Sydney artist Peter Kingston was a Pop artist in the 1970s and has been exhibiting his work in Sydney and New York since 1978. His latest artist book, Sheilas — a companion to his 2018 collection Gents — contains portraits of prominent women whom Kingston sees as strong and inspirational. The 31 portraits are linocut prints in Sakura inks on Iwaki Mulberry paper. Kingston constructed a custom-made wooden box to house his works and each portrait is accompanied by an anecdote or quotation related to its subject.Kingston’s work is held by major Australian galleries, libraries and museums, and in Belgium, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

Peter Kingston on Ita Buttrose:

Ita grew up in a family of extroverts. She became one of the most recognisable personalities in the country dispensing no nonsense wholesome good advice in all forms of the media. She is also my cousin and when I went up to the top floor of the ABC to draw her portrait she was the only one there. It looked lonely at the top.