Michael Denholm - Writer, Tasmania, Australia

Michael Denholm is the author of:

• The Winnowing of the Grain, Art and Craft Magazines in Australia, 1963-1996

• In The Vineyard of Art, the Story of Art and Tasmania, a History (six volumes)

• A three volume autobiography

Trusting in Providence, an Autobiography

The Almost Complete Death of Art Criticism, Combating Mediocrity, Stupidity and Ignorance at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century

Faith Moves Mountains, Creating a Monument Set in Stone, The Diary of a Superfluous Man in a Nightmare 'Society', Struggling to Survive and Triumph in the Penal Colony

• Criticising the Critics, Art and Craft Criticism and Art and Craft History in Australia, Post 1950 (two volumes)

• Revelation of the Sacred in Australian Literature in the Case of Randolph Stow, Patrick White, Francis Webb and Harold Stewart

• An Uncompromising Moralist, the Art, Life and Times of Robert Boynes

• The Literature of Tasmania, a History, Parts 1 and 2

• Craft and Tasmania, A History

• The Critical Tradition, A History of Criticism of Australian Literature

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He has a Masters degree in art history from the Australian National University and has written articles on art for such magazines as Art and Australia, Art Monthly Australia, Australian Art Collector, Craft Arts International, Imprint and Print Quarterly. 

Since the early 1990s he has been writing a nine-volume history of Australian art and literature and related studies that include a history of Australian art and craft criticism and Australian art and craft history, a history of criticism of Australian literature, a study of revelation in Australian literature, a six-volume history that tells the story of art in the history of Tasmania, a history of craft and Tasmania and a history of the literature of Tasmania.

Read more on his CV.

Further information about this author is available from AUSTLIT and Trove.

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Among his other achievements

• Author of a two-volume history of small press publishing in Australia and of over 170 published articles, interviews and reviews
• A founder and co-editor of Island Magazine for a decade and co-editor, with Andrew Sant, of First Rights, A Decade of Island Magazine (Greenhouse, Melbourne, 1989)
• Curator, Australian Special Research Collection, University College Library, Australian Defence Force Academy, 1989-1993
• Helped found the Salamanca Arts Festival, the Tasmanian Writers Union, Twelvetrees Publishing Company and Writers at Tilleys
• Awarded Master of Arts in art history, Australian National University, Canberra, 1994
• A director of Twelvetrees Publishing Company that published six books including Effects of Light, The Poetry of Tasmania, edited by Margaret Scott and Vivian Smith, and Vicki Raymond's Holiday Girls that was awarded the British Commonwealth Poetry Prize, from 500 entries, for the best first time book published in the British Commonwealth in 1986.

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The writer writes, the sculptor sculpts (Rilke on Rodin)

The hero is he who is immovably centred (Emerson)