Portrait Gallery Store
Portrait Gallery Store is an independent bookstore based in Canberra at the National Portrait Gallery. We have over 14,000 titles online and instore. With our focus on art, design & photography. While also offering an extensive range of biography, history, literature & childrens' picture books.
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FASHION
"Fashion" documents the countries' current key players, showcasing the work of 70 leading antipodean designers of women's and men's fashion. This important book looks at the fresh newcomers as well as those who have weathered the industry's ups and downs and are as relevant today as they were several decades ago.
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KINGS WAY
Kings Way tells the story of Melbourne's emerging underground writing scene and the youth whose sole purpose was to get up. Using the city's walls and trains as their ephemeral canvas, these writers pioneered the elaborate spray-paint artworks that continue to dominate Melbourne's cityscape.
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DETRITUS
UWA Publishing has gathered together a selection of Robyn Archer's most memorable keynote speeches and memorial lectures from the past seven years. These words were written to be 'performed' and as such Robyn regards them as Detritus, that which remains of the act of public speaking.
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STREET STUDIO
he book showcases their work and their thoughts on key issues in contemporary urban art. This includes the ways in which street art has the potential to transform both public places and gallery space, the challenges of making work in urban spaces, the limits and potential to transform of a temporary art form, and its entry in the mainstream as one of the new most collectable art forms.
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BEST AUSTRALIAN
ARCHITECTURE
The publishers of the popular magazine titles Abode, Winning Design and Best Abodes,Think's Best Of series is an inspirational set of pictorial books filled with what is "now" in Australian architecture and design. Each book will grab the reader's attention and will walk them through a selection of Australia's best homes and gardens..
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WAVEWATCHER'S COMPANION
One bright February afternoon, on a beach in Cornwall, Gavin Pretor-Pinney took a break from cloudspotting and started watching the waves rolling into shore. Mesmerised, he wondered where they had come from, and decided to find out.
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BEST ON GROUND
'Who do you barrack for?' Nothing unites or divides people as much as the tribal loyalty of AFL supporters. Combining passion for the game with a talent for words, seventeen writers explore the full range of supporters' emotions, from the fervour of a convert to the weariness of the long-term sufferer, the guilt of the turncoat to the joy of the flag-winner.
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DRIVING LIKE CRAZY
Jump in and buckle-up. P.J. O'Rourke delivers his rapid-fire wit from the driver's seat of Buicks, Land Rovers, Harley-Davidsons and at least one Soviet army surplus truck. "Driving Like Crazy" is a hilarious collection of fender-bending pieces that career along at O'Rourke's full-throttle, breakneck Gonzo best.
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