La Trobe Art Institute publications
Access an archive of our exhibition guides from 2020 onwards all in one place, or visit our Opal Repository to view catalogues and details of La Trobe University Museum of Art (LUMA) exhibitions from 1970 until now.
2025
- Healing: Art & Institutional Care exhibition guide [PDF 1.3 MB]
- Healing: Art & Institutional Care - poetry associated with the exhibition [PDF 408.0 KB]
- Aziz Sohail on سفر نصیب / Safar Naseeb / Fated to journey [PDF 147.9 KB]
- Unbecoming exhibition guide [PDF 1.6 MB]
- Storytelling Liberation exhibition guide [PDF 106.3 KB]
- International Women's Day event transcript
[PDF 224.4 KB]
2024
- Parched exhibition guide
[PDF 193.8 KB] - Maya Hodge on Shirley Purdie's That Warrambany Flood (2012)
[PDF 97.6 KB] - I think future, I think past exhibition guide
[PDF 71.4 KB] - I wanna be your anti-mirror exhibition guide
[PDF 1.7 MB]
2023
- Collecting debt and other bad moods exhibition guide
[PDF 87.7 KB] - Circles of Dialogue exhibition guide
[PDF 1.2 MB] - Maternal Inheritances exhibition guide
[PDF 217.5 KB] - Poem by Jazz Money for Maternal Inheritances
[PDF 32.3 KB] - Homo sacer: life unlawed exhibition guide
[PDF 77.7 KB] - Further reading: Geoff Raby Collection of Chinese Art
2022
- Citational choices exhibition guide [PDF 331.3 KB]
- Personal Mythologies exhibition guide [PDF 205.7 KB]
- Attention seeker exhibition guide [PDF 207.4 KB]
2021
- Danica Chappell, Far from the eye exhibition guide
2020
- One foot on the ground, one foot in the water [PDF 9.1MB]
- Rivers of Gold exhibition guide [PDF 1.1 MB]
Foreword: Ma. Victoria T. Herrera & Yael A. Buencamino
Curators: Ma. Victoria T. Herrera and Paul Northam
Essays: Ramon E.S. Lerma; Dr Vincent Alessi & Dr Trevor Hogan; Ma. Victoria T. Herrera
ISBN: 978-0-646-96940-4
2016 publications
Tormentor [pdf 5.7 MB]
Text by:
Curator: Michael Brennan
ISBN: 9781684188505
Artist(s): Chris Bond
A Language of the Vanishing [pdf 4.2 MB]
Filthy Monkey Design
Text by: Dr Anita La Peitra
Curator: Dr Anita La Pietra
ISBN:
Cost: free e-catalogue
Artist(s): Claudia Terstappen
DO I LOOK LIKE I CARE [pdf 4.8 MB]
Text by: Dr Vincent Alessi
Curator: Dr Vincent Alessi
ISBN: 9781921915932
Cost: FREE
Artist(s): FIONA McMONAGLE
BEYOND THE FRUSTUM
Filthy Monkey Design
Text by: Paul Northam
Curator: Paul Northam
ISBN: 9781921915970
Cost:
Artist(s): SIMON FINN
2015 publications
THE GLOBAL DUST PROJECT AISLES OF THE DEAD [pdf 6.1 MB]
29 pages with colour images.
Text by: Michael Brennan / Agathe Lisé-Pronovost
Curator: Michael Brennan and Anita La Pietra
ISBN: 9781921915710
Cost: Free digital download
Artist(s): Hannah Bertram
KATHERINE HATTAM BACKWATERS [pdf 6.7 MB]
110 pages
Text by: Anita La Pietra
Curator: Anita La Pietra
ISBN: 9781921915611
Cost: free e-catalogue
Artist(s): Katherine Hattam
OCTOROON [pdf 2.7 MB]
28 pages with colour images.
Text by: Michael Brennan & Bindi Cole Chocka
Curator: Michael Brennan & Bindi Cole Chocka
ISBN: 9781921915680
Cost: Free digital download
Artist(s): Peta Clancy & Helen Pynor, Bindi Cole Chocka, Steven Rhall
2014 publications
MORTEM IN IMAGINE [pdf 1.7 MB]
22 pages with colour images.
