Jennifer Palmer is a retired broadcaster with the ABC Radio National Social History Unit and other radio documentary feature programs. She has been a book and arts reviewer for national newspapers and an interviewer for oral history collections, and has published short stories and edited historical and heritage publications. A guide at the Art Gallery of South Australia for over a decade, she holds Masters degrees in both Educational Philosophy and Australian Literature from the universities of Adelaide and Sydney respectively.
Maggie Watson, an Art History Graduate of the University of Adelaide, holds a Masters in Fine and Decorative Art from the Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, and worked in the Modern British Art department of Christie's London before returning to Australia. As an art consultant she has written catalogue essays for several Australian artists including the catalogue notes for Richard Maurovic's Saatchi exhibition in 2014. Currently working on exhibitions for Museum Victoria she also serves as an arts editor and coordinated the Arts Program for the 2016 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. She has a commitment to supporting community arts programs and exhibitions that reflect our diverse cultural landscape.
Richard Maurovic is a technically skilled and highly creative artist of more than 30 years experience. Maurovic is based in Adelaide and has travelled widely; this is reflected in his many paintings of cities, ports, factories, small settlements and panoramas from around the world. Taking a deep interest in all aspects of transport and infrastructure, Maurovic's renderings of industrial and engineering projects are both appealing and authentic.
As a young adult, Maurovic worked as a livestock drover. This background underscores a genre of meat industry-related and livestock artworks, which he renders with sensitivity and erudition. In addition, Maurovic takes a profound interest in other aspects of food production, processing, distribution, display and consumption leading to many fine works of art exploring food in our society.
Years of art practice combined with ongoing development of skills and ideas has resulted in an ever-changing body of work reflecting a singular visual sense, as well as humour, intelligence and artistic style.
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'It is stunning, visually arresting and delicately draws the reader in.' - David Kary, Sydney Arts Guide
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'The story of Maurovic's life, his influences and interests is an engaging read on its own but, coupled with the breathtaking selection of Maurovic's work, as well as comparative selections of the works of influences Jeffrey Smart and David Dallwitz (among others), this book is a sensory feast … Wakefield Press have done justice to this important work by Palmer and Watson. More than an addition to a collection of art books or being relegated to the coffee table as a decorating device, this a book any art lover will want to go back to over and over.' - Monica Leahy, Glam Adelaide