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Elizabeth Butel, Ken Done, Ken Done: Paintings Drawings Posters and Prints, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1986

Ken Done, Ken Done: Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1988

Ken Done, Ken Done: Australia, Paintings and Drawings 1979 - 1987, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1992         

Noriko Yoshimori, Ken Done’s World: 169 original works featured on the cover of Hanako, Magazine House, Tokyo, 1993

Donna Lee Brien, Camilla Done, Ken Done: Paintings 1990 - 1994, Done Art and Design, Sydney, 1995

Janet McKenzie, Ken Done Sydney - Twenty Years of Paintings, The Ink Group, Sydney, 1999

Janet McKenzie, The Art of Ken Done, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2002

Ken Done, Ken Done: A Life Coloured In, ABC Books / Harper Collins, Sydney, 2016

Ken Done, Camilla Done, Sarah Engledow, Ken Done: Paintings You Probably Haven't Seen, The Ken Done Gallery, Sydney, 2017

Amber Creswell-Bell, A Painted Landscape, Thames & Hudson, Sydney, 2018

Ken Done, Reef, Outback, Sydney and Beach, Thames & Hudson, Sydney, 2020

Ken Done, Amber Creswell-Bell, Ken Done: Art, Design, Life, Thames & Hudson, Sydney, 2020

Bruce Cooper, Max Germanos & Kon Gouriotis, The Clayton Utz Art Partnership: 2017 - 2022, Clayton Utz/3:33 Art Projects/Bandicoot Publishing, Sydney, 2023

Peter Sutton, Dreamings, The Art of Aboriginal Australia, Viking/Pengiun Books, Melbourne, 1988

Max Germaine, Artists and Galleries of Australia, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1990

Nancy Phelan, Mosman Impressions, Mosman Council, Sydney, 1993

Yoshihisa Kinameri, Creation 20, Recruit, Tokyo, 1994

Michaela Richards, The Best Style: Marion Hall Best and Australian Interior Design 1935-1975, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1993

Julie Rollinson, Sue Melville, Australian Art and Artists, Science Press, Sydney, 1996

Sue Walker, Modern Australian Tapestries, The Beagle Press, Melbourne, 2000

Traudi Allen, Cross-currents in Contemporary Australian Art, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2001

Michael Spens, Janet McKenzie, Studio International, Yearbook Special Issue, The Studio Trust, New York, 2007

Jamie Huckbody, Harper’s Bazaar Australian Style, Hearst/ACP, Sydney, 2009

Ian Hoskins, Sydney Harbour: A History, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2009

Nicky Albrechtsen, Fola Solanke, Scarves, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2011

Janet McKenzie, Contemporary Australian Drawing #1, Macmillan, Melbourne, 2012

Thomas Girst, BMW Art Cars, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2014

Sarah Engledow, The Popular Pet Book, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 2016

Amber Creswell-Bell, A Painted Landscape, Thames & Hudson, Sydney, 2018

Tim Rollason, Ken Done: Painting 1980 - 1990, catalogue, City of Caulfield Arts Complex, Caulfield, 1990

Ken Done: Major Works catalogue, Shinsegae Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 1991

Ken Done: Major Exhibition. Japan. 1991, catalogue, The Yomiyuri Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan, 1991

Donna Lee Brien, Direct from Japan: Recent works by Ken Done, catalogue, NSW Regional Galleries, 1991

Donna Lee Brien, Celebration of Nature: The Art of Ken and Judy Done, catalogue, Griffith Regional Art Gallery, Griffith,1992

Donna Lee Brien, Ken Done : Paintings from the Cabin 1979 - 1993, catalogue, The Moore Park Gallery, Sydney, 1993

Donna Lee Brien, A New Decade: Recent work by Ken Done, catalogue, The Moore Park Gallery, Sydney, 1993

Ken Done: Walking through the Cabin Garden, catalogue, Sogetsu Plaza, Tokyo, 1993

Donna Lee Brien, Beneath the Surface: Underwater works by Ken Done, catalogue, The Moore Park Gallery, Sydney, 1993

BMW Art Car Collection: Automobile Art, catalogue, BMW, Munich, 1993

Terence Measham, Anne-marie van de Ven, Yoshihisa Kinameri, Richard Wood, Machi Tawara, Donna Lee Brien, Elizabeth Buzby, Ken Done - the art of design, catalogue, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1994

Donna Lee Brien, Contemporary Ken Done, catalogue, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, 1995

Donna Lee Brien, Haiku and other poems: a touring exhibition, catalogue, Cairns Regional Art Gallery, 1996

Donna Lee Brien, Ken Done à Paris, catalogue, Galerie Scot, Paris, 1996

Janet McKenzie, Cherished Obsessions, catalogue, The Ken Done Gallery, Sydney, 1998