Text by: Michael Brennan
Curator: Michael Brennan
ISBN: 9781921915581
Cost: Free digital download
Artist(s): Natalie Ryan
2008 publications
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Text:
Curator: Hannah Elliott
ISBN: 978 192 1377 303
Cost: $10
Artist(s): Brook Andrew, eX De Medici, Destiny Deacon, Fiona Fowley, William Kelly, Rosemary Laing, Fiona Lowry, Jiri Tibor Novak, Mike Parr, Jim Patterson, Mary Lou Pavlovic
Vera Möller: Neomporhics (Neugemüse)
Text:
Curator: Vincent Alessi
ISBN: 978 192 1377 464
Cost: $10
Artist(s): Vera Möller
Often Spotted Rarely Seen: Celebrating 40 years of Collecting at La Trobe University
Text:
Curator: Dr. Alana O’Brien
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): Sydney Ball, Charles Blackman, Paul Borg, John Coburn, Allen David, Joel Elenberg, James Gleeson, David Disher, Petrina Hicks, Frank Hodgkinson, Roger Kemp, Clifton Pugh, Inge King, Charles Robb, Vera Möller, Mark Schaller, Dorothy Napangardi, Jan Senbergs, Fiona Omeenyo, Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, Wendy Stavrianos, Peter Tyndall, Tina Vlassopulos, Karen Ward
This Way Up
Text:
Curator: Dr Alana O'Brien
ISBN: 978 192 1377 389
Cost: $10
Artist(s): Yvonne Audette, Sydney Ball, Asher Bilu, Angela Brennan, Sadie Chandler, Lawrence Daws, Leonard French, Jennifer Goodman, Dale Hickey, Frank Hodgkinson, George Johnson, Roger Kemp, Helen Kennedy, Inge King, Elwyn Lynn, Rod McRae, Rodney Milgate, Patrick Mung Mung, Mitjili Napurrula, John Olsen, Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, Lenton Parr, John Peart, Owen Piggott, Stanislaus Rapotec, Charles Reddington, Jan Senbergs, Peggy Perrins Shaw, Dawn Sime, Anne Simpson, Aida Tomescu
Two Way Traffic: Émigré Artists represented in the La Trobe University Art Collection
Text:
Curator: Dr. Sheridan Palmer
ISBN: 978 192 1377 358
Cost: $10
Artist(s): Bernard Boles, Joseph Brown, Karl Duldig, Erwin Fabian, Maximillian Fuerring, Anne Marie Graham, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, Frank Hodgkinson, Louis Kahan, Peter Kaiser, Grahame King, Inge King, Bruno Leti, Elwyn Lynn, Andor Mészàros, Joseph Stanislaus Ostoja-Kotkowski, Lenton Parr, Paul Partos, Carl Plate, Stanislaus Rapotec, Charles Reddington, Danila Vassilieff, Frank Werther, Teisutis Zikaras
2007 publications
Curious Forms: Selected works from the La Trobe University and City of Banyule Art Collections
Text:
Curator: Dr Alana O'Brien, Wendy Garden
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): Arthur Ashby, Kate Ellis, Ian Ferguson, Mari Funaki, Gwyn Hansen Piggott, Gretchen Hillhouse, Judy Holding, Curtis Hore, Edwina Kearney, Jan Learmonth, Carlier Makigawa, Maggie May, Vera Möller, Lenton Parr, Mike Parr, Rosslyn Piggott, Guiseppe Romeo, Karen Ward, John Wolseley, Keith Wong
Allen David - The Phoenix Song: Works on paper from the La Trobe University Art Collection
Text:
Curator: Hannah Elliott
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): Allen David
KITE: Mike Brown and the Sydney twelve
Text:
Curator: Vincent Alessi
ISBN: 192 1377 181
Cost: $15
Artist(s): Mike Brown, John Coburn, Leonard Hessing, Frank Hodgkinson, Robert Hughes, Robert Klippel, Colin Lanceley, John Olsen, Carl Plate, Emmanuel Raft, Stanislaus Rapotec, Charles Reddington, William Rose
