Roland Peelman
Anthony Browell and Antony Jeffrey
Hardback, 110 pages, $39.95
JULY 2021 RELEASE
ISBN: 9781922449597
Roland, thanks for your generous spirit, your embracing heart, and
your ever-exploring mind. We are blessed to have you with us! -- John
Davis, CEO Australian Music Centre
“Anthony Browell's photographs are not just striking in themselves,
they also tell you so much about the subject, Roland Peelman: his
passion, commitment, sense of fun and ability to be fully in the moment
when making music. This perception is amply supported by Antony
Jeffrey's words, which provide insights, anecdotes and highly engaging
snippets of history tracing the career of an exceptional musical mind”
John Shand, Walkley Award-winning music writer, The Sydney Morning Herald.
“This portrait ... captures the many complex facets of one of
Australian music’s most important living artists, ... whose diverse
roles as a cultural custodian enrich the world, and our understanding of
it"
- John Davis, former CEO Australian Music Centre
"A beautifully written coffee table book and a valuable way of
getting to know a man we all would like to get to know better. [The]
...testimonials give thoughtful third person insights into the man who
is passionate about Australian music, women composers, Indigenous
culture and the technicolour social fabric that makes up how we live as
Australians"
- Clinton White, Limelight Magazine
Anthony Browell and Antony Jeffrey have long been friends and
admirers of Roland Peelman and his work. Anthony Browell has
photographed him in and out of the Canberra International Music Festival
many times, while Antony Jeffrey has worked with him at the embryonic
Loud Mouth Music Festival in Newcastle in 2001/2 and subsequently as
manager of The Song Company.
Their collaboration in this book is intended to give a portrait of
Roland Peelman as he is today in the middle of an incredibly rich and
varied life as musician, festival director and friend of many. Antony
Jeffrey explains: “This is a book about Roland’s wide-ranging
achievements from the perspective of friends and creative people he has
worked with. Roland has such vision and passion for helping create and
perform music at the highest level, yet he lacks the ego that usually
goes with success. Our hope is that his achievements can be celebrated
by the widest possible audience.”
“I have photographed many artists and musicians,” says Anthony Browell,
“but rarely anyone as expressive as Roland. There is a quality about his
gestures, his movement and his facial expressions that seems to embody
the music he is performing. I know of no musician with quite his
intensity.”
Anthony Browell lives in Sydney, and has spent a life in and out of
photography. Working in portraiture, advertising, editorial,
architectural as well as personal photography, has enabled him to
experience being around a wide variety of amazing and talented people.
Recently this has included musicians of many genres. His other interests
include inland paddle-steamers of Australia, his family, and large
format pinhole cameras.
Antony Jeffrey has enjoyed a long career in the arts. He was the first
director of the Australia Council Music Board, and first general manager
of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He has worked in senior roles for
many other arts companies and in the corporate sector. He has recorded
over 100 interviews with artists and people associated with the arts,
many of which resulted in his book Many Faces of Inspiration (2011).
These days he organises and leads music tours abroad as well as
indulging in writing when he has time.
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