With our latest cover artist Maria Kozic painting the fantasy of feminine perfection alongside the reality of violence, our November/December issue chronicles an Australian summer in which many women artists are having striking, absorbing showings. We have five women artists writing on Louise Bourgeois; we profile Tacita Dean, Betty Muffler and Sundari Carmody; step inside Kirtika Kain’s home studio; and look at how fairy tales, through artists like Kiki Smith and Tracey Moffatt, offer radical forms of female transgression.