My Country: Abstract Interpretations of the Australian Landscape
Text:
Curator: Vincent Alessi
ISBN: 192 1377 068
Cost: $2
Artist(s): Mac Betts, David Blackburn, Mike Brown, Lawrence Daws, Elizabeth Gower, Mandy Gunn, Frank Hodgkinson, Judy Holding, George Johnson, Colin Lanceley, Bek Mifsud, Patrick Mung Mung, Michael Tjangala Mutji, Gloria Tamerre Petyarre, Charles Reddington, Mark Schaller, Helicopter Joe Tjungurrayi, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrul, John Waller, Frank Werther, Fred Williams
Clifton Pugh: Printmaker
Text:
Curator: Dr Alana O'Brien
ISBN: 192 1377 280
Cost: $15
Artist(s): Clifton Pugh
Mark Schaller: Drawing with Chainsaws
Text:
Curator: Vincent Alessi
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): Mark Schaller
2006 publications
Between the Covers: Printmakers, Books and Narrative
Text:
Curator: Penny Peckham
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): Andrew Antoniou, Rosalind Atkins, Charles Blackman, Dean Bowen, Hermia Boyd, Vincent Drane, Julie Fleming, Craig Gough, Juli Haas, Barbara Hanrahan, Katherine Hattam, Robert Jacks, Tim Jones, Jennifer Marshall, John Robinson, Peter Saunders, Eric Thake, Mervyn Napier Waller, Barry Weston
Common Ground
Text:
Curator: Dr Alana O'Brien
ISBN:
Cost: $5
Artist(s): Ian Abdulla, Roy Wuyngambi Ashley, Henri Bastin, Gumana Birrikitji, Bernard Boles, Mona Burns Isyifunma, Sam Byrne, Didjbaka Dirrdi, Barney Ellaga, Neil Fettling, Mithinari Gurruwiwi, Treahna Hamm, Judy Holding, Banduk Marika,, Bek Mifsud, Michael Mutji Tjangala, Billy Nabegeyo, Jimmy Njiminjuma, John Olsen, Kathleen Petyarre, Clifton Pugh, Angelina Pwerle, Marie Christine Ryder, Tommy Lowry Tjapaljarri, Iain Topliss, Eric Stewart, Douglas Stubbs, John Waller, Harry J. Wedge, Fred Williams, John Wolseley, Jack Wunawun
Draw the Line: A Survey of Drawings, Eleanor Hart and Daniel Moynihan
Text:
Curator: Vincent Alessi
ISBN: 192 0948 589
Cost: $2
Artist(s): Eleanor Hart and Daniel Moynihan
Ex[posed]: photographic images of the body
Text:
Curator: Hannah Elliott
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): Pat Brassington, Marryanne Christodoulou, Bill Henson, Leah King-Smith, Norman Lindsay, Deborah Paauwe, Viki Petherbridge, Naomie Sunner
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Junction 2006: Recent Works by John Waller, Artist in Residence
Text:
Curator: Dr Alana O'Brien
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): John Waller
Valid Editions
Text:
Curator: Vincent Alessi
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): Jonas Balsaitis, Charles Blackman, Dean Bowen, Arthur Boyd, John Brack, Filomena Coppola, Noel Counihan, Peter Ellis, Murray (Vaughan Murray) Griffin, Barbara Hanrahan, Siri Hayes, Bill Henson, Petrina Hicks, Roger Kemp, Franz Kempf, Les Kossatz, Alun Leach-Jones, Bea Maddock, Jennifer Marshall, Ngarralja Tommy May, Daniel Moynihan, Mary Anne Mungatopi, Janice Murray, Sidney Nolan, Elizabeth Nyumi, Mike Parr, Paul Partos, Jimmy Pike, Naeem Rana, Narinda Reeders, Eric Thake, Helicopter Joe Tjungurrayi, Fred Williams
2005 publications
John Waller: Artist in Residence (2005)
Text:
Curator: Vincent Alessi
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): John Waller
2004 publications
John Waller: Recent Works (2004)
Text:
Curator:
ISBN:
Cost: $2
Artist(s): John Waller
