Raymond Arnold's prodigious and masterful body of work in printmaking places him in the foremost rung of practitioners of the discipline in Australia and beyond. The artist has been traveling regularly to Europe for the past twenty years to research the intaglio print medium, and has refined his own etching technique at the famous Parisian studio of Lacourière et Frélaut.
He has held over 47 solo exhibitions and participated in many group shows in Australia and overseas and is represented in the collections of the Imperial War Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Bibliothèque Nationale and the Musée Courbet in France. In Australia, the National Gallery, the Australian Parliament House and various state galleries have his prints in their collections.
Raymond Arnold currently lives and works in Queenstown, Tasmania where he has set up the regional art space LARQ – Landscape Art Research Queenstown – which fosters exhibitions, workshops, residencies and forums.

The insightful text by Sean Kelly is complemented with over 30 full colour images. This beautifully produced monograph is a worthy addition to contemporary Australian fine art publishing.

Reading Robinson: Companion Essays to Friendly Mission brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in a timely analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829−1834, edited by NJB Plomley and republished in 2008. Until now, Friendly Mission has rarely been considered in a context beyond the immediacy of Van Diemen’s Land. Yet George Augustus Robinson’s diverse writings constitute a body of work that typically has one set of meanings for local readers, and another for those outside its sphere of production. Robinson’s texts are exemplary of the ways in which colonial texts circulated around what Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex, has called ‘imperial networks.’

Reading Robinson, while remaining cognisant of local resonances, extends Friendly Mission from parochial particularity and situates it within international contexts, both in terms of contemporary accounts of colonial / settler contact, conflict with indigenes and current scholarship analysing this material.

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Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829 – 1834, edited by NJB Plomley, was first published in 1966. This monumental and controversial work has long been recognised as a major source document of Australian colonial history. Covering Robinson’s activities from 1829-34, Friendly Mission describes his conciliation attempts with the Tasmanian Aborigines and their subsequent relocation to Flinders Island. Even as the island’s Aboriginal population was being decimated by the policies, diseases and social influences of the European settlers – and Robinson has been considered complicit in their demise – his brilliantly detailed journals were destined to become an important record of the lives and customs of those people.

The 2008 republication of Friendly Mission, by the Queen Victorian Museum and Art Gallery and Quintus Publishing, contains material omitted from the first edition and has an extensive new index, to enable researchers and general readers alike significantly improved access to this enormous, valuable work.

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Tasmanian-based David Keeling is a painter fully grounded in western art's long history of classicism, the tradition which runs from Botticelli to Poussin, from Puvis de Chavannes to De Chirico. He uses that artistic language − that combination of figuration, narrative and landscape − to describe Australia's shorter and sadder history of invasion and ecological destruction.

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Giving Ground: Media and Environmental Conflict in Tasmania by Libby Lester, journalist and media academic, expertly weaves together two major concerns of our time: the shifting roles and responsibilities of news media, and the choices and decisions we make about our environment.

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Philip Wolfhagen: Surface Tensions is an art monograph detailing the work and career of this foremost Australian landscape artist, winner of the  Wynne Prize in the 2007 Archibald Prize suite of contemporary art prizes. Text by Peter Timms.

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Pat Brassington: This is Not a Photograph is an art monograph examining the work of this leading photomedia artist. Text by Anne Marsh.

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