Raafat Ishak: Hot Air poetry For more than fifty years

For more than fifty years

Louise Haselton reveals the hidden depths within the everyday and the overlooked

so much as continue to “roll on”

Wrestling with Antipodean ‘alterity’ more than ten years later

Edited by the Triennial's Artistic Director Tony Albert and long-time collaborator Sally Brand

Raafat Ishak: Hot Air poetry For more than fifty yearsHot Air is the first comprehensive book surveying the work of Egyptian born, Naarm Melbourne based artist Raafat Ishak. Rethinking the linearity of the monographic format, Hot Air navigates Ishaks practice through a sequence of themes and motifs that occupy his art: NUDITY SQUARE LANGUAGE AIR SUN BLACK PAINTING ARCHITECTURE. The final chapter, HEIDE, is dedicated to the artists major solo exhibition in the celebrated modernist building at Heide Museum