Tony Geddes, Harbouring Sydney Light: The Art of Ken Done, catalogue, The Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, 2000

Michelle Harris, Done Down Under, catalogue, Ellen Kin Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, 2000

Ken Done: On Location, catalogue, One Bush Street, San Francisco, 2001

Peter Christiansen, Janet McKenzie, Ken Done 25 Years at the Beach, catalogue, The Ken Done Gallery, Sydney, 2004

Philip Bacon, Ken Done Selected Works 1980 - 2005, catalogue, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, 2005

Glenn Barkley, Tony Stephens, Attack: Japanese Midget Submarines in Sydney Harbour, catalogue, The Mosman Gallery, Sydney, 2012

Nancy Borlase, Victorian wins $2,500 Blake Prize, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 September 1978.

Terri Dodd, Will the real Ken Done please stand up, Australian Artist, September 1990, 32-37.

Rosa Sheils, On Living: Art, Vogue Living, September 1990, 12.

Fiona McMullin, The exuberant world of Ken Done, Reader’s Digest, March 1991, 26 - 32.

Kate Stead, Heists of fashion: Faking and forgery in the rag trade, The Australian Magazine, June 22 - 23, 1991.

Donna Lee Brien, The visit of an important man from Japan, Modern Painters, April 1992.

Andrew Urban, Portrait of the artist as a businessman, Australia Business Monthly, May 1992, 80 - 83.

Sally J. Cantwell, Ken Done - Direct from Japan, Periphery, May 1992, 18 - 20.

Donna Lee Brien, Ken Done and Japan, Oz Arts, Issue 4, 1992, 7 -13.

Donna Lee Brien, Success through creativity, BMW Magazine, June 1992, 116-117.

Anne-Maree Moodie, A Different shade of Done, The Australian Magazine, 6 - 7 March 1993, 14 - 21.

Ken Done, A Favourite Painter: Maestro of Colour - Henri Matisse, Look, February 1993.

Elwyn Lynn, Calm amongst the Frenzy, The Australian, Weekend Review, April 3-4 1993.

Candida Baker, Who says Ken can’t?, The Age, September 11, 1993, 14.

Meryl Ryan, The Done thing, Artists and Illustrators Monthly (UK), September 1993, 38-40.

Kimberley Ivory, A Celebration of Life, Medical Observer, 13 May, 1994, s4-s5.

Ken Done, Ken Done by Ken Done, The Sydney Weekly, 24-30 May, 1994.

Visual Feast, Australian Artist, June 1994, 14-16.

John McDonald, What Ken Did - the Life and Soul of a Dynamo Artist, The Sydney Morning Herald, 7 December 1994.

Joanna Mendelssohn, The Done Thing, The Bulletin, 10 January 1995, 85.

Ken Done, Turkish Delight, Vogue, March 1995, 196-199.

Peter Anderson, Ken Done's image problem, Art Monthly, November 1995, 4-6.

Enrica Longo, Well Done, The Age, 6 July 1996.

Marcus Casey, Hung, Drawn and Quartered, The Daily Telegraph, 12 December 1998.

Lenore Nicklin, Elusive Prize, The Bulletin, 29 December 1998.

Clare Masters, Been There Done That, Sydney Weekly, 5 October 1999, 13-15.

Kate de Brito, Done’s Big Love, The Daily Telegraph, 18 September 1999, 123.

Chris Burke, Harbour Master, Burke’s Backyard Magazine, November 1999, 38.

Mallory Holland, Ken Done, Country Looks, Summer 1999, 114

Ken Done’s Show Stops The Traffic in London, Australian Artist, September 2000, 6.

Will Skidmore, Been there, Done that - sold the T-shirt, Evening Standard, July 14 2000.

Juliet Herd, UK loves the Done thing, The Australian, July 14 2000.

Sue Hicks, ‘Fitting and timely tribute’ to Done, The Mosman Daily, September14 2000.

Wendy Caccetta, Been here, Done that, The West Australian, November 21 2000.

Janet McKenzie, Letter from Stockholm, Studio International, e-journal, www.studio-international.com.uk, October 2001.

Leo Schofield, Been There Done that with Style, The Sunday Telegraph, May 12 2002, 128

