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Aus Art Editions
PO Box 2482,
Fitzroy BC,
Victoria 3065
Phone: 61 3 9347 1022
Fax: 61 3 9347 2330
ausart@ausart.com.au
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The Authors
Susan McCulloch
Co-author of McCulloch’s Encyclopedia with her father Alan, Susan McCulloch has in her writings since 1980s placed on the public agenda many issues about Australian art and artists. Born in London in 1949 she arrived in Australia in 1950 and was brought up at Shoreham, Victoria, in a house much-visited by leading international and Australian artists, writers, academics, critics and many others. Her godparents included Oscar Hammerstein and his Australian-born wife Dorothy Hammerstein, civil rights lawyer and US political commentator William Winter, and founder of Meanjin magazine Clem Christesen and his wife Russian academic Nina Maximoff Christesen. She studied singing at Melbourne University Conservatorium of Music, was also an anti-war activist and in 1978 became a book publisher with her own independent book publishing company.
Since 1980 she has combined book publishing with writing on the arts for major Australian press including The Age, the Bulletin, the Melbourne Herald, and many other journals and magazines. She was The Australian newspaper's visual arts writer 1994-2003 and its national art critic 2003-2004. She has a longstanding passionate interest in Aboriginal culture, has written widely on the subject and travels as often as possible to the many art-producing communities throughout Australia. Her book, Contemporary Aboriginal Art; a guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture, (1999, 2001) has become a classic reference work on the subject.
The co-author of the Encyclopedia since 1990, in 2003 she established the publishing company Aus Art Editions with her daughter Emily to research, write and publish the Encyclopedia and a number of other books on Australian indigenous and other visual arts. She continues to write further books and reviews for The Australian Financial Review, The Australian Art Collector and other journals and magazines.
Susan McCulloch |
Emily McCulloch Childs |
Alan McCulloch |
The Team
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