Publishers
The Art Gallery of Western Australia+
The Art Gallery of Western Australia produces a range of publications including annual reports and exhibition catalogues.
Archer Magazine+
Archer Magazine is an award-winning print publication about sexuality, gender and identity. It is published twice-yearly in Melbourne, Australia, with a focus on lesser-heard voices and the uniqueness of our experiences.
Artspace, Sydney+
Artspace’s commitment to publishing builds on a rich history of producing critical readers, exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. An important platform for presenting contemporary art in printed form to a broad audience, their publications complement the artistic program by expanding on the ideas and critical thinking behind exhibitions and projects.
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA)+
The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) plays an inspirational and critical role investing in artistic and wider communities, leading the cultural conversation and setting the agenda for contemporary art.
Biennale of Sydney+
The Biennale provides a platform for art and ideas and is recognised for commissioning and presenting innovative, thought-provoking art from Australia and around the globe.
Black Inc.+
Founded in 2000, Black Inc. is an independent Australian publisher of quality non-fiction and fiction books, based in Melbourne.
Imprints include the Quarterly Essay journal and La Trobe University Press books. Passionate about important new works of history, politics, biography, criticism and current affairs, as well as novels that open up new worlds.
Creative Minds+
Creative Minds exists to provide practical advice and oodles of inspiration for creative business owners
In 2014, Melbourne-based graphic designer Tess McCabe founded Creative Minds when she saw an opportunity to create high-quality books and resources for creatives like herself: people who want to do meaningful work without the administrative overload.
DelMonico Books+
DelMonico Books publishes visually distinctive, award-winning books on art, photography, design, architecture, fashion, and culture, in partnership with museums, artists, and galleries.
Discipline+
Discipline is a contemporary art publisher and journal co-founded by Nicholas Croggon and Helen Hughes in 2011. It is based on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Cordite Publishing+
It's publications are the quarterly Cordite Poetry Review – an Australian and international journal of poetry, criticism and research – and series of print books.
Countess.Report+
The Countess.Report is an evolving independent collaborative research project led by artists; Amy Prcevich, Elvis Richardson, Miranda Samuels and Shevaun Wright, with special guest collaborators including Melinda Rackham, co-author of Countess: Spoiling Illusions Since 2008 (2023).
Countess.Report investigates the structures and frameworks that govern artistic production and legitimation in the Australian contemporary art world. They publish data and analysis on trends in gender representation, the education of artists, the distribution of arts funding, media representation and related topics. This research is self-published in quadrennial sector-wide reports.
The work of Countess is both art and advocacy; their role as artists is essential to the research they publish.
The Design Files+
The Design Files is Australia’s most popular digital design publication. Covering real Australian homes, gardens, art, architecture, interior design, furniture, textiles, homewares, food, and more!
Founded by Melbourne stylist Lucy Feagins in 2008, The Design Files is now a team of women with an amazing, highly engaged community of readers and social media followers.
With a passion for original content, high quality photography, videography and writing, they love telling great design stories, document beautiful spaces, and keeping readers informed about creative happenings Australia-wide.
Drill Hall Publishing+
The Drill Hall Gallery has established a nation-wide reputation for landmark exhibitions: retrospectives, mid-career surveys and thematic exhibitions by leading contemporary artists. Because of the rapport the gallery has developed with artists, curators, critics, academics and collectors, the publications relating to these exhibitions often acquire a unique significance. They proudly promote a finer appreciation of contemporary art in its most diverse forms.
Flinders Lane Gallery+
Complementing its comprehensive year-long program of solo exhibitions, the gallery also produces critical catalogue essays and publications to supplement the works produced by each of its featured artists.
Formist Editions+
Formist Editions produce significant publications of volume and clarity by facilitating the documentation of creators and culture. Aspiring to share content that is engaging, progressive and beautiful, they search for a synergy between form and content that is inspiring, enlightening and entertaining.