Melisande Clarke, Young Dones, Sunday Life, December 1 2002, 20

Tiffany Jones, What hasn’t Ken Done?, Artist’s Palette, #24, 44

Carrie Kablean, Ken Done, Instyle, 2003, 15-22

Smart Art Biz, Dynamic Small Business, June 1 2003, 30-32

Fiona Brown, He’s done it again, The Mosman Daily, June 12 2003, 27

Martin Knelman, Pop art view of Sydney Harbour, Toronto Star, June 1 2003, D3

Anne-Marie Van de Ven, Woven Impressions, Powerline, Spring 2003, 16

Larry Writer, Colour My World, Australian Womens Weekly, October 1 2003, 146-9

Karina Machado, All Done, Who Weekly, November 3 2003, 102

Sean Francis Martin, Ken Done, The Commuter Magazine, March 2004, 13-19

Melissa Hoyer, Brightly Done, The Sunday Telegraph, June 27 2004, 132

Lyndall Crisp, No need to hide, Australian Financial Review, July 1 2004, 43

Ken’s views from the beach, The Mosman Daily, July 1 2004, 31

Cara Davis, Done’s vision from Mosman, Sydney Weekly, July 21 2004, 31

The Done thing, The Wentworth Courier, July 28 2004, 32

Richard Zachariah, Hue and Cry, The Weekend Australian Magazine, August 28-9 2004, 14-16

Rosemary Sorensen, In Art Ken still cuts it, The Courier Mail, July 2-3, 2005

Michael Reid, The Art Oracle, Good Weekend, 2005

Rex Butler, Pop Art with a Tan, The Courier Mail, July 13, 2005

Ron Banks, Done Well, The Western Australian, Sept 10, 2005

Joerg Andersch, Images to Wonder At, The Hobart Mercury, Dec 16, 2006

Kannan Chandran, Painting Outside The Box, Wealth, August, 2007

Sarah Engledow, Donated Duo, Portrait, 33, Spring, 2009

John Huxley, Harbour vistas, The Sydney Morning Herald, January 1, 2010

Alex Weiland, Ken Done - Australian by Design, Acclaim Issue 25, 2011

Maurice O’Riordan, Look Both Ways, Art Monthly, December, 2011

Hannah Tattersall, Capturing the market in Australiana, The Australian Financial Review, September 17, 2010

John McDonald, The 2011 Archibald Prize, The Sydney Morning Herald, April 6, 2011

Georgina Safe, Colourful life as the worlds of art and fashion collide, The Sydney Morning Herald, October 1, 2011

Kerrie Davies, What lies beneath, Northside, November, 2011

Chris Urankar, Done Deal, Instyle, November, 2011

Nick O’Malley, Palettes loaded, lines drawn, The Sydney Morning Herald, December 27, 2011

Michael Fitzgerald, The Resurrection of Ken Done, The Sydney Magazine, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 2012

Amelia Stein, Ken Done - Soft Pink Truth, Apartamento #12, 2014

Vesna Poljak, Great southern land, The Australian Financial Review, July 12-13 2014, 18-19

Natasha Dragun, Life in Colour, Style Setter Series #5, Sydney Style Seeker #7 Summer 2014

Lucy Feagins, Ken Done, The Design Files, 25 July 2014

Laura Bannister, In Command, Museum Magazine Issue 1, September 2014

Jacqui Taffel, Ken Done Turns to Theatre Design, Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 September 2014

Kate Crawford, Next Stage in a Long Career, Mosman Daily, 16 October 2014

Rod Bennett, Done the Unexpected, Manly Daily, 17 October 2014

Lee Suckling, Done by the sea, Harbourview Magazine, October 2014

Sammy Preston, Ken Done's Emerald City, Broadsheet, 3 November 2014

Nick Galvin, Ken Done's electric reef series boldly celebrates Australia Day, Sydney Morning Herald, The Melbourne Age & The Canberra Times, cover artworks and articles, 24 January 2015

Kylie Walker, My Country Childhood - Ken Done, Country Style, March 2015

Ché Parker, Ken Done - Painter, House & Studio, Chinamans Beach, Freunde von Freunden, 8 June 2015

A.H Cayley, "We were very proud of being Australian" - An interview with Ken Done, #TheRocks, 1 July 2015

Jo-Anne Hui, To Sydney With Love, Active Retirees, August 2015

Nicky Lobo, Artist in Place, habitus, #29, 2015

Jason Grant, Ken Done, www.MrJasonGrant.com, March 15 2016

Ken Done on painting: ‘Art is a very overused word’, The Australian, March 26 2016

Monica Tan, Ken Done: sell-out, one-hit wonder, or Australia’s most underrated artist?, The GuardianMarch 29 2016

Elizabeth Fortescue, Artist Ken Done’s new book places the emphasis firmly on the central role of family in his life and work, The Daily Telegraph, April 4 2016

Johanna McDiarmid, Artist Ken Done on building the brand that became a cultural icon, ABC News, April 8 2016

Penny Modra (podcast), Ken Done, The Wheeler Centre, April 14 2016

Sally Wilson, Man Candy: Ken Done, The Planthunter, May 11 2016

Scott Bevan, Artist Ken Done paints the biting beauty of Antarctica, The Australian, May 26 2016

Richard Christiansen, Richard Christiansen's Favourite things, Vogue Living, May / June 2016

Kate Crawfrod, Mosman artist Ken Done converts his trip to Antarctica into a cool new exhibition, Daily Telegraph, June 3 2016

