Vivienne Binns : on and through the surface / Merryn Gates ; Helen Hughes ; Anneke Jaspers ; Terence Maloon ; Hannah Mathews ; Kyla McFarlane ; Penny Peckham ; Quentin Sprague ; Gemma Western.

Published to accompany and exhibition held at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 05 February-14 April, 2022 and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 15 July-25 September, 2022.

Includes fully illustrated plate and list of works sections, five commissioned essays, one interview, historical writings by the artist and a detailed biography and bibliography.

First edition of 1000.

'Project supported by the Copyright agency's Cultural fund and by the Creative Partnerships Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund'--imprint.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia is assisted by the New South Wales Government through Arts NSW and by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts-funding and advisory body, and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. The MCA was established by the University of Sydney through the JW Power Bequest, with assistance from the NSW Government.--imprint.

Vivienne Binns is an important and singular figure in the history of Australian visual art. Her groundbreaking and experimental work has tested the philosophical underpinnings of art itself, both pre-empting and participating in the most significant cultural discourses of our times: from women's social and sexual liberation to Australia's regional identity. Her outstanding, multifaceted and sustained contribution to Australian art was recognized in 2021 with an Australia Council Award for Visual Arts. Vivienne Binns: On and Through the Surface is the first monograph on the artist's six-decade career and accompanies a major survey presented at Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, in 2022. Edited by Anneke Jaspers and Hannah Mathews, the publication charts the dynamism of Binns's conceptual and material investigations with an extensive, full-colour plate section; new essays by writers and art historians Terence Maloon, Kyla McFarlane, Gemma Weston, Quentin Sprague and Helen Hughes; a 2021 interview by Merryn Gates; a detailed chronology by Penny Peckham; and historic interviews and texts with and by the artist. Design by Stuart Geddes and Žiga Testen.