Editorially Formist Editions is passionate and direct. They wish to inform the reader without pretence and maintain a point of view that is thoughtful and accessible. Formist Editions books are tactile and beautiful, while remaining relevant and informative. When creating a publication, they meticulously produce all aspects of the project, from concept through editorial and design, to fabrication, marketing and distribution. Our commitment to quality and progressive publishing is exhibited in every edition.
GARRU EDITIONS+
GARRU EDITIONS is the publishing arm of Brook Andrew Studio. The publications include both digital and printed-matter. They are excited to collaborate with creatives, writers and communities to produce books, essays and bespoke experiments.
Geelong Gallery +
Geelong Gallery’s purpose is to provide an inclusive experience of art that will enrich people’s lives.
Giramondo Publishing+
The Giramondo Publishing Company is an independent, Australian, university-based literary publisher of award-winning poetry, fiction and non-fiction, renowned for the quality of its writing, editing and book design.
Giramondo was established in December 1995 in order to publish innovative and adventurous literary work, that might not otherwise find publication because of its subtle commercial appeal; to stimulate exchange between Australian writers and readers and their counterparts overseas; and to build a common ground between the academy and the marketplace.
Hardie Grant Books+
An independent publishing and media business working with authors and brands to create high-quality books, magazines, websites and content across platforms.
Ikuntji Artists+
Ikuntji Artists is a member-based, not for profit, Aboriginal art centre. It is situated in the community of Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji), and has a board of seven Indigenous directors all of whom live and work locally. Haasts Bluff has a population of around 150 people.
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane+
The IMA has a longstanding commitment to research and a rich history of publishing critical readers, exhibition catalogues, and artist monographs. They publish between three and five volumes a year, most of them in tandem with their exhibition program.
Lenz Press+
Lenz publishes books on contemporary art, photography, architecture and design.
Their imprint includes catalogues, monographs, theory and artist books.
M.33+
M.33 is an independent Melbourne based organisation which since 1993 has represented some of Australia’s most interesting photographic artists.
Magabala Books+
Magabala publishes up to 15 new titles annually across all genres: children’s picture books, memoir, fiction (junior, YA and adult), non-fiction, graphic novels, social history and poetry.
Magabala Books is an Indigenous publishing house. Publishing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers, storytellers and illustrators is our mandate. They are proud to celebrate the dynamism and diversity of First Nations’ voices.
McClelland Gallery+
McClelland is a unique art gallery and sculpture park set amongst 16 hectares of natural bushland. Since opening in 1971, it has operated as a private art institution governed by a board of Trustees. McClelland showcasse the value of Australian culture through a focus on sculpture and its connection to the environment and is the only gallery dedicated to sculpture and spatial practice in Australia.
Memo Review Incorporated+
Since 2017, Memo Review has been Melbourne’s only platform for weekly art criticism, each Saturday morning. Memo was founded by an independent collective of arts writers and historians wanting to fill a gap in quality art criticism. In 2022, they expanded their reach north, publishing fortnightly reviews of exhibitions in Sydney and regional NSW.
They publish reviews of a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces, offering critical perspectives from a new generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists.
Memo Review Inc. is an independent not-for-profit organisation without institutional affiliation.
Monash University Publishing+
Australia’s largest university established Monash University Publishing in 2010.
For more than 10 years, Monash University Publishing has built a reputation as a trusted source of expert information from diverse perspectives. Their ambition is to build on this reputation; to inform, influence and inspire public discourse.
Their authors challenge assumptions, provide alternatives and promote change.
Mossenson Art Foundation+
Mossenson Art Foundation was established in 2010 by Dan and Dr. Diane Mossenson.
The objects of the Foundation are to preserve, promote and record cultural heritage, promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and craft, and publish and support scholarly research of art practice in Australia.
Mousse Publishing+
Mousse Publishing is an independent publishing house established in 2008, specializing in contemporary art and culture.
Mousse Publishing develops tailored editorial projects with artists, curators, editors, galleries, museums, biennials, and other cultural institutions, both public and private.
Museums Victoria+
Publishing a wide range of titles that explore and celebrate the diverse wonders of their collections and exhibitions.