Artist Profile, Paintings from Antarctica, Artist ProfileJune 5 2016

Eliza O'Hare, Mr Bright Side, Harpers Bazaar, Sept 2016

National Portrait Gallery in Canberra adorned with paintings of pets 3, ABC News, November 2016

Sally Pryor, Dogs get star billing in The Popular Pet Show at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Sydney Morning Herald, November 2016

Noelle Faulkner, Lose yourself in a freesia/ a conversation with Ken Done, Buro 24/7 Australia, November 2016

David Smiedt, Ken Done Iconic Artist, GQ Australia, December 2016

Caroline Tang, Done to delight in new work of art, Mosman Daily, September 2017

Ken Done/ the paintings you probably haven't seen – in pictures, The Guardian, October 2017 

Anna Usher, Ken Done, Mosman Collective, November 2017 

Elizabeth Fortescue, Ken Done stays young at art for UNICEF World Children’s Day, Daily Telegraph, November 2017

Uncover the unknown paintings of Ken Done, COVETED, January 2018

Sammy Preston, Colour Therapy, Broadsheet, February 2018

Elicia Murray, Tim'Rosso' Ross reveals Australia's overlooked design gems in debut exhibition, Domain, February 2018

Annalie Usher, Exclusive- Ken Done judges record entries in the Mosman Youth Art Prize, Mosman Collective, March 2018

Solua Middleton, Julie Clift, How Ken Done's bold, colourful style showed the world that Australia was a 'sophisticated place' ABC Gold Coast 30 March 2019 www.abc.net.au

Shuizuka Hayashi, Ken Done - Painting skill of 77 years old, expression style of 7 years old, Hiyori Techo 12 mook, April 2019

Lucy Feagins, TDF Talks With Iconic Australian Artist Ken Done, The Design Files, September 2019 Podcast, thedesignfiles.net

Steve Meacham, Celebrate Ken Done's contagious love of colour, Sydney Morning Herald, January 2020

Helen McKenzie, Artist Profile: Ken Done, Art Edit, March 2020, artedit.com.au

Janet McKenzie, ‘We white blokes could learn from collaboration in Aboriginal art’, studio international, May 2020, studiointernational.com

Amber Creswell Bell, Art Icon - Ken Done, Inside Out, March 2021

Ken Done, Lodestars Anthology, Australia edition, 2021

Glynis Traill-Nash, Ken Done and Romance Was Born collaborate for Australian Fashion Week, The Australian, 8 May 2022

Dani Maher, Romance Was Born’s ‘Done Zone’ Fashion Week runway takes Australiana under the sea, Harpers Bazaar, 9 May 2022

Luke Leitch, Romance Was Born AUSTRALIA RESORT 2023, Vogue Australia, 15 May 2022

Nick Galvin, Why legendary artist Ken Done is painting over his old pictures, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 May 2022

Neha Kale, The very nice Ken Done: ‘I’ll never be as good as a five-year-old’, The Guardian, 22 May 2022

Dan Stapleton, Artist Ken Done continues to bring his colour-happy and graphic vision to life, Vogue Australia, 5 July 2022,

Gina Fairley, Colour safe art: Rosie Deacon and Ken Done, ArtsHub, 11 August 2022

Kelly Burke, ‘Crack a smile’: Ken Done and Rosie Deacon bring popping colour to Ben Quilty’s new regional gallery, The Guardian, 13 August 2022

Elizabeth Flux, ‘Art should give you pleasure’: Inside the colourful world of Ken Done, The Age, October 18, 2022

Alice Birrell, Feel-good designs triumph at Fashion Laureate, The Australian, 23 November 2022

Melissa Singer, ‘I’ve been working hard for a long time’: Ken Done honoured at Australia’s fashion Oscars, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 November 2022

Michael Pelly, ‘Artist Ken Done finds ‘similarities’ in partnership with lawyers’, Australian Financial Review, 24 November 2022

Claudio Kirac, Lila Theodoros, ‘No rules. Lovely colours’ Paradiso, issue 22, 2023

Jaimee Vilela, ‘Raise A Bundaberg To These Australian Icons’, Australian InStyle, February 2023

Elizabeth Clarke, ‘Ken Done on the Ningaloo Reef’, Havenist, 24 February 2023

Stephanie Bunbury, ‘Larrikins, louts and Paddle Pops: the Australian icons leaving their mark’, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 March 2023

Jenny Valentish, ‘How kitsch became cool: Australiana exhibition celebrates Dame Edna, Ken Done and melted ice-creams’, The Guardian, 18 March 2023

Laura Agnew, ‘Portrait Of A Muse’, InStyle Australia, March 2023

Peter FitzSimons, 'Art ... is about the soul of the country and must be looked after’, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 April 2023

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