Susan McCulloch
Co-director of McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books, Susan McCulloch has been a book publisher and art writer since 1978. Born in London, she arrived in Australia as a child and was brought up at Shoreham, Victoria, in a house much-visited by leading international and Australian artists, writers, academics, critics and many others. She studied singing at Melbourne University Conservatorium of Music, was also an anti-war activist and in 1978 became a book publisher with her own independent book publishing company.
Since 1980 she has combined book publishing with writing on the arts for major Australian press including The Age, the Bulletin, the Melbourne Herald, and many other journals and magazines. She was The Australian newspaper's visual arts writer 1994-2003 and its national art critic 2003-2004.
She has managed McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art since the late 1980s and has been its co-author for its 1994 and 2006 editions.
She has a longstanding passionate interest in Aboriginal culture, has written widely on the subject and travels as often as possible to the many art-producing communities throughout Australia. Her book, Contemporary Aboriginal Art; a guide to the rebirth of an ancient culture, (1999, 2001) has become a classic reference work on the subject.
In 2003 she established the publishing company Aus Art Editions (now McCulloch & McCulloch Australian Art Books) with her daughter Emily to research, write and publish the Encyclopedia and a range of other books on Australian indigenous and other visual arts. She continues to write further books and reviews for The Australian Financial Review, Australian Art Collector and other journals and magazines.
Emily McCulloch Childs
The co-director of McCulloch & McCulloch, Emily is a writer, publisher and curator. Born in Melbourne in 1976, she grew up partly at her grandparent’s house on the Mornington Peninsula, an old cottage full of books and art, much of which was produced by family and friends such as Arthur Boyd. Her education in the arts occurred here with the McCulloch family.
She assisted in the family endeavours of writing, publishing and art from an early age, giving her first gallery tour to visitors to the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (where her grandfather was founding director) at the age of four, and like her mother before her, assisted with the Encyclopedia as a teenager.
Emily studied Music and English at La Trobe University, graduating with honours in 1998. She has worked in publishing companies and newspapers in London, art galleries in Melbourne, written for art magazines including Australian Art Collector, Antiques & Art, and The Scene, was on the panel for Art Melbourne 06 Off the Wall, and assisted in curating Clean Ocean Foundation’s massive art charity auction Hang 12.
Since 2003 Emily has worked in collaboration with her mother, with whom she co-wrote and published the 4th Edition of McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. Her interest in Aboriginal Desert art has led to her travelling to many remote communities around Australia and conducting extensive research in this area. Her upcoming books include the new edition of Susan’s best selling book Contemporary Aboriginal Art, as well as the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal women’s art, Singing the Country, also written with Susan, and a survey of major collector Pat Corrigan’s collection, entitled New Beginnings: Classic Paintings from the Corrigan Collection of 21st Century Aboriginal Art, which is scheduled for release in November 2008.
Rée Izett
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Rée Izett is the publicist for McCulloch & McCulloch.
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Marcelle Spangaro
Administrator
Marcelle joined McCulloch and McCulloch in 2006, and is the adminstrator for the company. She co-ordinates the online sales of McCulloch & McCulloch books, and assists in many other aspects of administration.
Sandra Nobes
Book Designer
Sandra Nobes is an award-winning freelance book designer. She was shortlisted in the APA 54th Annual Book Design Awards, and her design of the latest edition of McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art was consistently noted in reviews, such as Age art critic Peter Hill's, who observed that it was Sandra's 'unobtrusive design' that made the book 'a real standout'. She is well-known as a children's book designer, designing the Tashi series, (whose author Anna Fienberg has called her the 'Goddess of Design'), as well as many non-fiction titles. Her company, Tou-Can Design, was founded with her partner, a children's book illustrator. Her latest book with McCulloch & McCulloch is The Heart of Everything, which has already drawn praise for its beautiful design.
Anne Runhardt
Anne is a fine art consultant who assists McCulloch & McCulloch with events and projects. She has been working in the art business for over 15 years, mainly in the international commercial gallery and auction business. She studied at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where she graduated with an MA in art history, with a specialisation in modern and contemporary art.
Since relocating to Melbourne in 2001, she has worked for an international auction house and for a renowned Aboriginal art dealer and collector, before establishing her own business as art consultant & curator. Anne works with a team of highly skilled art professionals, writers and curators.
