Australia’s most talked about contemporary artist and a figure of increasing international stature, Richard Bell describes himself as “more an activist than an artist,” and indeed much of his work is politically charged, addressing issues such as the racist Australian culture within which he finds himself...

Encompassing a third of the earth’s surface and more than a quarter of all human languages and cultures, the vast expanse of the Pacific is home to an astonishing richness of artistic traditions. While the forms vary dramatically from one culture to the next, one of the central themes that unifies the diverse artistic traditions of the Pacific is the universality of the human image...