Tellurian Research Press

Independent publishers of art, hand-made and culturally significant books.

WELCOME to Tellurian Research Press. We represent Australian visionary and self taught artists, as well as artists and writers creating culturally significant works. Founded in 2015 and based in Melbourne, Australia, Tellurian Research Press offers an exciting range of rare outsider art (or art brut, naive art) books as well as new books featuring the art of Sylvia Convey and Tony Convey. These titles include SPIRIT LINES (2017) and Double Vision (2015).

Also available through Tellurian Research Press is a selection of STOARC publications including Roger Ballen's Theatre of the Mind by Colin Rhodes, and Issues 1, 2 and 3 of the refereed journal of outsider art (or art brut), ELSEWHERE.

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We publish art, hand-made and culturally significant books. We invite you to browse our catalogue here.

Sylvia Convey
This is 'Mountain Man' (detail) by Sylvia Convey. Find out more about Sylvia and her visionary work here.

Tony Convey
This is 'Bullhead Diary' (detail) by Tony Convey. Find out more about Tony and his outsider art here.

Recent visionary and outsider art release:

SPIRIT LINES

"These are wild works, in the sense that they come from places unconcerned with artistic fashion or desire for cultural assimilation." - Colin Rhodes

More information here
Read a review of SPIRIT LINES featured in Art Almanac

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Our list

Tellurian Research Press

Double Vision - $50.00

SPIRIT LINES - $60.00

Enchantment - $12.50

Hypergraphica - $12.50

STOARC

ELSEWHERE Issue 1 - $15.00

ELSEWHERE Issue 2 - $15.00

ELSEWHERE Issue 3 - $15.00

Roger Ballen's Theatre of the Mind
by Colin Rhodes - $30.00

Rare books

Australian Outsiders - $40.00

EARTH, SKIN, HEART - $40.00

Double Vision: A Shared Journey

From the Introduction by Colin Rhodes:

"Journeys are acts of travelling from one place to another. Tony and Sylvia Convey I fancy, met at an intersection in the previously parallel roads of their lives, which then spun out like a vortex with neither beginning nor end. Their practices, their thoughts, their very lives are indissolubly intermeshed. In the spirit of the surrealist trouvaille, I would like to think that Breton's words in L'Amour fou might serve as a parting statement, as though from them:
The brisk wind carrying us along may never die down."
Read an extract here.

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Our news

07 May 2018
Sacrededge Festival, Queenscliff, Victoria: Tony Convey has won this year's 'best exploration of festival theme's award with his painting, Seeds Of A New Knowing. Congratulations to Tony and to the other award winners. To find out more, and to see Tony's winning painting, click here.

02 May 2018
It's almost time for this year's Clunes Booktown Festival (5 and 6 May)! We will have a selection of art, design and literature titles for sale, as well as Tellurian Research Press and STOARC books, all at a special price for May: Double Vision: $50.00, SPIRIT LINES: $60.00, or purchase both for $100.00; Roger Ballen's Theatre of the Mind: $30.00 and Issues 1-3 of ELSEWHERE, $15.00 per issue. It really will be a great weekend for book lovers. We hope to see you there.

20 March 2018
We will post updates on Facebook and Instagram about our travels to Tasmania to see the Museum of Everything exhibition at MONA. It features more than 2,000 art objects selected and curated by the Museum of Everything -- touted as "the world's first wandering institution for the untrained, unintentional, undiscovered and unclassifiable artists of the , twentieth and twenty-first centuries." About the exhibition. About the artists.

16 March 2018
On 5 and 6 May we will be selling a selection of art books at this year's Clunes Booktown Festival. Held in the beautiful town of Clunes in Victoria, the Clunes Booktown Festival attracts thousands of booklovers each year. We will have Tellurian Research Press and STOARC books for sale, as well as a hand-picked selection of art, design and literature titles. Books will include DOUBLE VISION, SPIRIT LINES, Roger Ballen's Theatre of the Mind (you may know Roger Ballen from his association with Die Antwoord, the South African hip hop group), Issues 1-3 of the refereed journal of outsider art (or art brut), ELSEWHERE, as well as books on photography, contemporary art, art theory, visual culture, outsider art, art brut, folk art and visionary art. It promises to be a great weekend. We hope to see you there!

12 February 2018
This year we're embarking on a new journey - Tellurian Research Press Shorts, or TRP Shorts (for short). These will be beautifully produced books featuring the works of visionary artist, Sylvia Convey and self taught artist, Tony Convey. This book series will also showcase the artworks of some of Australia's forgotten self taught or art brut artists. Stay tune for more...

5 December 2017
The launch of SPIRIT LINES on 4 DEC 2017 at Collected Works Bookshop was a fantastic evening of celebrating outsider art and visionary art as well as small press publishing in one of Melbourne's favourite independent bookstores. A big thank you to our dear friend, Colin Rhodes who gave a most wonderful launch speech, and to Kris Hemensley for his support, and for making it all happen. And to everybody who attended - thanks so much for celebrating the publication of SPIRIT LINES with us, a project very close to the hearts of all involved.

"I was a voice and I was every voice and we seemed to be suspended on a shining cloud high above the mundane world." - TONY CONVEY

Creativity reveals the deep connection between mind and matter. It is a complex blend of motivation and inspiration, and sustains me in my solitary search for meaning. Through image making I create an enigmatic and alternative face to our culture. Visionary Art reveals our preconceptions and prejudices, which at the same time, are disturbing as well as provocative - Sylvia Convey, 1985

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