Self-Knowledge Publisher / Australian Galleries Patricia Piccinini’s imaginative and startlingly

Patricia Piccinini’s imaginative and startlingly life-like artworks surprise and enchant with their fantastic rendering of the near future — a world in which DNA editing is commonplace

• a selection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands missions and reserves established from 1838 to the closure of the last mission in 1987

Packed with works that are questioning and provocative

and knowledge represented speak to both deep time and contemporary experiences—bringing into focus the importance of water to our cultural health and our capacity for resilience

sculpture and decorative art – making it possible to assess what can (and cannot) be done in certain media

Self-Knowledge Publisher / Australian Galleries Patricia Piccinini’s imaginative and startlinglyIn Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: Know Yourself. Self knowledge matters so much because it is only on the basis of an accurate sense of who we are that we can make reliable decisions particularly around love and work. This new essay book takes us on a journey into our deepest, most elusive selves and arms us with a set of tools to understand our