May 6, 2019

When an artist and an author meet

Sydney artist Evert Ploeg has been illustrating book covers for children’s author, poet and publisher Geoffrey McSkimming since the late 1980s but had only spent limited time with the Cairo Jim chronicles author. When his daughters were around 9 and 6, “we started going to book launches” as they were into McSkimming’s Phyllis Wong books […]

Image Credit: Translations, Jumaana Abdu Poor Dirt Islanders, Winnie Dunn The Temperature, Katerina Gibson Vortex, Rodney Hall Australian Gospel, Lech Blaine

Image Credit: John Maxwell Coetzee by Oscar Gonzales Fuentes / Shutterstock

Image Credit: Photo courtesy of Cotton On