Linda Morris is an arts and books writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Bob Graham's prize-winning picture book Home in the Rain began as a smudge of pastel colour on a piece of copy paper. "It turned out to be a skyline of hills and then I put some dark cloud over it," he said.
One video documents a man's first sexual experience while another artist has taken hardcore images of his mother.
He exhibited with the likes of Pablo Picasso and Rene Magritte, but Robert Klippel returned to Australia to work from his home in Birchgrove.
On the eastern apron of Cockatoo Island where rusting shipyard cranes mark a century of industry, artist Jun Yang is scoping out an ambitious art project to construct something akin to a modern observatory.
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of a hotel room?
Women account for 70 per cent of art school graduates but that hasn't produced gender parity on the walls of galleries and museums.
A tree grows in Brooklyn but in Sydney it has been tipped on its side and suspended 10 metres above a laneway where once a freshwater stream ran.
An unauthorised biography of Australia's first media magnate wins this year's National Biography Award.
"She considered brighter, vibrant colours better suited to the Australian light, and stimulating to creativity."
Michael Brissenden and Tony Jones have made their publishing debuts with political thrillers themed around international terrorism.
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