GARRU EDITIONS is the publishing arm of Brook Andrew Studio. The publications include both digital and printed-matter. We are excited to collaborate with creatives, writers and communities to produce books, essays and bespoke experiments.
2022
galang 01
Powerhouse-galang collective
The galang collective convenes regularly to discuss the role of museums and other cultural institutions in the past and present colonisation of First Nations people. It’s a sovereign space to share culture and creative practice, and challenge narratives of sovereignty, decolonisation, identity, power and language.
galang 01 brings together transcripts of the collective’s powerful and moving conversations with individual members’ contributions. Essays from Léuli Eshrãghi, Liisa-Rávná Finbog and Biung Ismahasan explore the representation of First Nations art and culture; Mayunkiki and her collaborator Kanoko Tamura exchange a series of text messages that range across Indigenous identity, struggle and support; Brook Garru Andrew gives us an insight into his creative process with poems and sketches from his journals; and Emily McDaniel, Director First Nations at the Powerhouse, reflects on yindyamarra in the museum. First Nations designer Jenna Lee has designed the book as an object that has no beginning or end to reflect the circularity of time and stories that fold and turn on themselves.
A companion volume, galang 02, will be published in November 2022. galang volumes 01 and 02 are published in collaboration with the Powerhouse museum and Garru Editions.
About the authors
Powerhouse-galang is the name of an Indigenous-led think tank composed of First Nations artists, curators and scholars supported by the Powerhouse museum, Australia’s contemporary museum for excellence and innovation in applied arts and sciences.
Dr Brook Garru Andrew, Wiradjuri/Celtic artist, writer and curator.
Dr Léuli Eshrãghi, Sãmoan/Persian/Cantonese artist, curator and scholar.
Dr Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Sámi scholar and practitioner of duojár.
Lisa Hilli, Papua New Guinea /Australian artist and scholar.
Dr Biung Ismahasan, Taiwanese Indigenous Bunun Nation curator, artist and researcher.
Gail Mabo, Meriam artist, educator and performer.
Mayunkiki, Ainu artist, educator, performer and musician.
More information
Published by Garru Editions and Powerhouse Publishing
Powerhouse Publishing
E: Stephen.todd@maas.museum
W: maas.museum
Garru Editions
E. garrueditions@gmail.com
Sales & distribution Australia
Manic Distribution
P: 03 9380 5337
E: manicex@manic.com.au
April 2022 Hardback 300 x 240mm 224pp
42 colour/30 b+w illustrations RRP: AU$60
ISBN: 978-0-64898-178-7
Purchase
For Europe:
https://www.ideabooks.nl/9780648981787-galang-01
For Australia:
https://www.maas.museum/product-category/book/
2021
Dual/Duel
Dual/Duel is a collaborative artists' book by Brook Andrew and Trent Walter, drawn predominantly from the State Library of Victoria's pictures collection, with interventions from the artists' personal archives. The book's form is a series of juxtaposed image propositions whose assembly forms new relational narratives connecting the artists' cultural perspectives of Wiradjuri/Sri Lankan/Celtic/European with topics of conflict, immigration, hope, confusion,complicity and power amongst image, shape, trickery, concealment and shadow play. This practice of image juxtaposition is prevalent in Andrew's and Walter's artistic and cultural practices which re-define how the world can be reordered and seen. This perspective shifts ideas around building memories, timelines and making visible often devastating histories in ways that can hopefully heal: to imagine new ways to engage and acknowledge.
Dual/Duel creates a new space for looking through often cliché, but specific, images of power and narrative. The artists' book simultaneously creates and examines pictorial connections that explore the implications of these associations to form new narratives about how we might begin to explain the histories they conjure.
Dual/Duel is the result of a Georges Mora Fellowship awarded to the artists in 2014. The publication includes an interview with Maxine Briggs, Koori Librarian at the State Library of Victoria (SLV), Australia, who worked closely with the artists on Australian Indigenous protocols that apply to SLV photographic collections.
Published by Garru Editions and Negative Press, Melbourne, Australia.
Edition of 250 yellow and 250 red. 270mm wide x 360mm high.
174pp printed full colour, spot matt varnish on 160gsm matt art.
The artist book is available at perimeterbooks.com
2020
Tracing Colonial Invisibility:
The Art of Brook Andrew in France
This digital publication is an in-depth analysis of Brook Andrew's exhibition history in France by leading scholars Barbara Glowczewski and Arnaud Morvan, designed by Clemens Habicht.
Available to download here.
