Written by exhibition curator, Brian Andrews Published by Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery A comprehensive study of Pugin’s Australian oeuvre, centred around over 280 items including furniture, embroidered silk textiles, carved stonework, metalwork, books, paintings and engravings, architectural drawings and photographs, as well as original design drawings and the items manufactured from them. Each work is described, analysed, illustrated and set within its wider social and artistic context. Click here to purchase online

ASSESSORS COMMENTS
Creating a Gothic Paradise: Pugin at the Antipodes

'Struck me as wonderfully original and a seminal work. We all know that one aspect of the British empire was the spread to different parts of the world of the high and low Anglican church and its ritual (or lack of it). No one up to now has examined the aesthetic aspects of this spread of Anglican – or English – Catholicism.'

'In the case of Pugin, we are looking at one who saw the prime consideration to be ’catholic’ rather than 'Anglican' or 'Roman'. His Catholicism might fairly be said to have been primarily 'Anglican'.'

'Short-listing this work advertises what should be a crucial point of this prize: namely, that British art is not just about Britain per se.’

'An extraordinary thing to do, not just in itself but to do so beautifully and effectively, with scrupulous scholarship and care. Outstandingly designed, edited and produced.'

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