Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts

Cats have been revered by artists since ancient times for their beauty, grace, independence, and air of mystery. Domesticated, but with a touch of the wild about them, they share our homes and endlessly fascinate us. The Book of the Cat is a cool and quirky collection of feline art and illustration by artists from around the world. Beautifully designed and packaged, the book will appeal to cat lovers of all ages.

Paperback | 160 pages
17.8 x 15.2 cm (7 x 6 in.) 
Publication Date: 2017

Christi Belcourt

Based on Métis artist Christi Belcourt’s painting “Medicines to Help Us,” this innovative and vibrant resource honours the centuries-old healing traditions of Métis women. For this book, Christi Belcourt fuses her evocative artwork with Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and Western Science. With contributions from Métis Elders Rose Richardson and Olive Whitford, as well as key Michif phrases and terminology, Medicines to Help Us is the most accessible resource relating to Métis healing traditions produced to date.

Softcover | 80 pages
15.2 x 22.8 cm (5.9 x 8.9 in.)

Edited by Deanna Bowen

With nearly 500 pages of essays and artist folios, Other Places investigates the historical and contemporary contributions that First Peoples, racialized, and LGBTQ artists and administrators have made to the media in arts in Canada. 

Paperback | 486 pages
19 x 24 cm (7.5 x 9.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2019

Liam Gillick

A Variability Quantifier is an artwork intended to function as an operational weather station. Located on Fogo Island to the north of Newfoundland, it gathers local weather data and is a place for education, reflection, and discussion. A year after the installation of the work Liam Gillick returned to Fogo to make a documentary film about his work. This resulted in two separate films that make use of the same footage. In Variability Quantified we hear Nobel Prize winning climatologist Syukuro Manabe explaining the science of global heating and his pioneering work modeling earth’s climate in the 1960s. In Quantified Variability the artist dramatically altered the natural colors in the footage and set it to a layered soundtrack of automated industrial production. This book is a record of the two films alongside a discussion with art historian Tom McDonough. With earlier projects in Paris, Japan and Australia, Gillick engaged in representing the science of the climate crisis. A Variability Quantifier collects data to feed into the global system extending his artistic elevation of the maths and science of our shared climate emergency.

Bilingual
Softcover | 200 pages
19 x 24 cm (7.5 x 9.5 in.) 
Publication Date: 2025

Diana Nemiroff

From obstacles of bureaucracy to veiled challenges to women in powerful positions, Women at the Helm paints a rich picture of what it takes to lead a major art institution. In her latest book, author and art historian Diana Nemiroff explores a transformative thirty-year period in the history of the National Gallery of Canada through the careers of its first three women directors (Jean Sutherland Boggs, Hsio-yen Shih, and Shirley L. Thomson), detailing each of their unique triumphs and tribulations.

Paperback | 552 pages
85 photos, colour insert
19 x 24 cm (7.5 x 9.5 in)

Moshe Safdie

For Moshe Safdie, the way a space functions is fundamental; he is deeply committed to architecture as a social force for good, believing that any challenge, including extreme population density and environmental distress, can be addressed with solutions that enhance community and uplift the human spirit. In If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture, Safdie recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built—from Habitat in Montreal and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore—and offers a manifesto for the role architecture should play in society.

Hardcover | 368 pages
16 x 23.3 cm (6.2 x 9 in.)
Publication Date: 2022