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The Melbourne-based photgrapher, Sonia Payes, has spent two years travelling to 60 contemporary artists' studios and homes - with one notable living as far away as Tuscany! Each of the sixty artists is captured in a large portrait and then receives a further six pages for an essay by a selected author and exciting photographs of them at work in their studios - or simply walking the dog, cooking dinner or climbing a tree! This spectacular large format, 400 page, highly sophisticated publication contains 60 short essays contributed by leading Australian arts writers, critis, and acedemics drawn from across the nation. Intended to showcase the work and studio conditions of leading Australian artists at the 2007 Venice Biennale in June this year, the publication is our most ambitious to date. It is simply stunning.