Phosphorescence

Julia Baird is a Sydney-based author and journalist. She writes columns for the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and the ABC. She is a former co-host of The Drum on ABC TV, senior editor of Newsweek in New York, Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University, and op-ed contributor for the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Her first book, Media Tarts, was based on her PhD in History about the portrayal of female politicians. Victoria, her biography of Queen Victoria, was published globally to critical acclaim and was one of the New York Times’ top ten books of 2016. Phosphorescence was a multi-award-winning international bestseller. Bright Shining was shortlisted for the Australian Book Industry Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Julia lives near the sea with her two children and an abnormally large dog.

Cressida Campbell is among Australia’s most significant contemporary artists working with painting and printmaking. Combining keen observation with a delicacy of line, Campbell’s woodblock paintings and prints capture the overlooked beauty of the everyday. Since studying painting and drawing at East Sydney Technical College (now known as the National Art School) in Sydney and woodblock printing at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo, Cressida Campbell has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and internationally. Her work is held in prestigious public collections in Australia and overseas, including at the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artbank, and the British Museum in London.

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