contemporaries and The Painter’s Eye, which examines Sickert’s lifelong quest to find the best way to use oil paint and how drawings were made as blueprints for the paintings. As Sickert has written widely about drawing, the book contains a series of relevant passages from his critical writings.
Hardcover | 228 pages | 290 x 280 mm
Greg Hansell The Purity of Australian Light
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Greg Hansell is a landscape painter known for his exclusive devotion to pastels, some of which he makes himself. He is best known for his corrugated iron subject matter which features frequently in his work. He has been hung in the Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Prize numerous times and is twice winner of the Mosman Art Prize. This book covers Hansell’s work from 1982 to the present day. It has an introduction by Lou Klepac who selected the works, an essay by Carol Roberts, and recollections and notes by the artist.