Private splendours

September 2008, no. 304

Empires & Splendour: The David Roche collection by Christopher Menz and Robert Reason

Art Gallery of South Australia, $120 hb, 276 pp

Private splendours

September 2008, no. 304

The art gallery of South Australia has assembled a cast of expert contributors for the catalogue that accompanied its recent exhibition of European decorative arts. Empires & Splendour: The David Roche Collection, is the most expensive publication to date from AGSA and was published with assistance from David Roche.

Elisabeth Holdsworth

Elisabeth Holdsworth won the inaugural Calibre Essay Prize in 2007 for her essay ‘An Die Nachgeborenen: For Those Who Come After’. She was born in the Netherlands and migrated to Australia with her parents in 1959. Educated in Melbourne, she had a long career in the Department of Defence. Her most recent novel is Those Who Come After (Picador, 2011). Her ABR Raft Fellowship essay ‘If This Is a Jew’ was published in November 2017.