Dr Melinda Rackham is an artist, curator and writer. Her pioneering Australian internet art wove tales of intimacy and identity online, and her scholarly pursuits in virtual worlds saw her founding and producing the international media arts forum -empyre-. With the rise of web 2.0 her engagement shifted to the broader spectrum of media arts, art/science, making and design practices. As a curator and commentator, and director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology, she broadened audiences and access to new artforms. As her early network art finds a new generation of viewers, Melinda occasionally creates playful digital public interventions. She writes poetry, socially informed fictive memoir and continues to interrogate the philosophies and processes of interdisciplinary arts practices. You can find out more at Dr Rackham’s website: www.subtle.net.
Catherine Truman is an established artist working across the disciplines of art and science. She is co-founder and current partner of Gray Street Workshop - an internationally renowned artist-run workshop established in 1985 in Adelaide, South Australia, where she currently works and lives.
admineversion
'Rackham's approach is to create a story world around Truman that is as much a biography as it is a history of jewellery and object-making in South Australia from the 1970s to the present day. Accompanied by luscious full-colour photographs by Grant Hancock, the monograph is a beautifully produced object in its own right.' - Julianne Pierce, Artlink
admineversion
'A visual feast … This publication made me want to book a plane trip to Adelaide straight away and run to the Gray Street Workshop … Hopefully this marvellous book will be snapped up by gallery and university libraries as well as collectors and scientists and treasured for years to come.' - Lynne Lancaster, Sydney Arts Guide