National Gallery of Australia+
The National Gallery has a dynamic publishing list that spans print and digital publications. Combining new writing and perspectives on art and artists, high-quality reproductions and content, publications are developed for a broad international audience.
Publishing supports the vision of the National Gallery to be the international reference point for art in Australia, inspiring all people to explore, experience and learn.
Negative Press+
Negative Press is a publisher of limited edition prints and artists' books by contemporary Australian artists. Their aim is to extend the discourse between contemporary art and printed matter.
Papi Press (Melbourne)+
Papi Press is an independent Australian publisher.
Perimeter Editions+
Perimeter Editions is the award-winning publishing imprint of Melbourne-based bookstore Perimeter Books and distribution house Perimeter Distribution.
Releasing its first publication in 2012, Perimeter Editions’ focus rests on publishing autonomous books in close collaboration with photographers, artists, curators and writers. Its publications exhibit a criticality and sensitivity to content and form.
Planthunter Projects+
The Planthunter Ode Project is an attempt to grow a garden of words that celebrate the ways we’re entangled with each other and the other-than-human world. It’s about stepping into relationship and gifting personal offerings of attention, imagination and gratitude to those who sustain us.
Powerhouse Publishing+
POWERHOUSE PUBLISHING is the print and digital publishing division of the Powerhouse Museum, with over 70 titles in the back catalogue. The future-focused publishing house spans industrial design and the decorative arts, science, technology, architecture, textile and fashion design as well as the culinary arts, First Nations design, music, transport, astronomy and popular culture. These publications are adjuncts to exhibitions and projects, and they are conceived, commissioned and produced as high-quality books with an appeal to a national and international readership.
Power Publications+
Since the late 1970s the Power Institute has published pamphlets, monographs and edited volumes. In the 1980s, they established a peer-reviewed imprint, Power Publications. They often co-publish, and recently established the "Powered by Power" imprint to support contemporary Australian artists.
Sheila Foundation+
Sheila Foundation is a national philanthropic foundation with the aim of overturning decades of gender bias by writing Australian women artists back into our art history and ensuring equality for today’s women artists.
Surpllus (Melbourne)+
Surpllus is an independent publisher of printed matter pertaining to critical and speculative practices across art, design, architecture, writing and curation. Projects include (but are not limited to) artists’ books and zines, exhibition catalogues, and critical writing and Theory.
Surpllus is conceived as a platform for dialogue and exchange, and as a channel for the initiation or dissemination of unconventional print projects. Surpllus is also intended as an inquiry into contemporary publishing strategies — projects therefore differ in respect of form, print run and mode of distribution.
TarraWarra Museum of Art+
TarraWarra Museum of Art is a leading not-for-profit public art gallery that features inventive and stimulating exhibitions and programs about twentieth and twenty-first century art, and holds one of the country’s most important collections of Australian art from the 1930s to the present day.
Tebrikunna Press+
TENSE PAST, with its powerful truth-telling narrative, is published by artist Julie Gough under her imprint Tebrikunna Press, with funding from Australia Council for the Arts and Arts Tasmania, Julie Gough, Warner Design, Bellendena Small Grants Scheme, and the OUTSIDE THE BOX / Earth Arts Rights team.
Third Text Publications+
Third Text has established itself as the leading international journal dedicated to the critical analysis of contemporary art in the global field. It has brought with that analysis a particular focus on both the impact of globalisation on cultural practices and the lessons of postcolonial theory. The journal has created a significant archive of critical knowledge to benefit artists, researchers and art historians.
Third Text offers a platform to pursue timely dialogue about experimental cultures, to advance independent education, and to study the historical and current conditions of art’s practice, reception and distribution worldwide.
Wakefield Press+
Wakefield Press is a leading independent publishing company based in Adelaide, South Australia. Wakefield Press has had many incarnations over the years, with the current iteration having turned 30 in 2019.
They publish around 40 titles each year on a diverse range of topics including literary and popular fiction, young adult and middle grade fiction, history, biography, art, poetry, food, wine, the environment and education.