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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780992286415
Year: 2014
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Description:
Over their weekly conversation in an inner-city cafe,photographer Michael Wee persuaded his friend, painter andwriter Tom Carment, to embark on some walks into 'wild'Australia. Inexperienced long-distance bushwalkers, Michaeland Tom learned en route as they traversed hot, rainy,snow-covered, and bushfire-blackened terrain. AlongsideMichael's haunting, dramatic photographs, and Tom'sdelicately observed watercolours and drawings are storiesof each walk, interweaving history with anecdote, humourwith observation. Seven Walks is the companion book totheir adventures and captures the feeling of heading outon foot along a narrow track, into a beautiful landscape.
'Tom Carment's writing, like his art, seduces quietly: austere,highly articulate, always fresh, with a dry sense of the absurd.In this calm, modest register he commands great territories.'—Helen Garner
There's more information and stunning page spreads available on the Seven Walks website
TomCarment's work is on show atthe Art Gallery of NSW (as part ofDrawing Out: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2014) until Monday January 26
Read more about Tom's work in these wonderful reviews in The Sydney Morning Heraldand
ISBN: 9780992286415
Year: 2014
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Description:
Over their weekly conversation in an inner-city cafe,photographer Michael Wee persuaded his friend, painter andwriter Tom Carment, to embark on some walks into 'wild'Australia. Inexperienced long-distance bushwalkers, Michaeland Tom learned en route as they traversed hot, rainy,snow-covered, and bushfire-blackened terrain. AlongsideMichael's haunting, dramatic photographs, and Tom'sdelicately observed watercolours and drawings are storiesof each walk, interweaving history with anecdote, humourwith observation. Seven Walks is the companion book totheir adventures and captures the feeling of heading outon foot along a narrow track, into a beautiful landscape.
'Tom Carment's writing, like his art, seduces quietly: austere,highly articulate, always fresh, with a dry sense of the absurd.In this calm, modest register he commands great territories.'—Helen Garner
There's more information and stunning page spreads available on the Seven Walks website
TomCarment's work is on show atthe Art Gallery of NSW (as part ofDrawing Out: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2014) until Monday January 26
Read more about Tom's work in these wonderful reviews in The Sydney Morning Heraldand